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# Winter 2016 

Vol. 36 No. 1 

Edited by [James A. Dorn](https://www.cato.org/people/james-dorn) 

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Unintended Consequences of Government Intervention: Essays in Honor of Richard K. Vedder

##### Articles 

#### [Editor’s Note ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/editors-note)

By [James A. Dorn](https://www.cato.org/people/james-dorn) 

#### [Introduction: Unintended Consequences of Government Intervention ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/introduction-unintended-consequences-government-intervention)

By Joshua C. Hall and Jason E. Taylor 

#### [Reflections on the Current State of Political Economy ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/reflections-current-state-political-economy)

By Richard K. Vedder 

#### [Occupational Licensing and Interstate Migration ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/occupational-licensing-interstate-migration)

By Sean E. Mulholland and Andrew T. Young 

#### [The Unintended Consequences of the War on Poverty ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/unintended-consequences-war-poverty)

By Lowell Gallaway and Daniel G. Garrett 

#### [Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/has-war-between-rent-seekers-escalated)

By Russell S. Sobel and Joshua C. Hall 

#### [A New Measure for the Variation of State Tax Prices ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/new-measure-variation-state-tax-prices)

By Michael D. Stroup and Keith E. Hubbard 

#### [Fiscal Contraction and Economic Expansion: The 2013 Sequester and Post–World War II Spending Cuts ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/fiscal-contraction-economic-expansion-2013-sequester-post-world-war-ii)

By Jason E. Taylor and Ronald L. Klingler 

#### [Young and Out of Work: An Analysis of Teenage Summer Employment, 1972–2012 ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/young-out-work-analysis-teenage-summer-employment-1972-2012)

By J. Wilson Mixon Jr. and E. Frank Stephenson 

#### [New Evidence on the Effect of Right-to-Work Laws on Productivity and Population Growth ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/new-evidence-effect-right-work-laws-productivity-population-growth)

By Michael J. Hicks, Michael D. LaFaive, and Srikant Devaraj 

#### [The Dismal Productivity Trend for K−12 Public Schools and How to Improve It ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/dismal-productivity-trend-k-12-public-schools-how-improve-it)

By Benjamin Scafidi 

#### [Richard Vedder and the Future of Higher Education Reform ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/richard-vedder-future-higher-education-reform)

By Jayme S. Lemke and William F. Shughart II 

#### [Subnational Economic Freedom and Performance in the United States and Canada ](/cato-journal/winter-2016/subnational-economic-freedom-performance-united-states-canada)

By Daniel L. Bennett 

##### Book Reviews 

##### [*The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System* by David Skarbek](/cato-journal/winter-2016/social-order-underworld-how-prison-gangs-govern-american-penal-system)

By [Adam Bates](https://www.cato.org/people/adam-bates) 

##### [*The Prize: Who’s in Charge of Americas’s Schools?* by Dale Rusakoff](/cato-journal/winter-2016/prize-whos-charge-americass-schools-dale-rusakoff)

By Kevin Currie-Knight 

##### [*Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America’s Young* by Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Jared Meyer](/cato-journal/winter-2016/disinherited-how-washington-betraying-americas-young-diana-furchtgott-roth)

By Aloysius Hogan, Esq. and John Martin 

##### [*Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective* by Thomas Sowell](/cato-journal/winter-2016/wealth-poverty-politics-international-perspective-thomas-sowell)

By Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. 

##### [*The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America* by Arthur Brooks](/cato-journal/winter-2016/conservative-heart-how-build-fairer-happier-more-prosperous-america-arthur)

By [Roger Pilon](https://www.cato.org/people/roger-pilon) 

##### [*Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis* by Robert Putnam](/cato-journal/winter-2016/our-kids-american-dream-crisis-robert-putnam)

By Matt Warner 

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