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This book studies the relationship between religion and a country's economic and political development. The book provides new insights into my field by linking religion to state activity and comparing the effects of different religions. The book taught me a lot about Eastern Orthodoxy, especially how it differs from other religions, and I gained a better understanding of how religion affects political and economic development in formerly socialist countries. [Extracted from the article]

The circumstance that the political legacy may be undervalued when tested against reality is attributable to an increase in the absolute value of public debt, which may result in a reduction in the debt/GDP ratio due to inflation or debt monetization. Following O'Driscoll ([10]), Salsman writes "Ricardo's debt theory is over examined today due largely to the formalism of "Ricardian equivalence", a doctrine Ricardo discussed but rejected." Although Salsman's reading of Keynes and the Keynesians in terms of discontinuity has a wide audience in the literature, it conflicts with Buchanan and Wagner ([3]), who see Keynes and the Keynesians as tightly linked. In fact, the increase in the debt/GDP ratio may be the result of either a low economic growth and an increase in deficit, or of debt-reduction policies through large tax increases. [Extracted from the article]

The COVID-19 crisis has clearly shown that the challenges faced by science and public policy are both national and global in scope. Robin Williams makes the case for Innovations Studies (IS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS) in studies of science and public policy. Suffice to say that Martin's chapter and the Handbook as such clearly show that the science and public policy landscape is not only in flux, but also provides stable and fertile ground for future explorations. [Extracted from the article]

Samuel Cameron's collection is a welcome retrospective, and prospective, review of the field of cultural economics, a project central to that of this Journal. The collection is firmly book-ended by Cameron's review of both a history and a preview of the challenges to the contemporary and future agenda of cultural economics. Cameron is right to underline that we have seen a flourishing of analyses of the creative economy, but not of cultural economics. [Extracted from the article]