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Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

by Rose Friedman, Milton Friedman

Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war" How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic... (more)

Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives

Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives

by Grover Glenn Norquist

One of the nation's most influential political strategists provides a daring manifesto and vision for conservatives. The modern Republican party is a coalition of groups and tendencies created during the political life of Ronald Reagan, based on principle rather than region and history. The new political movement that now controls much of the Republican party is one of Americans who simply wish to be left... (more)

In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State

In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State

by Charles A. Murray

Murray offers a plan to eliminate all federal welfare programs and to substitute a $10,000 annual cash grant for everyone age 21 or older.

Tyranny of the Status Quo

by Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman

The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America

The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America

by John Micklethwait

How, in a relatively short time, did America veer so far to the right as to become incomprehensible to Europe, as it would no doubt be to Richard Nixon? And why is it likely to remain so no matter who occupies the Oval Office? Like latter-day de Tocquevilles, English journalists John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge explain this new America, and the conservative movement that shaped it, with a freshness... (more)

Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest

Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest

by Milton Friedman

The Nobel Prize winner writes here on current issues of prevailing concern to every American citizen and taxpayer, displaying the powers of analysis and expression that have made him one of the most widely respected economists in America. Edited and with an Introduction by William R. Allen.

An American Vision: Policies for the 90'sEdward H. Crane, David Boaz

An American Vision: Policies for the 90's

by David Boaz

How Democracies PerishJean-Francois Revel, Branko M. Lazic

How Democracies Perish

by Jean Franc?ois Revel

Text: English (translation) Original Language: French

Frontiers of Tax Reform (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

Frontiers of Tax Reform (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

Michael J. Boskin, together with many of the world's leading scholars and policy makers who met at a Washington, D. C., conference in May 1995 sponsored by the Hoover Institution, sheds light on five major tax reform proposals now finding strong proponents in Congress: flat tax, value-added tax, national retail sales tax, the Nunn-Domenici USA Tax, and a hybrid progressive consumption tax. The unique insights... (more)

The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It

The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It

by Amity Shlaes

The Greedy Hand is an illuminating examination of the culture of tax and a persuasive call for reform, written by Amity Shlaes of The Wall Street Journal. This book is a cultural examination of the way taxes influence our behavior, how they force us into an arbitrary system that punishes families and individual enterprise. Shlaes unveils the hidden perversities of our lifelong tax experience: how family tax breaks... (more)

Restoring Hope in America: The Social Security Solution

Restoring Hope in America: The Social Security Solution

by Sam Beard

Outlays from Social Security are predicted to exceed income beginning about 2013. Beard, chairman of the National Development Council, has a response to this looming problem that resembles campaign literature: it makes a direct appeal to the grass roots, has good sound bites? "a plan that can... turn every hard-working American into a millionaire"?and avoids the tough questions. His proposal of a two-tiered scheme... (more)

A New Deal for Social Security

by Peter J. Ferrara

This book examines the history of Social Security and predicts that the system will face bankruptcy withing the next few years.

Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate over Tax Reform

Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate over Tax Reform

by Joel Slemrod

"A sensible and down to earth guide through the thicket of tax reform, a much needed primer that should be widely read." -- Richard Musgrave, H. H. Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University Who should pay taxes, how should they be collected, and how do they affect the economy? Should the income tax be tinkered with, replaced with a flat tax, or left alone? Cutting through the... (more)

Privatization in Chile: An Economic AppraisalRolf Luders, Dominique Hachette

Privatization in Chile: An Economic Appraisal

by Dominique Hachette

Text: English Original Language: Spanish

EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World

EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World

by Mark Skousen

EconoPower will provide you with a firm understanding of the influence of modern economics and how it can be used to improve the world we live in. It offers practical advice on numerous personal financial matters—earning, saving, investing, and retiring—based on the breakthrough contributions of behavioral economists. And it looks at how economists are working successfully on issues such as public education,... (more)

Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

by Walter E. Williams

In unyielding defense of personal liberty In this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights and brutal honesty. He offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics, always with an uncompromising reverence for... (more)

Democracy in America

by Alexis De Tocqueville

Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. With an Original Preface and Notes by John C. Spencer. New York: Adlard and Saunders, 1838. xxx, 464 pp. Reprint available 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002025957. ISBN 1-58477-249-2. Cloth. $85. Reprint of the first English-language edition. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville <1805-1859> and Gustave de Beaumont... (more)

The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

by F. A. Hayek

This classic by one of the 20th century's leading libertarian thinkers has established itself beside the works of Orwell and others as a timeless meditation on the relationship between human freedom and government authority. Hayek argues that empowering government with increasing economic control leads not to utopia but to horrors such those seen in Nazi Germany.

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

by Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman

Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman and his wife Rose teamed to write this convincing guide that illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and a free society. 9 cassettes.

Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America

Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America

by Newt Gingrich

America's future in the twenty-first century, argues Newt Gingrich, will be determined by the decisions we make now. His book is a grass roots call to action--and will set the debate for the new administration and Congress.

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by Rose Friedman, Milton Friedman

by Grover Glenn Norquist

by Charles A. Murray

by Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman

by John Micklethwait

by Milton Friedman

by David Boaz

by Jean Franc?ois Revel

by Amity Shlaes

by Sam Beard

by Peter J. Ferrara

by Joel Slemrod

by Dominique Hachette

by Mark Skousen

by Walter E. Williams

by Alexis De Tocqueville

by F. A. Hayek

by Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman

by Newt Gingrich