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(The Economics of Edwin Chadwick: Incentives Matter by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Edward O. Price III, Edward Elgar, 2012, 246 pp.) This book is the first full-length study of the economic writings of Edwin Chadwick, the 19th-century utilitarian social reformer. Although not an economist in the strict sense of the term, Chadwick wrote a voluminous