Acknowledgments

I thank the Eudaimonia Institute at Wake Forest University and particularly Professor James Otteson for a visiting fellowship that enabled this project to get underway. I thank the Mercatus Center at George Mason University for ongoing support. For constructive criticism I am grateful to: Neera Badhwar, Jim Epstein, Virgil Storr, Peter Boettke, and other participants in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics workshop of the Mercatus Center; and participants in a manuscript workshop organized by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER): Carola Binder, Nicolas Cachanosky, Nic Carter, Nick Curott, Bryan Cutsinger, Jerry Dwyer, Cameron Harwick, Thomas Hogan, Jerry Jordan, Lydia Mashburn, Allison Reichel, George Selgin, Scott Sumner, and Craig Warmke. I thank the AIER’s Reagan Sobel and Brad DeVos for organizing the workshop. Juan Carlos Ortega helped to prepare the index. All of the above are blameless for errors and infelicities that remain.