Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?
By: Virgil Henry Storr
3.63
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The most damning criticism of markets is that they are morally corrupting. As we increasingly engag…
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1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
2. Competition and Entrepreneurship
By: Israel M. Kirzner
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Paperback
Stressing verbal logic rather than mathematics, Israel M. Kirzner provides at once a thorough criti… read more
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3. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
By: Henry Hazlitt
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lessonis a classic economic primer. But it … read more
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4. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
By: Robert D. Putnam
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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5. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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6. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- philosophy
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7. Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
By: Peter T. Leeson
3.91
Format: 20 pages, Hardcover
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! "The Invisible Hook" takes readers i… read more
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8. Economical Writing
By: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
A valuable short guide for mastering the craft of academic writing! Students and young professional… read more
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9. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
By: Friedrich A. Hayek , W.W. Bartley III
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors o… read more
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10. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
By: Michael J. Sandel
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for… read more
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11. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
By: Daron Acemoğlu
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite a… read more
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"The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic…"-Daron Acemoğlu, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
12. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
By: Greg Lukianoff
3.93
Format: 432 pages, ebook
A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more
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"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
13. Social Justice Fallacies
By: Thomas Sowell
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more
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14. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- economics
15. Why Liberalism Failed
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.86
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more
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"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
16. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
By: Kevin J. Mitchell
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how … read more
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17. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
18. Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
By: Russell "Russ" Roberts
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the host of EconTalk, a guide to decision-making when you can't crunch the numbers Algorith… read more
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"Exploring can turn out much better than a planned itinerary."-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
"Spend more time getting used to the darkness and less time looking to expand the light."-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
"If the important things are hard to measure, and the measurable things misleading, what kind of decision framework is left? This book is my answer to that question."-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
19. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
By: Jennifer Burns
4.26
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside J… read more
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20. Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
By: Elizabeth S. Anderson
3.99
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it One in four Am… read more
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"Most workplace governments in the United States are dictatorships, in which bosses govern in ways that are largely unaccountable to those who are governed. They don’t merely govern workers; they domi…"-Elizabeth S. Anderson, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
21. The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
By: Johan Norberg
4.31
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A vital exploration of capitalism and the benefits it brings to global society. Marx and Engels we… read more
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"Kinas övergång till kapitalism var med andra ord ett resultat av gräsrötternas initiativ och mod. Det fanns ingen plan för det – allt som gjorde Kina rikt hände utanför femårsplanerna."-Johan Norberg, The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
22. Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
By: Marian L. Tupy
4.28
Format: 580 pages, Hardcover
“For centuries, the ivory towers of academia have echoed this sentiment of multitudinous ends and l… read more
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"Progress does not mean that we will ever reach a paradisiacal end state where everything will be optimal for everyone everywhere. New problems will arise, and they will have to be solved, however imp…"-Marian L. Tupy, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
23. Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?
By: Virgil Henry Storr
3.63
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The most damning criticism of markets is that they are morally corrupting. As we increasingly engag… read more
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24. The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate
By: Phil Gramm
4.35
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2022: Politics • Winner of the 2024 Hayek Book Prize, Manhattan … read more
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25. Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism
By: Christopher J. Coyne
4.40
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Many Americans believe that foreign military intervention is central to protecting our domestic fre… read more
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26. The Struggle for a Better World
By: Peter J. Boettke
3.91
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
In The Struggle for a Better World, Peter J. Boettke explores how the social sciences, and politica… read more
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27. The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty (The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan)
By: James M. Buchanan
4.38
Format: 546 pages, Paperback
The thirty-one papers presented in this volume offer scholars and general readers alike a comprehen… read more
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28. National Economic Planning: What Is Left?
By: Don Lavoie
4.12
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
by Don Lavoie; George Mason University. Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, A S… read more
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29. Taxocracy: What You Don't Know About Taxes and How They Rule Your Daily Life
By: Scott Hodge
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What You Don’t Know About Taxes and How They Rule Your Daily Life won’t help you lower your tax bi… read more
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30. Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
By: Ilya Somin
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But it has two major shortc… read more
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31. The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World
By: David Skarbek
3.95
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule… read more
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