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COVID-19 Failures in CaliforniaNew California Golden Fleece® Report
The COVID-19 surges in California would have been easier to manage had markets, not regulations, determined healthcare staffing and supply chains over past decades, the report claims. Lockdowns and rationing of routine care could have been largely avoided.
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New Book: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education
A quiet revolution in education is taking place throughout the developing world: the astounding growth of low-cost private schools in some of the poorest areas of the world.
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K-12 and Higher Education Bibliographies Serve as Foundations for Student Preparation to Better Serve Education Needs
Serving as Foundations for Student Preparation to Better Serve Education Needs
The Independent Institute has compiled two essential annotated bibliographies to help families and students to prepare themselves for the shortcomings in the primary and higher education systems.
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New Report: Does Government Stimulus Really Stimulate?
Unproven Economic Remedies Not What Economy Needs
Will the passage of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill stimulate the economy? Or simply redistribute wealth and transfer debt from the private to the public sector? Experience suggests that monetary and fiscal actions are ineffective in speeding economic recoveries.
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New Book: Hot Talk, Cold Science
Global Warmings Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
Overheated rhetoric has politicized and misinformed the public about the earths climate. This single book on climate science and policy serves as an authoritative yet accessible guide for both lay readers and those already versed in these complex and vital issues.
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CATALYST: Young Voices for Liberty
Catalyst is our website dedicated to issues that millennials care about the most: jobs, housing costs, education, student debt, healthcare, and more. Learn, engage, and connect.
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VISIT the bookstoreThe Independent Review A Journal of Political Economy
Latest Issue: Winter 2020/21
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Introduction: The Political Economy of Great Works of Literature
by Robert M. Whaples
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Is Nothing Sacred?: Aristophaness The Clouds and Moral Taboos
by William P. Baumgarth Sr.
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Crusoe and the Economists
by Steven G. Horwitz, Sarah Skwire
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Human Nature and Civil Society in Jane Austen
by Michelle Albert Vachris, Cecil E. Bohanon
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A Lesson in Humility, a Lesson for Our Times
by Alberto Mingardi
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Liberty Befits All
by Robert E. Wright
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Economics Meets War and Peace
by Geoffrey Brennan, A.M.C. Waterman
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The Political Economy of Joseph Conrad
by Robert M. Whaples
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The Autopoietic World of Franz Kafka
by Antony W. Dnes
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Philanthropic Exchange in Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man
by Cecil E. Bohanon, Michelle Albert Vachris
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The Political Economy of Flannery OConnor
by Anemone Beaulier, Scott A. Beaulier
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What Is Supply-Side Economics? Four Decades Later Wikipedia and Academic Economists Still Dont Know
by Paul Craig Roberts
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12 Book Reviews
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