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The Name Says It All: Gun Control Isn’t About Reducing Firearm Violence; It’s About Control
• Apr 16
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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 Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
Overheated rhetoric has politicized and misinformed the public about the earth’s 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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New Book: New Way to Care
Social Protections that Put Families First
John C. Goodman offers a bold strategy for giving Americans more control over their destiny, while still promoting—at far less expense—the important social goals that gave rise to government safety-net programs.
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Infectious Diseases and Government Growth
New Article Warns of ‘Virus and Leviathan’
The extension of state power in the U.S. has been alarming—but the long-term consequences could be even more devastating to civil society and just government.
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New Report: Bugs in the System
California’s Monumental IT Failures Earn Latest California Golden Fleece® Award
Despite being home to some of the greatest minds in technology, California continues failing to modernize its IT systems, much less do so under budget. State agencies are swindling taxpayers and breaking the public trust.
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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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LOVE GOV: Watch Seasons 1 and 2
Independent’s satirical 2-season 10-part video series personifies the folly, cost, and intrusiveness of government, demonstrating the federal government’s ever-expanding reach into our lives.
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The 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?: Aristophanes’s 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 Ellison’s Invisible Man
by Cecil E. Bohanon, Michelle Albert Vachris
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The Political Economy of Flannery O’Connor
by Anemone Beaulier, Scott A. Beaulier
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What Is Supply-Side Economics? Four Decades Later Wikipedia and Academic Economists Still Don’t Know
by Paul Craig Roberts
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