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	Not with a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline by Theodore Dalrymple Ivan R. Dee Publisher, October 2008 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	A Manifesto for Media Freedom by Brian C. Anderson, Adam D. Thierer Encounter Books, September 2008 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	All About the Beat: Why Hip Hop Can't Save Black America by John H. McWhorter Gotham Books, June 2008 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's by Steven Malanga, Heather Mac Donald, Victor Davis Hanson Ivan R.Dee, November 2007 Each author explores an important aspect of the immigration debate, including the social, economic, and political results of current immigration policies. Together, the authors argue for an immigration policy similar to those of other advanced nations: one that admits skilled and educated people based on what they can do for the country, not what the country can do for them. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents by Brian C. Anderson ISI Books, June 2007 In Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents, City Journal editor Brian Anderson takes a hard look at the challenges facing democratic capitalism in a society searching for equality at all costs. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem—And the Consumer-Driven Cure by Regina E. Herzlinger McGraw-Hill, June 2007 Professor Herzlinger, often referred to as "the Godmother of Consumer-Driven Health Care" exposes the reality of our health care system; one that runs at the expense of those who most need it, patients, and those who most serve it, doctors. In Who Killed Health Care?, Herzlinger issues a call to arms to revolutionize our health care system with a consumer-driven cure. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups by Herman Badillo Sentinel, January 2007 "As the nation's first Puerto Rican-born U.S. congressman, the trailblazing Badillo supported bilingual education and other government programs he thought would help the Hispanic community. But Badillo came to see that the real path to prosperity, political unity, and the American mainstream is self-reliance, not big government. Badillo's solution to this problem relies on traditional values: hard work, education, and achievement. His lessons are important not only for Hispanics but for every American." AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age by Kay S. Hymowitz Ivan R. Dee, November 2006 Many scholars have explored the resulting breakdown of marriage over the past forty years and the exponential increase of divorce and out of wedlock birth rates. But Hymowitz adds something new: she shows how this marital breakdown is intricately connected to our high rates of poverty and inequality and threatens to turn the nation into "two Americas," one marriage-minded, child-centered, educationally successful, and affluent, the other marriage-indifferent, barely educated, and all too often financially precarious. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care by David Gratzer Encounter Books, October 2006 While American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. In this path-breaking book—Nobel laureate Milton Friedman calls it "fascinating and thorough"—Dr. David Gratzer goes to the heart of the problem, showing that the crisis in American health care stems largely from its addiction to outmoded and discredited economic ideas. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America by John H. McWhorter Dutton and Gotham Books, February 2006 McWhorter traces the decline of the black inner city since the Civil Rights movement and rejects the usual assumptions about black history and culture. In Winning the Race, McWhorter offers a compelling new vision for the future of black America. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy by Theodore Dalrymple Encounter Books, April 2006 Theodore Dalrymple believes that almost everything people know about opiate addiction is wrong. Using evidence from literature and pharmacology and drawing on examples from his own clinical experience, Dalrymple shows that addiction is not a disease, but a response to personal and existential problems. He argues that withdrawal from opiates is not a serious medical condition but a relatively trivial experience, and says that criminality causes addiction far more often than addiction causes criminality. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe About our Schools—and Why It Isn't So by Jay P. Greene Rowan & Littlefield, September 2005 Using his research and other published scholarship, Jay P. Greene provides evidence and arguments which debunk 18 commonly held myths about education. These myths, Dr. Greene argues, have distorted virtually every area of education policy and disentangling them is imperative to changing the system for the better. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The New New Left: How American Politics Works Today Tax Eaters vs. Taxpayers by Steven Malanga Ivan R. Dee, May 2005 A provocative and eye-opening analysis of a new dynamic that is reshaping American politics: a face-off between tax eaters and taxpayers. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple Ivan R. Dee, May 2005 In Our Culture, What's Left of It, Theodore Dalrymple explores the relationship between society and culture, examining how seemingly insignificant ideas in one realm may shape the hard realities in the other. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias by Brian C. Anderson Regnery Publishing, Inc., April 2005 Take a behind-the-scenes look at how conservatives—and even iconoclasts who don't consider themselves conservative—are overthrowing political correctness and the liberal media. From the bloggers who demolished Dan Rather to the Swift Boat veterans who sank John Kerry to the gleeful anti-political correctness of such comedic send-ups as South Park and Team America, the American media Landscape has suffered an earthquake. Brian Anderson illustrates how "South Park Conservatives" are changing everything. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Government 2.0: Using Technology to Improve Education, Cut Red Tape, Reduce Gridlock, and Enhance Democracy by William D. Eggers Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, January 2005 William Eggers explores how technology has revolutionized the dialogue between governments and their constituents. He provides detailed accounts of successful technology strategies and provides practical suggestions for using technology to provide government services, while addressing privacy and data safety concerns. This book is essential reading for policy makers, technology practitioners and cyber-savvy citizens. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The Bottomless Well: The twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste and Why we will Never Run Out Of Energy by Mark P. Mills, Peter W. Huber Basic Books, 2005 The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about these subjects. But according to Peter Huber and Mark Mills, the things we "know" are mostly myths. They explain why demand will never go down, why most of what we think of as "energy waste" actually benefits us; why more efficient cars, engines, and bulbs will never lower demand, and why energy supply is infinite. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policy-Makers by Regina E. Herzlinger Jossey-Bass, April 2004 Consumer-Driven Health Care discusses how increased consumer control of health care is shaking up the medical and insurance systems. Herzlinger states that hospitals, doctors, benefits administrators, accountants, government policymakers, and insurers had better adapt or else they will be replaced. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American by Tamar Jacoby Basic Books, 2004 Jacoby includes distinguished social scientists, prize-winning journalists and fiction-writers—thinkers like Nathan Glazer, Herbert Gans, John McWhorter, Michael Barone, Pete Hamill and Stanley Crouch in her look at the melting pot in America, and what it means to be an American in the age of globalization. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice by Sol Stern Encounter Books, May 2003 Breaking Free explores the growing demand for school choice among poor families in the inner city. Stern describes the dramatic successes and occasional failures of this new civil rights movement in three key cities: Milwaukee, Cleveland, and New York. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Are Cops Racist? How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans by Heather Mac Donald Ivan R. Dee, January 2003 Heather Mac Donald answers this question with a resounding, convincing "No." The portrayal of police officers as brutal and racist is not only wrong, it also undermines cops' effectiveness—thereby hurting, not helping, black Americans. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority by John H. McWhorter Gotham Books, January 2003 Addressing subjects as diverse as affirmative action, blacks on television, and the reparations movement, John McWhorter identifies and assesses black America�s tendency to publicly emphasize a victimhood it privately acknowledges to be a thing of the past. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law by Walter Olson Truman Talley Books/St. Martin's, January 2003 A gripping exploration of the growing power of massive class-action lawsuits. Olson shows how trial lawyers are rapidly becoming an unelected, unchecked and unbalanced fourth branch of government. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government by David Schoenbrod, Ross Sandler Yale University Press, January 2003 A penetrating account of the damaging effects of institutional reform litigation—lawsuits that aim to improve government by implementing wide-ranging reforms, but wind up transferring power from elected, accountable officials to lawyers. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age by Kay S. Hymowitz Ivan R. Dee, 2003 In Liberation's Children, Hymowitz chronicles the moral decline of modern America's privileged youth. Hymowitz argues that although our society produces overachievers dedicated to the gospel of "ecstatic capitalism," it leaves them without a sense of fulfillment. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom Simon & Schuster, 2003 Two distinguished experts on race in America offer a sober appraisal of the racial gap in education—and show how it can be overcome. No Excuses highlights inner-city schools across the country that are models of superb education and thus beacons of hope. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy by Howard Husock Ivan R. Dee, 2003 For more than seven decades, American government has acted to provide housing for the poor. In America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake, Howard Husock explains how, as with so many anti-poverty efforts, low-income housing programs have harmed those they were meant to help while causing grave collateral damage to cities and their citizens. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Beyond the Color Line: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom Hoover Institution Press, January 2002 A collection of 25 essays by some of America’s leading thinkers. Addressing such issues as racial preferences, education, and crime, these essays maintain that old civil-rights strategies cannot solve today’s problems. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	By Their Bootstraps: The Lives of Twelve Gilded Age Social Entrepreneurs by Martin Morse Wooster Manhattan Institute, 2002 Social entrepreneurs, individuals who employ private-sector talents to meet pressing public problems, are an increasingly important part of the American landscape. This collection of short biographic sketches is offered as a reminder of the principles of original social entrepreneurs in America and their tremendous potential for transforming today’s society. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple Ivan R. Dee, November 2001 Prison doctor and gifted essayist Theodore Dalrymple eloquently discusses the self-destructive worldview of the British underclass—a worldview created not by that underclass, however, but by an egotistical intelligentsia. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Modern Sex: Liberation and Its Discontents by Myron Magnet Ivan R. Dee, November 2001 A collection of essays culled from the pages of City Journal by its editor, Myron Magnet. Modern Sex demonstrates that the sexual revolution "has failed in its own terms," as Magnet writes, "to make us all happier, freer, more fulfilled, more alive." AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism by William McGowan Encounter Books, November 2001 William McGowan brilliantly shows how journalism’s well-intentioned quest for racial and ethnic diversity has led to skewed reporting, political correctness, and ideological monopoly in the press. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The Burden of Bad Ideas by Heather Mac Donald Ivan R. Dee, October 2000 A wide-ranging, scathing attack on elite opinion, particularly as it deals with issues involving race and poverty. The intellectual orthodoxy that insists on viewing the poor as oppressed victims, Mac Donald shows, is far more oppressive than anything it seeks to condemn. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	What Makes Charity Work? by Myron Magnet Ivan R. Dee, October 2000 These clear-sighted essays from City Journal contrast successful traditional philanthropy, which emphasized values and personal responsibility, with failed newer philanthropy, which emphasizes government-sponsored social engineering. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The Millennial City: A New Urban Paradigm for 21st-Century America by Myron Magnet Ivan R. Dee, May 2000 The recent renaissance of America?s cities is no accident. Rather, it is due to a coherent set of policies and principles, spelled out in these City Journal essays, that light the way toward urban prosperity and growth. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	How We Got Here: The 70s: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life—for Better or Worse by David Frum Basic Books, January 2000 Senior Fellow David Frum, author of Dead Right, has written a political and cultural history of America since the Seventies. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists by Peter W. Huber Basic Books, January 2000 MI Senior Fellow Peter Huber, author of—among other books—Liability, Galileo's Revenge, and Judging Science, brings his profound understanding of science and public policy to bear in Hard Green. He offers a new vision for market-friendly environmentalism that evokes Theodore Roosevelt's conservationism. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future—and Ours by Kay S. Hymowitz The Free Press, October 1999 Kay Hymowitz, MI Senior Fellow and City Journal Contributing Editor, examines the impoverished concept of childhood that now dominates American popular culture. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The Entrepreneurial City: A How-To Handbook for Urban Innovators by The Center for Civic Innovation The Manhattan Institute, 1999 Newly-elected mayors and others interested in urban policy need look no further than The Entrepreneurial City to learn what America’s new breed of innovative mayors have done in recent years to improve the quality of life in their cities. The Entrepreneurial City includes essays from some of these “supermayors” and other urban policy experts on seven topics: Managing City Finances, Improving Education, Reducing Crime, Cutting Regulation, Increasing Economic Development, Welfare, and Civil Society. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration by Tamar Jacoby The Free Press, June 1998 A thoroughly researched history of race relations in three American cities since the civil-rights era. This book captures the heartbreaking collapse of the early ideals of integration and color-blindness. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America by Stephen Goldsmith Regnery Publishing, December 1997 The fascinating first-hand account of an innovative mayor's introduction of market-based governance in big-city America. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom Simon & Schuster, September 1997 A monumental study of race in America over the last fifty years. This book highlights unheralded truths about the socioeconomic, educational, and cultural condition of African-Americans. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The Excuse Factory: How Employment Law Is Paralyzing the American Workplace by Walter Olson The Free Press, June 1997 Walter Olson documents how a web of regulations, laws, and court decisions has fouled and restricted employers' and employees' relationships and freedoms. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts by Peter W. Huber, Kenneth R. Foster MIT Press, May 1997 A probing account of the nature of science and its use and abuse in the judicial system. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm by Peter W. Huber Oxford University Press, 1997 Peter Huber's latest work is a meticulous history of telecommunications regulation and a call for opening the telecosm to unfettered competition. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling, Catherine M. Coles The Free Press, November 1996 Newly released in paperback, this work outlines the policing strategies that have led to dramatic reductions in crime rates in New York and other major cities. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Assimilation, American Style by Peter D. Salins Basic Books, 1996 A brilliant examination of the American melting pot. In this work, Salins argues that the integration of immigrants and ethnic groups into mainstream American society has formed the foundation of this nation's success and that the goal of cultural assimilation remains vital to the American future. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter W. Huber The Free Press, 1994 A fascinating experiment in fiction, political analysis and technology, Orwell’s Revenge is 1984 rewritten. Peter Huber (and his computer) boldly perpetrate “the quintessentially Orwellian crime—a crime of plagiarism, forgery, artistic vandalism, and historic revisionism.” AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Miracle in East Harlem: The Fight for Choice in Public Education by Seymour Fliegel Random House, August 1993 The inspirational account of how a unique school-choice program helped turn around the lives of some of New York City's most disadvantaged youths. In Miracle in East Harlem, Fliegel, who developed District Four's school-choice program, documents how educational innovation can overcome the greatest challenges confronting urban education, from poverty to bureaucracy. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law by Peter W. Huber, Kenneth R. Foster, David E. Bernstein MIT Press, June 1993 A fascinating collection of in-depth case studies examining how unsettled scientific disputes have aroused public fears and led to legal mayhem. Phantom Risk brings together distinguished scientific experts to describe today's most complicated scientific controversies and their legal results. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass by Myron Magnet William Morrow, March 1993 Cited by George W. Bush as the second-most-important book he had ever read—right after the Bible. The Dream and the Nightmare argues that today's underclass owes its existence to the cultural revolution of the Sixties, a revolution that was effected by the prosperous but suffered by the poor. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History by Donald N. McCloskey Oxford University Press, March 1993 This book examines the past as a way of preparing for the future. McCloskey has brought together leading economic historians who show that commonly accepted perceptions of our economic past can be wrong and, therefore, misleading. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Scarcity by Design: The Legacy of New York's Housing Policies by Peter D. Salins, Gerard Mildner Harvard University Press, December 1992 Addressing issues that are hotly debated in the Big Apple and other cities across the nation, Peter Salins and Gerard Mildner analyze New York's policies and assess their largely detrimental effects on housing quality and availability. They show how programs that were instituted for the benefit of both investors and the poor - by directly and indirectly subsidizing housing construction and by capping rents - have instead caused misallocation of housing, exacerbated tensions between tenants and landlords, progressively stifled private investment, and resulted in building deterioration and abandonment. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	The Twilight of Sovereignty: How the Information Revolution is Transforming Our World by Walter B. Wriston Charles Scribner's Sons, October 1992 An explanation of how the revolution in information technology has fundamentally changed our daily lives and altered our conceptions of the nation-state. Wriston, the former chairman of Citicorp, argues that in this global information age, a new democratic order is dramatically transforming our public and private institutions in ways unfathomable just a few years ago. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation by Linda Chavez Basic Books, October 1991 The untold story of Hispanic progress in America. Hispanics, Chavez argues, are following the path blazed by earlier immigrants and entering the American mainstream–a trajectory threatened not by poverty or racism, but by misguided programs like affirmative action and bilingual education which actively hinder Hispanic assimilation into American society. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom by Peter W. Huber Perseus Book Group, August 1991 A seminal work on the emerging class of lawyers and expert witnesses who push forward unsubstantiated legal claims on the basis of "junk science." In Galileo's Revenge, Huber offers a scathing indictment of how legal professionals have shifted the law away from serious science. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	The Litigation Explosion: What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit by Walter Olson Penguin Books, 1991 Called the best book ever written on the subject of lawsuits in the United States. Both serious and entertaining, Olson's Litigation Explosion documents how America has become the most litigious society in the world. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Health, Lifestyle and Environment: Countering the Panic by The Social Affairs Unit, Manhattan Institute Manhattan Institute, 1991 This book is not available on the Manhattan Institute website. For further info please e-mail Dolores Garrigo, dgarrigo@manhattan-institute.org. | READ MORE
	The Growth Experiment: How the New Tax Policy Is Transforming the U.S. Economy by Lawrence B. Lindsey Basic Books, April 1990 One of the most respected defenses of supply-side tax policy to date. Lindsey, a former Governor of the Federal Reserve, outlines the case for tax cuts and sets forth a plan for improving our current tax system. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Free Banking and Monetary Reform by David Glasner Cambridge University Press, August 1989 This book boldly challenges the conventional view that the state must play a dominant role in the monetary system. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future by Peter D. Salins Basil Blackwell, November 1988 A broad-ranging series of prescriptions for improving New York, in such areas as education, public housing and welfare, by replacing failed big-government policies with market-driven strategies. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government by Charles Murray Simon & Schuster, October 1988 Charles Murray’s fascinating thesis—that analysts, as they evaluate public policy, mistakenly fail to consider how it affects people’s happiness—leads him on a far-ranging, thought-provoking exploration of what constitutes happiness, how analysts can begin to take it into consideration, and how policy can regard it as a goal worth achieving. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences by Peter W. Huber Basic Books, 1988 One of the first works to explain the recent transformation of American liability law and the litigation explosion it unleashed. In this book, Huber shows how the dramatic increase in liability lawsuits has undermined the very principles that brought it about in the first place — safety and freedom. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	New Directions in Liability Law by Walter Olson Academy of Political Science, 1988 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Privatization: The Key to Better Government by E. S. Savas Chatham House, November 1987 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	How NATO Weakens the West by Melvyn Krauss Simon & Schuster, October 1986 Krauss calls the North Atlantic Treaty Orgnaization a "lopsided partnership" and believes that continued European dependence on American protection and weapons is "absurd." The main thrust of his argument is that the removal of U.S. troops and subsidies would increase, not decrease, European, Japanese and South Korean efforts in their own defense (and save the U.S. billions of dollars). AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	From Adam Smith to the Wealth of America by Alvin Rabushka Transaction Books, June 1985 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	The Rise and Fall of New York City by Roger Starr Basic Books, April 1985 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 by Charles Murray Basic Books, September 1984 The book that has indelibly shaped the debate over welfare in America. In this ground-breaking work, Murray argues that the massive social programs of the 1960's have not only failed to improve conditions for poor Americans, but have perpetuated and intensified the disadvantages that the Great Society set out to eradicate. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE
	Secrets of the Tax Revolt by James Ring Adams Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, July 1984 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Power and Privilege: Labor Unions in America by Morgan O. Reynolds Universe, March 1984 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	The Supply-Side Solution by Timothy Roth, Bruce Bartlett Chatham House, October 1983 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	The State Against Blacks by Walter Williams McGraw-Hill, October 1982 A critical look at race in America. Williams argues that while bigotry and discrimination may be a partial explanation for the condition of many blacks in America, they are not the only, or the most important, reasons why many blacks are behind. Instead, he shows, a myriad of local, state, and federal laws systematically impede economic and social progress for minorities in America. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Regulation by Prosecution by Roberta Karmel Simon & Schuster, March 1982 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	The Economy in Mind by Warren Brookes Universe, 1982 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Development Without Aid by Melvyn Krauss McGraw-Hill, 1982 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Privatizing the Public Sector by E. S. Savas Chatham House, 1982 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	The Governing of Agriculture by Bruce Gardner Regents Press of Kansas, December 1981 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Markets and Minorities by Thomas Sowell Basic Books, September 1981 One of the classic works on the economic and social problems confronting minorities. In this volume, Sowell shatters myths about the impact of discrimination in the lives of minorities, and shows that the market can significantly improve the economic condition of American minorities. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	The Ecology of Housing Destruction by Peter D. Salins NYU Press, February 1980 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder Basic Books, 1980 One of the most influential economic books published in the past quarter-century. Frequently cited as the intellectual basis for Ronald Reagan's economic policy, Wealth and Poverty reassesses Keynesian welfare economics and presents the basics of supply-side economic theory. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	The U.S. Balance of Payments and the Sinking Dollar by Wilson Schmidt NYU Press, 1979 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
	The New Protectionism: The Welfare State and International Trade by Melvyn Krauss NYU Press, June 1978 AVAILABLE AT AMAZON

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