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  • The Independent Review

    The Best of the First 30 Years

    Edited by Robert M. Whaples ...
    Celebrate 30 years of The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy with the acclaimed magazine's highest caliber scholarship by some of the world's leading experts.For over thirty years, The Independent Review has been a beacon of clear, fearless, and wide-ranging scholarship—bringing together some of the sharpest minds in economics, history, law, philosophy, and political thought. Now, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unsung Heroes of the Market

    The 24 Underrated Economists You Need to Know

    by Christopher J. Coyne, Gregory J. Robson, Diana W. Thomas ...
    You’ve heard of Adam Smith and Milton Friedman. But the economists whose quiet brilliance has kept the free market running? You don’t see them on book covers—until now.Edited by Robert M. Whaples, Co-Editor and Managing Editor of the acclaimed academic journal The Independent Review, Unsung Heroes of the Market: The 24 Underrated Economists You Need to Know reveals a cast of overlooked thinkers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Is Social Justice Just?

    Edited by Robert M. Whaples, Michael C. Munger, Christopher J. Coyne ...
    “Anyone concerned with social justice will find this book makes him question his assumptions, rethink his premises, and think!”—Andrew P. Morriss, professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, School of Law, Texas A&M UniversityWhat is social justice?In these pages, twenty-one accomplished academics seek to do justice to “social justice.” Inequality exists and obviously causes rifts in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • In All Fairness

    Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity

    Edited by Robert M. Whaples, Michael C. Munger, Christopher J. Coyne ...
    Has growing concern about inequality led to proposals to remake American society according to ill-conceived and coercive "egalitarian" measures that are fundamentally unjust and harmful?This unique book reveals the modern romance with equality of outcomes as destructive folly. Those elites and bureaucrats who advocate such notions claim that they champion the poor—but more often than not the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic History

    by Jac. C. Heckelman, John C. Moorhouse, Robert M. Whaples ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Jac C. Heckelman, John C. Moorhouse and Robert Whaples The eight chapters of this volume are revised versions of papers originally presented at the "Applications of Public Choice Theory to Economic History" conference held at Wake Forest University, April 9-10, 1999. They all apply the tools of public choice theory to the types of questions which economic historians have traditionally addressed. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Future

    Economic Peril or Prosperity?

    Edited by Robert M. Whaples, Christopher J. Coyne, Michael C. Munger ...
    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, if anything, would greater prosperity do for one’s total well-being?Future: Economic Peril or ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pope Francis and the Caring Society

    Edited by Robert M. Whaples ...
    Pope Francis and the Caring Society is a thoughtful and in-depth exploration of the Pope’s earnest call for a dialogue on building a truly compassionate society.Francis’s fervent support for uplifting the poor and protecting the environment has inspired far-reaching discussions worldwide: What is the most effective way to fight poverty? Can environmental resources be better protected with property ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis of social capital, civic engagement, and American democracy that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to demonstrate how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to a more communitarian “We” society and then back again, and how we can ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • All One in Christ

    A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory

    by Edward Feser ...
    What does the Catholic Church teach about racism? What should Catholics think about Critical Race Theory, which is currently being widely promoted in the name of antiracismAll One in Christ lucidly explains the Church's clear and consistent condemnation of racism, showing that the condemnation is not a recent development but deeply rooted in centuries of papal teaching and Scholastic theology.This ... Read more

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  • The Machinery of Government

    Public Administration and the Liberal State

    by Joseph Heath ...
    In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully executed by a lower cadre of public servants. The complexity of the modern state, however, leaves this model outdated. The vast number of economic and social problems it confronts is such that a great deal of rule-making power is now delegated to a class of civil ... Read more

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  • After Piketty

    Edited by Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, Marshall Steinbaum ...
    Are Thomas Piketty’s analyses of inequality on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas he pushed to the forefront of global conversation? In After Piketty, a cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Equality and Efficiency REV

    The Big Tradeoff

    by Arthur M. Okun ...
    Series series A Brookings Classic
    Originally published in 1975, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff is a very personal work from one of the most important macroeconomists of the last hundred years. And this new edition includes ""Further Thoughts on Equality and Efficiency,"" a paper published by the author two years later.In classrooms Arthur M. Okun may be best remembered for Okun's Law, but his lasting legacy is the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD