Books & History
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Are Free Traders Guilty of Naïve Globalism?
“Free trade does indeed enrich the world. But it also, and chiefly, enriches the people of each country that practices it, regardless of the policies pursued elsewhere.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Do Our Roads Have to be Built by Government?
“Roads don’t have to be built by government, and we would be better off if we had left it to private enterprise and voluntary cooperation.” ~ George Leef
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How Our Higher Education System Could Put Students First
“I fear that LeBlanc underestimates the ability of the educational status quo to fend off competition from new institutions and approaches. Bureaucratic regimes tend to change very slowly and are usually dominated by the concerns of existing entities.” ~ George Leef
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The Case for Bringing Back Neckties (and Classical Liberalism)
“Liberalism—or, to clarify, classical liberalism, which developed a few centuries ago and cherishes free markets, limited government, and flourishing social institutions—is (like the necktie) a bit out of favor.” ~ Bruce Rottman
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How Media Bias Caused the Moral Panic Surrounding Climate Change
“The political effort to limit economic growth by reducing the use of fossil fuels and changing the face of agriculture—will have a far greater long-term effect than the recent pandemic on people’s lives in the United States and worldwide.” ~ Peter J. Wallison
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From a Shadow Constitution to a Network State
“With The Network State, Balaji Srinivasan has written a startup manual. Those two different-but-overlapping domains (ought to and how to) might seem confusing at first. But together, they’re a one-two punch against legacy powers.” ~ Max Borders
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Capitalism’s Cure for Economic Sins
“Anyone who takes economic ideas and their moral implications seriously would do well to clear space on their bookshelf for Seven Deadly Economic Sins.” ~ Richard Morrison
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Where Is the Free Market Utopia?
“Philippon explains why we should embrace competition, and if more people do so after reading The Great Reversal, he will have done an important job.” ~ Art Carden
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A Foreword to Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“Admirers of The Theory of Moral Sentiments range across academic and scholarly fields and disciplines, across countries and continents, and, most remarkably, across landscapes of political ideology.” ~ Daniel B. Klein
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The Upside-Down Constitution and Its Critics
“The nature of the constitutional instrument tells you how to read it. Once you see that, but only once you see it, the clauses make all the sense in the world and you will know how to read them.” ~ Michael S. Greve
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Are Free Traders Guilty of Naïve Globalism?
“Free trade does indeed enrich the world. But it also, and chiefly, enriches the people of each country that practices it, regardless of the policies pursued elsewhere.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Do Our Roads Have to be Built by Government?
“Roads don’t have to be built by government, and we would be better off if we had left it to private enterprise and voluntary cooperation.” ~ George Leef
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How Our Higher Education System Could Put Students First
“I fear that LeBlanc underestimates the ability of the educational status quo to fend off competition from new institutions and approaches. Bureaucratic regimes tend to change very slowly and are usually dominated by the concerns of existing entities.” ~ George Leef
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The Case for Bringing Back Neckties (and Classical Liberalism)
“Liberalism—or, to clarify, classical liberalism, which developed a few centuries ago and cherishes free markets, limited government, and flourishing social institutions—is (like the necktie) a bit out of favor.” ~ Bruce Rottman
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How Media Bias Caused the Moral Panic Surrounding Climate Change
“The political effort to limit economic growth by reducing the use of fossil fuels and changing the face of agriculture—will have a far greater long-term effect than the recent pandemic on people’s lives in the United States and worldwide.” ~ Peter J. Wallison
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From a Shadow Constitution to a Network State
“With The Network State, Balaji Srinivasan has written a startup manual. Those two different-but-overlapping domains (ought to and how to) might seem confusing at first. But together, they’re a one-two punch against legacy powers.” ~ Max Borders
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Capitalism’s Cure for Economic Sins
“Anyone who takes economic ideas and their moral implications seriously would do well to clear space on their bookshelf for Seven Deadly Economic Sins.” ~ Richard Morrison
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•
Where Is the Free Market Utopia?
“Philippon explains why we should embrace competition, and if more people do so after reading The Great Reversal, he will have done an important job.” ~ Art Carden
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A Foreword to Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“Admirers of The Theory of Moral Sentiments range across academic and scholarly fields and disciplines, across countries and continents, and, most remarkably, across landscapes of political ideology.” ~ Daniel B. Klein
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The Upside-Down Constitution and Its Critics
“The nature of the constitutional instrument tells you how to read it. Once you see that, but only once you see it, the clauses make all the sense in the world and you will know how to read them.” ~ Michael S. Greve