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 Warmings 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

Chinas Great Migration
How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation

Crossroads for Liberty
Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of Americas First Constitution


American Surveillance
Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment

Failure
The Federal Misedukation of Americas 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 Americas 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 Kings 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 Asias 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 Warmings 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