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.
Burton A. Abrams
Vicki E. Alger
Ryan C. Amacher
Karen LaFollette Araujo
The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
Dominick T. Armentano
Jonathan J. Bean
Wilfred Beckerman
David Beckworth
David T. Beito
David T. Beito
Bruce L. Benson
To Serve and Protect
Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice
Peter J. Boettke
Carl P. Close
Tyler Cowen
Christopher J. Coyne
Eric Crampton
Robert T. Deacon
Kevin Dowd
Money and the Nation State
The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System
Donald A. Downs
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus
Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
The Civilian and the Military
A History of the American Antimilitarist Tradition
The Decline of American Liberalism
Ivan Eland
War and the Rogue Presidency
Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure
Eleven Presidents
Promises vs. Results in Achieving Limited Government
Recarving Rushmore
Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
The Empire Has No Clothes (Updated Edition)
U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed
Roger D. Feldman
American Health Care
Government, Market Processes and the Public Interest
H. E. Frech
Lowell E. Gallaway
Out of Work
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Bradley M. Gardner
B. Delworth Gardner
John C. Goodman
Peter Gordon
Anthony Gregory
American Surveillance
Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment
The Power of Habeas Corpus in America
From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror
Stephen P. Halbrook
The Right to Bear Arms
A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?
The Founders’ Second Amendment (2019)
Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
Gun Control in the Third Reich
Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State”
Securing Civil Rights
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms
The Founders’ Second Amendment (2008)
Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
Eric A. Helland
Robert Higgs
Crisis and Leviathan
Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (25th Anniversary Edition)
Neither Liberty nor Safety
Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government
Depression, War, and Cold War
Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity
Arms, Politics, and the Economy
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Randall G. Holcombe
Writing Off Ideas
Taxation, Foundations, and Philanthropy in America
M. Bruce Johnson
Andrew N. Kleit
Michael I. Krauss
Edward J. López
David R. Legates
Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
Stan J. Liebowitz
Winners, Losers & Microsoft
Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
Anthony R. Lupo
Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
Tibor R. Machan
Private Rights and Public Illusions
Stephen E. Margolis
Winners, Losers & Microsoft
Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
Wendy McElroy
Vern P. McKinley
Lawrence J. McQuillan
California Dreaming
Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis
Roger E. Meiners
Regulation and the Reagan Era
Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest
Cutting Green Tape
Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation and the Law
John D. Merrifield
Jeffrey A. Miron
William C. Mitchell
Mike M. Moore
Michael C. Munger
Robert P. Murphy
Robert H. Nelson
The New Holy Wars
Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America
Ernest C. Pasour, Jr.
Benjamin Powell
Lawrence S. Powell
Benjamin Powell
William Ratliff
Paul Craig Roberts
The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
Alienation and the Soviet Economy
The Collapse of the Socialist Era
Gabriel Roth
Street Smart
Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads
Randal R. Rucker
David O. Sacks
George A. Selgin
Good Money
Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821
William F. Shughart II
Kenneth J. Sim
Beyond Politics
The Roots of Government Failure (Revised and Updated Edition)
S. Fred Singer
Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
John W. Sommer
Edward P. Stringham
Richard L. Stroup
Cutting Green Tape
Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation and the Law
Scott Sumner
The Midas Paradox
Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression
Alexander T. Tabarrok
Peter A. Thiel
Richard H. Timberlake, Jr.
Money and the Nation State
The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System
James Tooley
Really Good Schools
Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education
Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Liberty for Latin America
How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression
Richard K. Vedder
Out of Work
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Can Teachers Own Their Own Schools?
New Strategies for Educational Excellence
William J. Watkins, Jr.
Crossroads for Liberty
Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America’s First Constitution
Patent Trolls
Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation
Reclaiming the American Revolution
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy
Robert M. Whaples
Pope Francis and the Caring Society
Douglas Glen Whitman
Bruce Yandle
Regulation and the Reagan Era
Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest
Ryan M. Yonk
