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APRIL 2020 CONTENTS

Special Issue on Honour of Yoram Barzel Guest editors: Rosolino A. Candela and Ennio E. Piano

119–126 The Art and Science of Economic Explanation: Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Yoram Barzel ROSOLINO A. CANDELA AND ENNIO E. PIANO

127–144 Rationing by racing and the Oklahoma land rushes DOUGLAS W. ALLEN AND BRYAN LEONARD

145–150 Logic is a harsh mistress: welfare economics for economists PETER T. LEESON

151–167 The politics of land property rights MEINA CAI,ILIA MURTAZASHVILI AND JENNIFER MURTAZASHVILI

169–183 Desertion as theft ENNIO E. PIANO AND LOUIS ROUANET

185–197 Property, predation and socialist reality PETER J. BOETTKE

199–215 Property rights and domestication DEAN LUECK AND GUSTAVO TORRENS

217–232 Is there a limit to the size of the state? The scope conditions of Wagner’slaw STEVEN M. KARCESKI AND EDGAR KISER

233–249 The political economy of insecure property rights: insights from the Kingdom of Sicily ROSOLINO A. CANDELA

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