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Economic History and Development

Commentary

How the Fed Finances U.S. Debt: Look behind the federal books to see the ways monetary policy has come to abet runaway spending.

Judy L. Shelton | Oct. 14, 2021

Can You Even Be an ‘Informed’ Citizen?

Art Carden | Oct. 13, 2021

How Innovative Is Crypto?

Steve H. Hanke, Matt Sekerke | Oct. 13, 2021

The Woke Left’s Primitive Economics

The Woke Left’s Primitive Economics: Zero-sum thinking was adaptive in a world of tribal conflict, but isn’t in a modern society.

Paul H. Rubin | Oct. 6, 2021

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Book Reviews

The Hand behind the Invisible Hand: Dogmatic and Pragmatic Views on ...

Karl Mittermaier
Reviewed By Michael C. Munger

The Hand behind the Invisible Hand: Dogmatic and Pragmatic Views on Free Markets and the State of Economic Theory

Karl Mittermaier
Reviewed By Michael C. Munger

Has the West Lost It?

Kishore Mahbubani
Reviewed By Hilton L. Root

Has the West Lost It?

Kishore Mahbubani
Reviewed By Hilton L. Root

Economics in the Time of COVID-19

Reviewed By Robert M. Whaples

Economics in the Time of COVID-19

Reviewed By Robert M. Whaples

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Research

Capitalism, Slavery, and Matthew Desmond’s Low-Road Contribution to The 1619 ...

Capitalism, Slavery, and Matthew Desmond’s Low-Road Contribution to The 1619 Project

By Peter A. Coclanis
Research Article | Aug. 12, 2021

The Cause of the Great Depression: The Decision to Resume the Gold Standard on Prewar ...

The Cause of the Great Depression: The Decision to Resume the Gold Standard on Prewar Terms

By John H. Wood, Sandeep Mazumder
The Independent Review | July 1, 2021

The Chicago Boys and the Revival of Classical Liberal Economics in Chile

By Axel Kaiser
Research Article | June 11, 2021

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Independent Institute Books

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Videos

Skyrocketing Crime, Post-COVID-19 Schools, Biden's ...

Race & Liberty in America

Virus and Leviathan: Infectious Diseases and Government ...

How to Restore Freedom to Americans in This Time of ...

COVID-19 Crisis: Reining in the Government’s Harmful ...

COVID-19 Crisis: Why the Coronavirus Will Kill 500 ...

Why a Pandemic Is Not a Recession | R. David Ranson ...

Fear: The Fuel of Government Power—Coronavirus ...

Fixing Science

Richard Vedder: Realistic Solutions to Big College ...

Audio

“California’s COVID Failures” Sr. Fellow Lawrence McQuillan appears on The Andy Caldwell Show on KUHL radio in Santa Maria, CA.
May 3, 2021

“Does Government ‘Stimulus’ Really Stimulate?” Research Fellow David Ranson appears on the Liberty Watch radio show
Apr. 4, 2021

“Arguments Against the Minimum Wage” Sr. Fellow John Goodman, author of New Way to Care appears on the Michael Berry radio show
Mar. 22, 2021

“Abolish Daylight Savings?” Sr. Fellow William F. Shughart II appears on the Michael Smerconish radio show on SiriusXM
Mar. 15, 2021

“Conservative Identity Crisis” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care appears on WIND radio's Dan Proft Show
Feb. 17, 2021

“Riots in America: Today vs the 1960s” Research Fellow Jonathan Bean appears on the Lars Larson show
June 8, 2020

“Time to Listen to the Coronavirus Dissidents” Sr. Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa appears on American Medicine Today
June 6, 2020

“Pandemic and Leviathan” Sr. Fellow Robert Whaples appears on American Medicine Today
May 22, 2020

“California’s AB5 Law Should be Suspended” Sr. Fellow Bill Evers appears on KMJ radio
May 5, 2020

“California Fires and PG&E” Lawrence McQuillan appears on the Lars Larson radio show
Oct. 30, 2019

Sr. Fellow Robert Whaples appears on the Wayne Allyn Root radio show
Oct. 18, 2019

Research Fellow Robert Whaples on "Spirit in the Morning Radio Show"
Dec. 6, 2017