The Politics of Freedom: Taking on The Left, The Right and Threats to Our Liberties by David Boaz

Is it any wonder that Americans have become so dis more...0 points

Is it any wonder that Americans have become so dissatisfied with government today? Politicians have given us soaring federal spending, rampant violations of our constitutional rights, a futile war in Iraq, corruption, incompetence, and a growing nanny state. Now one of the leading libertarian critics of big government raises the flag of freedom. David Boaz takes on both liberals and conservatives who seek to impose their own partisan agendas on the whole country. He discusses the roots of Americ...0 points

The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Presidential Power by Gene Healy

The Bush years have justifiably given rise to fear more...0 points

The Bush years have justifiably given rise to fears of a new Imperial Presidency. Yet despite the controversy surrounding the administration's expansive claims of executive power, both Left and Right agree on the boundless nature of presidential responsibility. The Imperial Presidency is the price we seem to be willingly and dangerously agreeable to pay the office the focus of our national hopes and dreams. Interweaving historical scholarship, legal analysis, and cultural commentary, The Cult of...0 points

The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future by Randal O'Toole

Drawing on 30 years of experience reviewing hundre more...0 points

Drawing on 30 years of experience reviewing hundreds of government plans, Randal O'Toole shows that, thanks to government planners, American cities are choked with congestion, major American housing markets have become unaf-fordable, and the cost of government infrastructure is spiraling out of control. The book makes the case for repeal of federal planning laws and closure of gov-ernment planning offices. Every American who worries about the insidious growth of the Nanny State must read this bo...0 points

Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservativism Brought Down the Republican Revolution by Michael D. Tanner

Despite an ostensibly conservative Republican pres more...0 points

Despite an ostensibly conservative Republican president and republican control of Congress, government is bigger and more intrusive than ever. That is not by accident; it is the conscious aim of a new brand of conservatism that seeks, not to reduce the size of government, but to use big government for conservative ends. This book shows how the Bush administration, Congress, and large parts of the Republican Party and the conservative movement have abandoned traditional conservative ideals and em...0 points

How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution by Richard A. Epstein

In this provocative book, Richard Epstein shows ho more...0 points

In this provocative book, Richard Epstein shows how Progressives saw in constitutional interpretation an opportunity to advance their political agenda. They transformed a Constitution that reflected the influence of John Lock and James Madison into one that reflected the ideas of the leading intellectuals of their own time. As a result, they rewrote, because they did not understand, key provisions of the constitutional text.0 points

David's Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary by Clint Bolick

Judicial activism is condemned by both right and l more...0 points

Judicial activism is condemned by both right and left, for good reason--lawless courts are a threat to republican government. But challenging conventional wisdom, constitutional litigator Clint Bolick argues in David's Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary that far worse is a judiciary that allows the other branches of government to run roughshod over precious liberties. For better or worse, only a vigorous judiciary can enforce the limits on executive and legislative action, protect consti...0 points

The Antitrust Religion by Edwin S. Rockefeller

Edwin S. Rockefeller, drawing on 50 years experien more...0 points

Edwin S. Rockefeller, drawing on 50 years experience with the antitrust laws, offers an explanation for their enduring irrationality. He questions whether any sense can be made of our antitrust statutes and their enforcement.0 points

Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America by Timothy Sandefur

The right to own and use private property is among more...0 points

The right to own and use private property is among the most essential human rights and the essential basis for economic growth. That's why America's Founders guaranteed it in the Constitution. Yet in today's America, government tramples on this right in countless ways. Regulations forbid people to use their property as they wish, bureaucrats extort enormous fees from developers in exchange for building permits, and police departments snatch personal belongings on the suspicion that they were inv...0 points

Healthy Competition, Second Edition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, by Michael F. Cannon

Government control has driven health care costs sk more...0 points

Government control has driven health care costs sky-high at the same time that it has reduced the quality of care. As America's health care system cries out for reform, should policymakers embrace even more government planning, or should they fight for more individual freedom? In this updated edition of their 2005 book, the authors tackle proposals that would let government manage even more of America's health care sector. The continuing problem of ever-rising health care costs makes this book a...0 points

Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care by Arnold Kling

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America's health care troubles stem largely from a ghttp://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/workshop/LibertyBooks#module2595496Hdr

Squidoo : Lensmaster Workshopreat success: Modern medicine can do much more today than in the past. The problem is how to pay for it. In easy to understand prose, MIT-trained economist Arnold Kling explains better ways of financing health care by relying less on government and more on private savings and insurance. A must-read for health care reformers.0 points

Liberty & Learning: Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty by Robert Enlow

Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman had the ground-br more...0 points

Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman had the ground-breaking idea to improve public education with school vouchers. By separating government financing of education from government administration of schools, Friedman argued, parents at all income levels would have the freedom to choose the schools their children attend. Liberty & Learning is a collection of essays from the nation's top education experts evaluating the progress of Friedman's innovative idea and reflecting on its merits in the 21st cen...0 points

School Choice: The Findings by Herbert J. Walberg

School Choice: The Findings is the most comprehens more...0 points

School Choice: The Findings is the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey available summarizing the research on charter schools, vouchers, and public versus private school effectiveness. The focus is on rigorous studies - those using randomized control groups (as in medical research), those that monitor achievement changes over time, and those based on large numbers of students. The findings reviewed here go beyond academic achievement, covering students' civic engagement, cost comparisons acr...0 points

Medicare Meets Mephistopheles by David Hyman

Let's say you're the devil, and you want to corrup more...0 points

Let's say you're the devil, and you want to corrupt the American republic. How would you go about it? According to David Hyman, you might create something like Medicare, the federal health care program for the elderly. Hyman submits that Medicare may be the greatest trick the devil ever played. Medicare feeds on the avarice of doctors and other providers, turns seniors into health care gluttons, and makes regions of the United States green with envy over the dollars showered on other regions. Th...0 points

Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood by Jim Harper

The advance of identification technology biometric more...0 points

The advance of identification technology biometrics, identity cards, surveillance, databases, dossiers threatens privacy, civil liberties, and related human interests. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, demands for identification in the name of security have increased. In this insightful book, Jim Harper takes readers inside identification a process everyone uses every day but few people have ever thought about. Using stories and examples from movies, television, and classic lite...0 points

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media by Patrick J. Michaels

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Trapped: When Acting Ethically is Against the Law by John Hasnas

Since Enron's collapse in 2002, the federal govern more...0 points

Since Enron's collapse in 2002, the federal government has stepped up its campaign against white-collar crime. In this timely book, John Hasnas reveals how the government's effort to enforce legal rules has created a Catch-22 legal environment in which businesspeople must either act unethically or illegally.0 points

The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet by Indur Goklany

Many people believe that globalization and its key more...0 points

Many people believe that globalization and its key components have made matters worse for humanity and the environment. Indur M. Goklany exposes this as a complete myth and challenges people to consider how much worse the world would be without them. Goklany confronts foes of globalization and demonstrates that economic growth, technological change and free trade helped to power a cycle of progress that in the last two centuries enabled unprecedented improvements in every objective measurement o...0 points

Economic Freedom of the World: 2007 Annual Report

The key ingredients of economic freedom are person more...0 points

The key ingredients of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and the protection of persons and property. Economic freedom creates an environment in which personal ingenuity can flourish. Economic Freedom of the World provides the most comprehensive index of economic freedom available. It uses reproducible measures appropriate for peer-reviewed research. Approximately 200 scholarly articles have employed the index. The full data-set, including all of the da...0 points

In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg

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Marshalling facts and the latest research findings, the author systematically refutes the adversaries of globalization, markets, and progress. This book will change the debate on globalization in this country and make believers of skeptics.0 points

Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality by Olaf Gersemann

Europeans and many American pundits believe that w more...0 points

Europeans and many American pundits believe that while the U.S. economy may create more growth, Europeans have it better when it come to job security and other factors. Olaf Gersemann, a German reporter who came to America, found the reality quite different. He checked facts and found the market freedoms in America create a more flexible, adaptable and prosperous system then the declining welfare states of old Europe.0 points

Regulation

REGULATION is the preeminent public policy magazin more...0 points

REGULATION is the preeminent public policy magazine dealing with regulatory issues ranging from environmental law, health & medicine, and trade to antitrust, securities & exchange, and telecommunications. Four times a year, REGULATION delivers expert analysis of the twists and turns of regulations, how they work and don't work, and their economic impact.0 points

Cato Journal

An interdisciplinary journal of public policy anal more...0 points

An interdisciplinary journal of public policy analysis written for scholars.0 points

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America

A pocket edition of America's founding documents.0 points