Independent Institute: 62 books
Willard Garvey
An Epic Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Maura McEnaney’s fascinating and wide-ranging biography of businessman and entrepreneur Willard Garvey is, in many ways, a history of 20th-century America itself. Having come of age during the Dust Bowl, Garvey rode the rails during the height of the Great Depression...
Taking a Stand
Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In his academic work, Robert Higgs has dissected the government’s shrewd secret excesses that lead to the Welfare State, the Warfare State, and the Administrative State. For several decades he has unstintingly chronicled the federal, state, and local governments’ malfeasance in these many areas...
by John C. Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In the groundbreaking book Priceless, renowned healthcare economist John Goodman reveals how patients, healthcare providers, employers, and employees are all trapped in a dysfunctional, bureaucratic, healthcare system fraught with perverse incentives that raise costs, reduce quality, and make care...
by Robert Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The history of the United States, from the 19th century to present day, is included in this examination of the very foundations of unwarranted government intrusiveness that illuminates the two essential elements that have led to the expansion of the state's authority—the ideology that the government...
Patent Trolls
Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Stiflers of innovation, patent trolls use overbroad patents based on dated technology to threaten litigation and bring infringement suits against inventors. Trolls, also known as nonpracticing entities (NPEs), typically do not produce products or services but are in the business of litigation. They...
by Robert Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
Exploring the politics and morality that pulled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this collection of essays, stories, and satirical pieces lambasts the highest officials in the executive branch for incompetence and moral blindness. Analyses of both wars and the crisis following...
Alienation and the Soviet Economy
The Collapse of the Socialist Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The first edition of this seminal book in 1971 pointed out the fatal defects of Marxist theory that would lead to the collapse of the Soviet economy. In this revised edition, Paul Craig Roberts examines how reality triumphed over Marxist theory and the implications for the future of Russia and eastern...
Lessons from the Poor
Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
An important contribution to the literature of economic development, this book presents case studies of productive entrepreneurship in contemporary Africa and Latin America. It looks at the growth of Kenya's chain stores and one-person kiosks, the rise of barter clubs in Argentina, and Nigeria's clothing-design...
The Terrible 10
A Century of Economic Folly
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The U.S. economy made impressive gains in the 20th century, but this progress makes it easy to forget a harsh reality: Americans were the victims of disastrous government policies that cost trillions of dollars in wasted resources, created mass unemployment, and kept millions of people in poverty...
Nature Unbound
Bureaucracy vs. the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
What if what we think we know about ecology and environmental policy is just wrong? What if environmental laws often make things worse? What if the very idea of nature has been hijacked by politics? What if wilderness is something we create in our minds, as opposed to being an actual description of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
The quest for freedom has always been as much a battle of ideas as it is a popular struggle. Classical liberal pioneers such as John Locke and Adam Smith stressed the inherent worth of the individual, inalienable rights, and the benevolent consequences of the cooperative, peaceful pursuit of one's...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Broken into four sections, this book illustrates the history of American foreign policy and demonstrates the current applicability of a non-interventionist model. For the past century, U.S. foreign policy has rested on the assumption that Americans’ interests are best served by active intervention...
Future
Economic Peril or Prosperity?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
What will the economy look like in fifty years? How will our lives as consumers and workers be transformed by the coming innovations in technology, the marketplace, and the workplace? How will changes in demographics and dependency affect our political system? Will economic freedom rise or fall? What,...
Recarving Rushmore
Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Evaluating presidents on the merits of whether their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty, this ranking system takes a distinctly new approach. Historians and scholars have long tended to give higher rankings to presidents who served during wartime, were well spoken, or exceeded in expanding...