Books
Since its founding in 1987, Independent has published or co-published over one hundred books on myriad policy subjects including healthcare, housing, education, foreign policy, and more.
Since its founding in 1987, Independent has published or co-published over one hundred books on myriad policy subjects including healthcare, housing, education, foreign policy, and more.
Really Good Schools
Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education
Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
The Founders’ Second Amendment (2019)
Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
In All Fairness
Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity
Liberty in Peril
Democracy and Power in American History
War and the Rogue Presidency
Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure
Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France
Tyranny and Resistance
T.R.M. Howard
Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer
Eleven Presidents
Promises vs. Results in Achieving Limited Government
Pope Francis and the Caring Society
China’s Great Migration
How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation
Crossroads for Liberty
Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America’s First Constitution
American Surveillance
Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment
Failure
The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children
The Midas Paradox
Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression
The Economics of Immigration
Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy
Taking a Stand
Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy
California Dreaming
Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis
Recarving Rushmore
Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
Patent Trolls
Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation
Gun Control in the Third Reich
Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State”
Global Crossings
Immigration, Civilization, and America
The Power of Habeas Corpus in America
From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror
Crisis and Leviathan
Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (25th Anniversary Edition)
Boom and Bust Banking
The Causes and Cures of the Great Recession
Delusions of Power
New Explorations of the State, War, and Economy
Beyond Politics
The Roots of Government Failure (Revised and Updated Edition)
Good Money
Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821
The Civilian and the Military
A History of the American Antimilitarist Tradition
The Pursuit of Justice
Law and Economics of Legal Institutions
Property Rights
Eminent Domain and Regulatory Takings Re-Examined
Securing Civil Rights
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms
The New Holy Wars
Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America
Depression, War, and Cold War
Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity
The Decline of American Liberalism
Vietnam Rising
Culture and Change in Asia’s Tiger Cub
The Founders’ Second Amendment (2008)
Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
Lessons from the Poor
Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
The Empire Has No Clothes (Updated Edition)
U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed
Making Poor Nations Rich
Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development
Opposing the Crusader State
Alternatives to Global Interventionism
Neither Liberty nor Safety
Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government
Electric Choices
Deregulation and the Future of Electric Power
Street Smart
Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads
Resurgence of the Warfare State
The Crisis Since 9/11
Plowshares & Pork Barrels
The Political Economy of Agriculture
Re-Thinking Green
Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus
Liberty for Latin America
How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression
The Empire Has No Clothes (First Edition)
U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed
Against Leviathan
Government Power and a Free Society
Reclaiming the American Revolution
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy
Faulty Towers
Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education
Changing the Guard
Private Prisons and the Control of Crime
A Poverty of Reason
Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
Liberty for Women
Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
The Voluntary City
Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Writing Off Ideas
Taxation, Foundations, and Philanthropy in America
Cutting Green Tape
Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation and the Law
Can Teachers Own Their Own Schools?
New Strategies for Educational Excellence
American Health Care
Government, Market Processes and the Public Interest
Hot Talk, Cold Science (1999)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate
Winners, Losers & Microsoft
Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
Money and the Nation State
The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System
The Diversity Myth
Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus
To Serve and Protect
Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice
Taxing Choice
The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination
Out of Work
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
Private Rights and Public Illusions
Hazardous to Our Health?
FDA Regulation of Health Care Products
The Academy in Crisis
The Political Economy of Higher Education
Beyond Politics (First Edition)
Markets, Welfare and the Failure of Bureaucracy
That Every Man Be Armed
The Evolution of a Constitutional Right
Freedom, Feminism, and the State
Arms, Politics, and the Economy
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Alienation and the Soviet Economy
The Collapse of the Socialist Era
Agriculture and the State
Market Processes and Bureaucracy
Regulation and the Reagan Era
Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest
