Books Sought
Fiction
1985 - Anthony Burgess
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Memoir of Antproof Case - Mark Helprin
Roughing It - Mark Twain
Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
The Spce Trilogy, Omnibus Edition - C.S. Lewis
Political Philosopy
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism - Michael Novak
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism - Larry Siedentop
Individualism: A Reader - George H. Smith
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea - Edmund Fawcett
After Liberalism - Mass Democracy in the Managerial State - Paul Edward Gottfried
The End of Socialism - James Otteson
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Karl Popper
Liberalism - Ludwig von Mises
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction - Will Kymlicka
The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law - Randy E. Barnett
The Order of Public Reason - Gerald Gaus
The State - Anthony de Jasay
On Power - Bertrand De Jouvenel
Individualism and Economic Order - Friederich Hayek
The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey - Michael Huemer
The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically - Franz Oppenheimer
The System of Liberty: Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism - George H. Smith
Contemporary Politics
The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections After Four Decades - Douglas S. Massey
The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation - Walter Blum
The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take - Bruce Bartlett
Eight Ways to Run the Country: A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right - Brian Patrick Mitchell
The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet - Pierre Desrochers
Water for Sale: How Business and the Market Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis - Fredrik Segerfeldt
Spoiled Rotten - Jay Cost
New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America - Burton W. Folsom Jr.
The Great Global Warming Blunder: Ho Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists - Roy W. Spencere
The Israel Test - George Gilder
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Make Bad Policies - Bryan Caplan
Politics, Markets, and America's Schools - John E. Chubb
Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought - Jonathan Rauch
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality - G.A. Cohen
Economics
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - Daron Acemoglu
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy - Dani Rodrik
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities - Mancur Olson
Man, Economy, and State - Murray N. Rothbard
Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics - George Reisman
Capitalism - God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World - Walter Russell Mead
Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power - John Steele Gordon
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor - David S. Landes
The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought - Jerry Z. Muller
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America - David Stockman
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States - Michael Lind
Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism - Joseph Heath
The Economists View of the World: Government, Markets and Public Policy - Steven E. Rhoads
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism - Brink Lindsey
The End of Poverty - Jeffrey D. Sachs
Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff - Arthur M. Okun
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States - Albert O. Hirschman
From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays - P.T. Bauer
Social Science
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment - Mark Kleiman
In Defense of Flogging - Peter Moskos
The Division of Labor in Society - Emile Durkheim
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
Social Statics - Herbert Spencer
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
The Pivot of Civilization - Margaret Sanger
Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century - Amy L. Wax
Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct - Thomas Szasz
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious - Timothy D. Wilson
Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It - Kenneth L. Higbee
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters - Alan S. Miller
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
Escape from Freedom - Erich Fromm
Eros and Civilization - Herbert Marcuse
Political History
Gulag: A History - Anne Applebaum
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States - Seymour Martin Lipset
From Under the Rubble - I.R. Shafarevich
Mao: The Unknown Story - Jung Chang
The God That Failed - Richard Crossman
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Courtois, Repression
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers - Tom Wolfe
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Self-Help - Samuel Smiles
A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton G. Malkiel
Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts - Stephen Toulmin
The Essential Drucker - Peter F. Drucker
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression - Amity Shlaes
Witness - Whittaker Chambers
The Theory of Gambling and Statistic Logic - Richard Epstein
Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose - Francis-Noel Thomas
Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society - Paul Hollander
Getting Back Together - Robert Houriet
The Moral Sense - James Q. Wilson
Moral Matters - Jan Narveson
The Structures of Everyday Life - Fernand Braudel
The State of Humanity - Julian Simon
The Ultimate Resource 2 - Julian Simon
The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective - Angus Maddison
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals - Saul Alinsky
The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
The Moral Animal - Robert Wright
Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State - G.K. Chesterton
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences - Charles Murray
Three Famines - Thomas Keneally
Edly's Music Theory for Practical People - Ed Roseman
Lord Acton's History of Liberty: A study of His Library - George Watson
Principles For A Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With The Common Good - Richard A. Epstein
Simple Rules for a Complex World - Richard A. Epstein
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Free Market Fairness - John Tomasi
The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute for Social Research - Martin Jay
The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt
The Perennial Philosophy - Alduous Huxley
Are Economists Basically Immoral: And Other Essays - Paul Heyne
The Economic Way of Thinking - Paul Heyne
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution - Theodore Draper
Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers 1973-1980 - Bernard Williams
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believers Guide to the Uses of Religion - Alain de Botton
Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It - Ronald Aronson
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life - Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
The Thomas Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth - Thomas Jefferson
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design - Richard Dawkins
1985 - Anthony Burgess
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Memoir of Antproof Case - Mark Helprin
Roughing It - Mark Twain
Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
The Spce Trilogy, Omnibus Edition - C.S. Lewis
Political Philosopy
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism - Michael Novak
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism - Larry Siedentop
Individualism: A Reader - George H. Smith
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea - Edmund Fawcett
After Liberalism - Mass Democracy in the Managerial State - Paul Edward Gottfried
The End of Socialism - James Otteson
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Karl Popper
Liberalism - Ludwig von Mises
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction - Will Kymlicka
The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law - Randy E. Barnett
The Order of Public Reason - Gerald Gaus
The State - Anthony de Jasay
On Power - Bertrand De Jouvenel
Individualism and Economic Order - Friederich Hayek
The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey - Michael Huemer
The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically - Franz Oppenheimer
The System of Liberty: Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism - George H. Smith
Contemporary Politics
The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections After Four Decades - Douglas S. Massey
The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation - Walter Blum
The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take - Bruce Bartlett
Eight Ways to Run the Country: A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right - Brian Patrick Mitchell
The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet - Pierre Desrochers
Water for Sale: How Business and the Market Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis - Fredrik Segerfeldt
Spoiled Rotten - Jay Cost
New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America - Burton W. Folsom Jr.
The Great Global Warming Blunder: Ho Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists - Roy W. Spencere
The Israel Test - George Gilder
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Make Bad Policies - Bryan Caplan
Politics, Markets, and America's Schools - John E. Chubb
Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought - Jonathan Rauch
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality - G.A. Cohen
Economics
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - Daron Acemoglu
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy - Dani Rodrik
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities - Mancur Olson
Man, Economy, and State - Murray N. Rothbard
Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics - George Reisman
Capitalism - God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World - Walter Russell Mead
Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power - John Steele Gordon
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor - David S. Landes
The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought - Jerry Z. Muller
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America - David Stockman
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States - Michael Lind
Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism - Joseph Heath
The Economists View of the World: Government, Markets and Public Policy - Steven E. Rhoads
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism - Brink Lindsey
The End of Poverty - Jeffrey D. Sachs
Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff - Arthur M. Okun
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States - Albert O. Hirschman
From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays - P.T. Bauer
Social Science
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment - Mark Kleiman
In Defense of Flogging - Peter Moskos
The Division of Labor in Society - Emile Durkheim
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
Social Statics - Herbert Spencer
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
The Pivot of Civilization - Margaret Sanger
Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century - Amy L. Wax
Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct - Thomas Szasz
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious - Timothy D. Wilson
Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It - Kenneth L. Higbee
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters - Alan S. Miller
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
Escape from Freedom - Erich Fromm
Eros and Civilization - Herbert Marcuse
Political History
Gulag: A History - Anne Applebaum
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States - Seymour Martin Lipset
From Under the Rubble - I.R. Shafarevich
Mao: The Unknown Story - Jung Chang
The God That Failed - Richard Crossman
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Courtois, Repression
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers - Tom Wolfe
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Self-Help - Samuel Smiles
A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton G. Malkiel
Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts - Stephen Toulmin
The Essential Drucker - Peter F. Drucker
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression - Amity Shlaes
Witness - Whittaker Chambers
The Theory of Gambling and Statistic Logic - Richard Epstein
Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose - Francis-Noel Thomas
Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society - Paul Hollander
Getting Back Together - Robert Houriet
The Moral Sense - James Q. Wilson
Moral Matters - Jan Narveson
The Structures of Everyday Life - Fernand Braudel
The State of Humanity - Julian Simon
The Ultimate Resource 2 - Julian Simon
The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective - Angus Maddison
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals - Saul Alinsky
The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
The Moral Animal - Robert Wright
Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State - G.K. Chesterton
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences - Charles Murray
Three Famines - Thomas Keneally
Edly's Music Theory for Practical People - Ed Roseman
Lord Acton's History of Liberty: A study of His Library - George Watson
Principles For A Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With The Common Good - Richard A. Epstein
Simple Rules for a Complex World - Richard A. Epstein
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Free Market Fairness - John Tomasi
The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute for Social Research - Martin Jay
The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt
The Perennial Philosophy - Alduous Huxley
Are Economists Basically Immoral: And Other Essays - Paul Heyne
The Economic Way of Thinking - Paul Heyne
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution - Theodore Draper
Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers 1973-1980 - Bernard Williams
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believers Guide to the Uses of Religion - Alain de Botton
Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It - Ronald Aronson
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life - Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
The Thomas Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth - Thomas Jefferson
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design - Richard Dawkins