Independent Institute Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America
Mary Grabar@MaryGrabar not only sets out to refute the 1619 Project’s factual assertions in her book, Debunking The 1619 Project, but to resist the rhetoric it employs. @TimothySandefur reviews the book at the link below: https://t.co/j0pPQXYODt
Paperback, 2022
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
War and the Rogue Presidency: Restoring the Republic After Congressional Failure
Ivan Eland"Biden's Foreign Policy Unnecessarily Drives China and Russia Together in Opposition" Senior Fellow @Ivan_Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency Op-Ed in @EagleTrib >>> https://t.co/yMqqDJoy0m
Hardcover, 2019
$27.95Member price:$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Highway Heist: America's Crumbling Infrastructure and the Road Forward
James T. Bennett"You Use the Roads, Don't You?" 🛣️ 📚 Highway Heist by Research Fellow James Bennett, cited on @aier >>> https://t.co/nNubiDyuvV
Hardcover, 2022
$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy
James M. BuchananThe Calculus of Consent by @JamesMBuchanan and Gordon Tullock is one of the great books in the public choice tradition. @art_carden discusses public choice in the book in @Econlib https://t.co/Nsf8gWVqsv
Paperback, 2004
$14.50Member price:$7.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Ludwig Von MisesLudwig von Mises’s Human Action may be the twentieth century’s best treatise of economics and political economy, but it’s hardly the best understood. More here >> https://t.co/jK5OHkacax @PeterBoettke https://t.co/cc9MipvXBf
Paperback, 2012
$35.00Member price:$35.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Animal Farm
George OrwellGeorge Orwell’s Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, with all their brilliance and predictive power, do not exhaust the wisdom of the 1940s, still available for deployment. Consider, for example, The Road to Serfdom, first published in 1944. https://t.co/u5CSy3Mvo1
Hardcover, 1990
$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Why?
William SearchSenior Fellow at Independent Institute, @ccoyne1’s, In Search of Monsters to Destroy is a must-read book on America’s recent foreign policy failures. 📚Order your copy TODAY to see why people, like William R. Easterly, love this eye-opening book! https://t.co/E5mjbkQ1af https://t.co/FAkO0R1nzE
Paperback, 2021
$11.99Member price:$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age
R. Douglas ArnoldSocial Security will soon be insolvent, and over the last three decades Congress has done nothing to fix the problem. Douglas Arnold attributes this failure to the politics of reform in a polarized age in his book. Read Barry W. Poulson’s review here #TIR: https://t.co/KzTS7trFNN
Paperback, 2024
$22.95Member price:$20.66 + Free shipping10% off
Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It
Steve ForbesInflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It Check out Robert M. Whaples’s review of the book, Inflation, written by @SteveForbesCEO, Nathan Lewis, and Elizabeth Ames. https://t.co/IzzJpLcKY6
Paperback, 2024
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
Robert Higgs"Hayek, Friedman, Mises, and Rothbard on the Political Economy of Free Speech" Senior Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan cited on @lewrockwell https://t.co/o0strcgDaN
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