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Part Two Nixon to Biden</span></a><span>, by David Tier</span></p></li><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70020"><span>The government-robber comparison: A Long-standing tradition beyond avowed libertarianism</span></a><span>, by Brian Mandeville </span><strong><span>(Open Access)</span></strong></p></li><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70024"><span>Why is competition in the European football market failing, and what should be done about it?</span></a><span>, by Magnus Henrekson, Lars Persson </span><strong><span>(Open Access)</span></strong></p></li><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70028"><span>Modern Monetary Theory: The Bolshevik experiment</span></a><span>, by Nikolay Nenovsky, Kevin Dowd</span></p></li><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70027"><span>Your Life versus their jobs: The political economy of transport safety automation</span></a><span>, by Roslyn Layton</span></p></li><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70026"><span>The attitude of the Turkish population towards markets, wealth and capitalism</span></a><span>, by Murat &#199;okgezen</span></p></li><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70031"><span>Employer attitudes to concurrent employment: An Analysis of the European Union and Ukraine</span></a><span>, by &#1054;lena Y&#1077; Lutsenko, Dmytro V Gryn, Oleksii S Nesterovych, Karina Y Halynska, Eugene K Pushkarev</span></p></li></ul><h4><strong><span>DISCUSSION</span></strong></h4><ul><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70029"><span>Banking&#8217;s transformation and the harmful effects of too much finance,</span></a><span> by </span><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/authored-by/Xu/Guangdong"><span>Guangdong Xu</span></a></p></li></ul><h4><strong><span>BOOK REVIEW</span></strong></h4><ul><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70030"><span>How countries go broke: The big cycle. By Ray Dalio</span></a><span>. Avid Reader Press. 2025. 400 pp. &#163;30.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978-1501124068. &#163;15.99 (Kindle ed.). ISBN: 978-1501124075, by Milena Mazzoli</span></p></li><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70023"><span>The political economy of central banking: A short history of the changing role of central banks. By Alessandro Roselli</span></a><span>. Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. 348 pp. &#163;109.99 (hbk). ISBN: 978-3031770357. &#163;87.50 (ebk). ISBN: 978-3031770364, by Gabriel Stein</span></p></li><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70022"><span>False dawn: The New Deal and the promise of recovery, 1933&#8211;1947 By George Selgin</span></a><span>. University of Chicago Press. 2025. 384 pp. &#163;28.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978-0226832937. &#163;26.57 (Kindle ed.). ISBN: 978-0226838991, by Forrest Capie</span></p></li><li><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.70025"><span>The European Miracle and beyond: Essays in honour of Professor E. L. Jones Edited by Gary B. Magee and Kent Deng</span></a><span>. Palgrave Macmillan. 2025. 267 pp. &#163;179.99 (hbk). ISBN: 978-3031902475. &#163;143.50 (ebk). ISBN: 978-3031902482, by Michael James</span></p></li></ul><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://economicaffairs.co.uk/p/economic-affairs-461?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Economic Affairs! 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