Also in this issue

Politicians in Alabama and Georgia are cashing in on immigration fears to buy votes, but everyone pays, as Scott Beaulier, Darrick Luke and Daniel Smith explain.  Robert Higgs asks if regime uncertainty explains the current malaise. Andrew Morriss marvels at how much better we live than Elvis did. Gary Chartier asks who’s really on the side of the poor and Robert Murphy says the Euro shows how little one can expect from a currency born entirely of government.

• Libertarianism, from A to Z

  Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble

• Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

  Reviewed by Lawrence H. White

• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

  Reviewed by George C. Leef

• New Threats to Freedom: From Banning Ice Cream Trucks in Brooklyn to Abandoning Democracy Around the World

  Reviewed by Wendy McElroy

• Tough on Immigration Is Tough on Economic Growth

  by Scott Beaulier

• Going to Graceland

  by Andrew P. Morriss

• Government Is No Friend of the Poor

  by Gary Chartier

• Blowing Bubbles: Getting Ready for the Next Bust

  by Richard W. Fulmer

• State-Mandated Thinking

  by Peter McAllister

• The Euro: The Folly of Political Currency

  by Robert P. Murphy

• Taxi Regulation and the Failures of Progressivism

  by Samuel R. Staley

• Government the Job Killer

  by John Stossel

• Disaster Response Restores Confidence in Government?

  by Tyler Watts

• Regime Uncertainty, Then and Now

  by Robert Higgs

• Occupying Wall Street

  by Sheldon Richman

• Destroying Value

  by Sheldon Richman

• Employer Speech and Freedom of Association

  by Charles W. Baird

• Some Sins of Textbook Economics

  by Donald J. Boudreaux