From The Editor

Ben S. Bernanke: Current Economic and Financial Conditions

Sheila C. Bair: Reforming Mortgage Finance

Edward P. Lazear: Encouraging Growth and Stability

Matthias S. Fifka: The Baltics: Continuing Boom or Bursting Bubble?

Claire Starry and Gerald W. Bernstein: The Economics of Private Business Jet Travel

Nayantara Hensel: Globalization and the U.S. Defense Industrial Base: the Competition for a New Aerial Refueling Tanker

Richard Koss: Economists In a World of Financial Ruin

Andrew C. Gross and Jozsef Poor: The Global Management Consulting Sector

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Economic Facts and Fallacies By Thomas Sowell.
2008. New York, NY, Basic Books. Pp. 272. $26.00 hardcover.
Reviewed by Jesse Hixon

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions By Dan Ariely.
2008. New York, NY: HarperCollins. Pp. 304. $25.95 hardcover.

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