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In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government begins by examining James Madison’s statement: “A good government implies two th...

Recent scientific advances have placed many traditional philosophical concepts under great stress. In this pathbreaking book, t...

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THE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER

"A truly excellent book… blistering and persuasive.” ―Ezra Klein, New York Times

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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered...

With a new foreword by Paul Kelly

'I regard Hayek's work as a new opening of the most fundamental debate in the field of pol...

In this candid and witty autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career, continual...

On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disapp...

People feel angry and let down by their leaders, as well as by the institutions that dominate their lives: political parties, g...

Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an awa...

Can a “radical free-market” economy help to end poverty and militarism while avoiding the quagmire of central planning? Don Lav...

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Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

“The best window I’ve ...

"Allison's comprehensive but accessible treatment of this vital subject is a major contribution to public understanding." -The ...

From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time National Book Award winner Robert A. Caro: a short, penetrating reflection on ...

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of...

Now in paperback, an intimate, elegant account of a society in turmoil: the most important book in a generation about the Chine...

There has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world’s most difficult problems, such as climate ch...

Recent military interventions gone wrong

It was an exclusive lunch at a high-end Manhattan restaurant on 7 March 2011. UN Se...

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**Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass s...

The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription ...