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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.
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Burton A. Abrams
The Terrible 10
A Century of Economic Folly
Published: 2013
Vicki E. Alger
Failure
The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children
Published: 2016
Ryan C. Amacher
Faulty Towers
Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education
Published: 2004
Karen LaFollette Araujo
The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
Published: 1997
Dominick T. Armentano
Antitrust and Monopoly
Anatomy of a Policy Failure
Published: 1990
Jonathan J. Bean
Race & Liberty in America
The Essential Reader
Published: 2009
Wilfred Beckerman
A Poverty of Reason
Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
Published: 2002
David Beckworth
Boom and Bust Banking
The Causes and Cures of the Great Recession
Published: 2012
David T. Beito
The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights
The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance
Published: 2023
T.R.M. Howard
Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer
Published: 2018
The Voluntary City
Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Published: 2002
Linda Royster Beito
T.R.M. Howard
Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer
Published: 2018
James T. Bennett
Highway Heist
America’s Crumbling Infrastructure and the Way Forward
Published: 2022
Bruce L. Benson
The Enterprise of Law
Justice Without the State
Published: 2011
Property Rights
Eminent Domain and Regulatory Takings Re-Examined
Published: 2010
To Serve and Protect
Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice
Published: 1998
Peter J. Boettke
Living Economics
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Published: 2012
Carl P. Close
Opposing the Crusader State
Alternatives to Global Interventionism
Published: 2007
The Challenge of Liberty
Classical Liberalism Today
Published: 2006
Re-Thinking Green
Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy
Published: 2005
Tyler Cowen
Market Failure or Success
The New Debate
Published: 2002
Christopher J. Coyne
How to Run Wars
A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite
Published: 2024
Is Social Justice Just?
Published: 2023
In Search of Monsters to Destroy
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
Published: 2022
In All Fairness
Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity
Published: 2019
Future
Economic Peril or Prosperity?
Published: 2016
Eric Crampton
Market Failure or Success
The New Debate
Published: 2002
Robert T. Deacon
Taxing Energy
Oil Severance Taxation and the Economy
Published: 1990
Kevin Dowd
Money and the Nation State
The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System
Published: 1998
Donald A. Downs
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus
Published: 2005
Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
The Civilian and the Military
A History of the American Antimilitarist Tradition
Published: 2010
The Decline of American Liberalism
Published: 2009
Ivan Eland
War and the Rogue Presidency
Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure
Published: 2019
Eleven Presidents
Promises vs. Results in Achieving Limited Government
Published: 2017
Recarving Rushmore
Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
Published: 2014
No War for Oil
U.S. Dependency and the Middle East
Published: 2011
Partitioning for Peace
An Exit Strategy for Iraq
Published: 2009
The Empire Has No Clothes (Updated Edition)
U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed
Published: 2008
The Empire Has No Clothes (First Edition)
U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed
Published: 2004
Roger D. Feldman
American Health Care
Government, Market Processes and the Public Interest
Published: 2000
H. E. Frech
Taxing Energy
Oil Severance Taxation and the Economy
Published: 1990
Lowell E. Gallaway
Out of Work
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Published: 1997
B. Delworth Gardner
Aquanomics
Water Markets and the Environment
Published: 2012
Bradley M. Gardner
China’s Great Migration
How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation
Published: 2017
Benjamin Ginsberg
The New American Anti-Semitism
The Left, the Right, and the Jews
Published: 2024
John C. Goodman
New Way to Care
Social Protections that Put Families First
Published: 2020
A Better Choice
Healthcare Solutions for America
Published: 2015
Priceless
Curing the Healthcare Crisis
Published: 2012
Peter Gordon
The Voluntary City
Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Published: 2002
Anthony Gregory
American Surveillance
Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment
Published: 2016
The Power of Habeas Corpus in America
From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror
Published: 2013
Stephen P. Halbrook
The Right to Bear Arms
A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?
Published: 2021
Securing Civil Rights (2021)
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms
Published: 2021
The Founders’ Second Amendment (2019)
Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
Published: 2019
Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France
Tyranny and Resistance
Published: 2018
Gun Control in the Third Reich
Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State”
Published: 2013
Securing Civil Rights (2010)
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms
Published: 2010
The Founders’ Second Amendment (2008)
Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
Published: 2008
That Every Man Be Armed
The Evolution of a Constitutional Right
Published: 1994
Abigail R. Hall
How to Run Wars
A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite
Published: 2024
Eric A. Helland
Judge and Jury
American Tort Law on Trial
Published: 2006
Robert Higgs
Taking a Stand
Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy
Published: 2015
Crisis and Leviathan
Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (25th Anniversary Edition)
Published: 2012
Delusions of Power
New Explorations of the State, War, and Economy
Published: 2012
Depression, War, and Cold War
Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity
Published: 2009
Opposing the Crusader State
Alternatives to Global Interventionism
Published: 2007
Neither Liberty nor Safety
Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government
Published: 2007
The Challenge of Liberty
Classical Liberalism Today
Published: 2006
Resurgence of the Warfare State
The Crisis Since 9/11
Published: 2005
Re-Thinking Green
Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy
Published: 2005
Against Leviathan
Government Power and a Free Society
Published: 2004
Hazardous to Our Health?
FDA Regulation of Health Care Products
Published: 1995
Arms, Politics, and the Economy
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Published: 1990
Randall G. Holcombe
Liberty in Peril
Democracy and Power in American History
Published: 2019
Housing America
Building Out of a Crisis
Published: 2009
Writing Off Ideas
Taxation, Foundations, and Philanthropy in America
Published: 2000
M. Bruce Johnson
Taxing Energy
Oil Severance Taxation and the Economy
Published: 1990
Andrew N. Kleit
Electric Choices
Deregulation and the Future of Electric Power
Published: 2007
Michael I. Krauss
Fire and Smoke
Government, Lawsuits and the Rule of Law
Published: 2000
Edward J. López
The Pursuit of Justice
Law and Economics of Legal Institutions
Published: 2010
David R. Legates
Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
Published: 2021
Stan J. Liebowitz
Winners, Losers & Microsoft
Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
Published: 1999
Anthony R. Lupo
Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
Published: 2021
Tibor R. Machan
Private Rights and Public Illusions
Published: 1995
Stephen E. Margolis
Winners, Losers & Microsoft
Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
Published: 1999
Wendy McElroy
Liberty for Women
Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Published: 2002
Freedom, Feminism, and the State
Published: 1991
Vern P. McKinley
Financing Failure
A Century of Bailouts
Published: 2012
Lawrence J. McQuillan
California Dreaming
Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis
Published: 2015
Roger E. Meiners
Faulty Towers
Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education
Published: 2004
Cutting Green Tape
Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation and the Law
Published: 2000
Regulation and the Reagan Era
Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest
Published: 1989
John D. Merrifield
School Choices
True and False
Published: 2002
Jeffrey A. Miron
Drug War Crimes
The Consequences of Prohibition
Published: 2004
William C. Mitchell
Beyond Politics (First Edition)
Markets, Welfare and the Failure of Bureaucracy
Published: 1994
Mike M. Moore
Twilight War
The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance
Published: 2008
Michael C. Munger
Is Social Justice Just?
Published: 2023
In All Fairness
Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity
Published: 2019
Future
Economic Peril or Prosperity?
Published: 2016
Robert P. Murphy
Choice
Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action
Published: 2015
Robert H. Nelson
The New Holy Wars
Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America
Published: 2010
Ernest C. Pasour, Jr.
Plowshares & Pork Barrels
The Political Economy of Agriculture
Published: 2005
Agriculture and the State
Market Processes and Bureaucracy
Published: 1990
Benjamin Powell
The Economics of Immigration
Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy
Published: 2015
Housing America
Building Out of a Crisis
Published: 2009
Making Poor Nations Rich
Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development
Published: 2007
Lawrence S. Powell
Risky Business
Insurance Markets and Regulation
Published: 2013
William Ratliff
Vietnam Rising
Culture and Change in Asia’s Tiger Cub
Published: 2008
Paul Craig Roberts
The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
Published: 1997
Alienation and the Soviet Economy
The Collapse of the Socialist Era
Published: 1990
Gabriel Roth
Street Smart
Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads
Published: 2006
Randal R. Rucker
Plowshares & Pork Barrels
The Political Economy of Agriculture
Published: 2005
David O. Sacks
The Diversity Myth
Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus
Published: 1998
George A. Selgin
Good Money
Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821
Published: 2011
William F. Shughart II
Taxing Choice
The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination
Published: 1997
Kenneth J. Sim
Nature Unbound
Bureaucracy vs. the Environment
Published: 2016
Aquanomics
Water Markets and the Environment
Published: 2012
Beyond Politics
The Roots of Government Failure (Revised and Updated Edition)
Published: 2011
Beyond Politics (First Edition)
Markets, Welfare and the Failure of Bureaucracy
Published: 1994
S. Fred Singer
Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Revised and Expanded Third Edition)
Published: 2021
Hot Talk, Cold Science (1999)
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate
Published: 1999
John W. Sommer
The Academy in Crisis
The Political Economy of Higher Education
Published: 1995
Edward P. Stringham
Anarchy and the Law
The Political Economy of Choice
Published: 2007
Richard L. Stroup
Cutting Green Tape
Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation and the Law
Published: 2000
Scott Sumner
The Midas Paradox
Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression
Published: 2015
Alexander T. Tabarrok
Judge and Jury
American Tort Law on Trial
Published: 2006
Changing the Guard
Private Prisons and the Control of Crime
Published: 2003
The Voluntary City
Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Published: 2002
Entrepreneurial Economics
Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science
Published: 2002
Peter A. Thiel
The Diversity Myth
Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus
Published: 1998
Richard H. Timberlake, Jr.
Money and the Nation State
The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System
Published: 1998
James Tooley
Really Good Schools
Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education
Published: 2021
Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Global Crossings
Immigration, Civilization, and America
Published: 2013
Lessons from the Poor
Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Published: 2008
The Che Guevara Myth
And the Future of Liberty
Published: 2006
Liberty for Latin America
How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression
Published: 2005
Richard K. Vedder
Restoring the Promise
Higher Education in America
Published: 2019
Can Teachers Own Their Own Schools?
New Strategies for Educational Excellence
Published: 2000
Out of Work
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Published: 1997
William J. Watkins, Jr.
Crossroads for Liberty
Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America’s First Constitution
Published: 2016
Patent Trolls
Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation
Published: 2014
Reclaiming the American Revolution
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy
Published: 2004
Robert M. Whaples
Is Social Justice Just?
Published: 2023
In All Fairness
Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity
Published: 2019
Pope Francis and the Caring Society
Published: 2017
Future
Economic Peril or Prosperity?
Published: 2016
Douglas Glen Whitman
Strange Brew
Alcohol and Government Monopoly
Published: 2003
Bruce Yandle
Regulation and the Reagan Era
Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest
Published: 1989
Ryan M. Yonk
Nature Unbound
Bureaucracy vs. the Environment
Published: 2016


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