Independent Institute: 62 books
Winners, Losers & Microsoft
Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Few issues in high technology are as divisive as the current debate over competition, innovation, and antitrust. Analyzing famous examples of economic “lock-in” by dominant corporations of supposedly inferior products, this book makes the case that free markets in high technology industry deliver...
Hazardous to Our Health?
FDA Regulation of Health Care Products
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Some have described the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a scientific bureaucracy with police powers. Does a “cult of infallibility” exist within the FDA, leading to decisions that are contrary to the best interests of patients and their physicians?The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is...
Failure
The Federal Miseducation of America's Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
For nearly 100 years the federal government left education almost entirely in the hands of the citizenry and state and local governments. But in 1979, with the creation of the US Department of Education, a sprawling bureaucracy with 153 programs, 5,000 employees, and an annual budget of approximately...
A Poverty of Reason
Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In this detailed economic investigation of sustainable development, a noted professor of economics argues that many of the alarms commonly sounded by environmentalists are, in fact, unfounded, and that current sustainable development policies should be reconsidered in light of their effects on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
Environmental quality has been a major public concern since the first Earth Day in 1970, yet the maze of environmental laws and regulations enacted since then has fostered huge government bureaucracies better known for waste and failure than for innovation and success.
Can we do better than...
by Robert Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Taking a close look at the dense fabric that our government weaves between war, state power, and economics, this collection of essays reveals the growing authority-and corruption-of the American state. Covering topics from the Lyndon Johnson presidency to the provocatively titled article Military-Economic...
Hot Talk, Cold Science
Global Warming's Unfinished Debate
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Are the often alarming claims about global warming based on science and justified by the facts? Is the human race really facing a major crisis due to emissions from fossil fuels? Would the proposed Climate Treaty solve a real environmental threat or would it create worldwide economic and social harm?...
by Robert Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Discussing how government has continually grown in size and scope during the past century, this account demonstrates that the main reason lies in government’s responses to national “crises” (real or imagined), including economic upheavals and, especially, war. The result, this book argues, is...
The Voluntary City
Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Assembling a rich history and analysis of large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure, and community governance, this book provides suggestions on how to restore the vitality of city life. Historically, the city was considered a center of...
by Peter J. Boettke
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A great supplemental text for the teaching of economics, this book offers a clear perspective and a passion for a deeper understanding of the subject. Economics is not merely a game to be played by clever professionals, but a discipline that touches upon the most pressing practical issues at any historical...
by Ivan Eland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Debunking numerous myths that have emerged about the world’s resources of oil, this book argues that the use of U.S. military power to secure oil is not only needless and costly—in both lives and money—but also counterproductive to U.S. security. Intended to make government, the media, and citizens...
Global Crossings
Immigration, Civilization, and America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The recent reawakening of the debate about migration in the new millennium has evoked intense emotion, particularly in the United States and Europe, and Global Crossings cuts through the jungle of myth, falsehood, and misrepresentation that dominates the debate, clarifying the causes and consequences...
Changing the Guard
Private Prisons and the Control of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
When prison privatization began in the United States in the early 1980s, many policy analysts claimed that the result would be higher costs, declining quality, and an erosion of state authority. Bringing together five of the leading researchers of prison privatization and criminology, this authoritative...
Faulty Towers
Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Setting the record straight about the institution of academic tenure, this book elucidates its history, legal status, and common misunderstandings. Meiners argues that the original aim of tenure—to ensure academic freedom and integrity—can still be achieved and that the belief by many professors...