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EDITORIAL
Introduction by J R Shackleton
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
UK monetary and fiscal policy since 2007: Could we have done better?, by Terence Burns
Debt as a US defence spending consideration since the end of World War II. Part Two Nixon to Biden, by David Tier
The government-robber comparison: A Long-standing tradition beyond avowed libertarianism, by Brian Mandeville (Open Access)
Why is competition in the European football market failing, and what should be done about it?, by Magnus Henrekson, Lars Persson (Open Access)
Modern Monetary Theory: The Bolshevik experiment, by Nikolay Nenovsky, Kevin Dowd
Your Life versus their jobs: The political economy of transport safety automation, by Roslyn Layton
The attitude of the Turkish population towards markets, wealth and capitalism, by Murat Çokgezen
Employer attitudes to concurrent employment: An Analysis of the European Union and Ukraine, by Оlena Yе Lutsenko, Dmytro V Gryn, Oleksii S Nesterovych, Karina Y Halynska, Eugene K Pushkarev
DISCUSSION
BOOK REVIEW
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