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Unintended Consequences: A Critical Review of Child Support Enforcement

The Independent Review

Spring 2023

The Spring 2023 issue of The Independent Review is now available!

In this issue, from Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall: “How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite”: capture the media, open the fiscal floodgates, prepare citizens to sacrifice liberties, skirt international law, and elevate fear levels when faced with failure.

Also in this issue: monetary policy during the Great Depression and Great Recession; a critical review of child support enforcement; labor rights in Brazil; obituary of economist Geoffrey Brennan; and more!

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Editor:
Robert M. Whaples

Co-Editors:
Christopher J. Coyne
Gregory J. Robson
Diana W. Thomas

Founding Editor:
Robert Higgs

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Spring 2023 Issue Contents

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Articles

Crisis and Credit Allocation: The Effect of Ideology on Monetary Policy during the Great Depression and the Great Recession

By James L. Caton

The View of Knowledge: An Institutional Theory of Differences in Educational Quality

By Magnus Henrekson, Johan Wennström

Unintended Consequences: A Critical Review of Child Support Enforcement

By Clifford F. Thies, John Winn

The Creation of Knowledge in Society: Waste Defined by Property and Exchange

By Art Carden, Rosolino A. Candela

Power to the People? Lobbying for Labor Rights in Brazil’s National Constituent Assembly

By Gabriel F. Benzecry

Instilling Duties above Instilling Rights: Two Features of Adam Smith’s Talk of Justice and Liberty

By Daniel B. Klein

The Bright and Shiny Soul of Geoffrey Brennan (1944–2022) *

By Michael C. Munger

Reflections

How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite *

By Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail R. Hall

Twenty Book Reviews Including…
Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity *

By Claudia Goldin
Reviewed by Price V. Fishback

Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change *

By Robert S. Pindyck
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Fragile Futures: The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change *

By Vito Tanzi
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines *

By David Autor, David A. Mindell, and Elisabeth B. Reynolds
Reviewed by Andre Mouton

Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners around the World *

By Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
Reviewed by Mitchell Earl

And More…

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