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  • af James T. Bennett
    323,95 kr.

    "The Congressional Budget Office has laid out seven infrastructure categories: highways, public transit, wastewater treatment, water resources, air traffic control, airports, and municipal water supply. This book focuses on a broadened version of the first and, in many ways, most visible and historically significant category: roads and bridges, as well as their aquatic kin, the nineteenth-century canal. Also examined is US transportation policy from the Constitutional Convention through the presidency of Donald Trump-that is, from "internal improvements" in antebellum America to the current trope of "crumbling infrastructure.""--

  • - Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education
    af James Tooley
    318,95 kr.

    "Almost overnight a virus has brought into question America's nearly 200-year-old government-run K-12 school-system-and prompted an urgent search for alternatives. But where should we turn to find them? Enter James Tooley's Really Good Schools. A distinguished scholar of education and the world's foremost expert on private, low-cost innovative education, Tooley takes readers to some of the world's most impoverished communities located in some of the world's most dangerous places-including India and such war-torn countries as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and South Sudan. There, in places where education "experts" fear to tread, Tooley finds thriving private schools that government, multinational NGOs, and even international charity officials deny exist. Why? Because the very existence of low-cost, high-quality private schools shatters the prevailing myth in the U.S., U.K., and western Europe that, absent government, affordable, high-quality schools for the poor could not exist. But they do. And they are ubiquitous and in high demand. Founded by unheralded, local educational entrepreneurs, these schools are proving that self-organized education is not just possible but flourishing-often enrolling far more students than "free" government schools do at prices within reach of even the most impoverished families"--

  • - Global Warming's Unfinished Debate
    af S. Fred Singer
    288,95 kr.

    Explores the inaccuracies in historical climate data, the limitations of attempting to model climate on computers, solar variability and its impact on climate, the effects of clouds, ocean currents, and sea levels on global climate, and factors that could mitigate any human impacts on world climate.

  • - Power and Democracy in American History
    af Randall G. Holcombe
    298,95 kr.

    Provides an account of the political history that transformed the fundamental principle of American government form liberty to democracy. And why that shift from the protection of liberty to democratic collectivism has serious and negative economic and political consequences.

  • - Higher Education in America
    af Richard K. Vedder
    348,95 kr.

    With up-to-date discussions of the most recent developments on university campuses, this book is the most comprehensive assessment of universities in recent years, and one that decidedly rejects conventional wisdom. This is an absolute must-read for those concerned with the future of higher education in America.

  • - Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"
    af Stephen P. Halbrook
    243,95 kr.

  • - Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action
    af Robert P. Murphy
    288,95 kr.

    Human Action, a treatise on laissez-faire capitalism by Ludwig von Mises, is a historically important and classic publication on economics, and yet it can be an intimidating work due to its length and formal style. Choice, however, skilfully relays the main insights from Human Action in a style that will resonate with modern readers.

  • - Multiculturalism and the Political Intolerance on Campus
    af David O. Sacks & Peter A. Thiel
    238,95 kr.

    A powerful exploration of the debilitating impact that politically-correct ""multiculturalism"" has had upon higher education and academic freedom in the United States. This book exposes the real impact of multiculturalism on the institution most closely identified with the politically correct decline of higher education - Stanford University.

  • - Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
    af Robert Higgs
    238,95 kr.

    Discussing how government has continually grown in size and scope during the past century, this account demonstrates that the main reason lies in government's responses to national "crises" (real or imagined), including economic upheavals and, especially, war. It will appeal to those with interests in political economy, American history, and libertarian politics.

  • - Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821
    af George Selgin
    288,95 kr.

    This book not only examines the crucial role of private coinage in fueling Great Britain's Industrial Revolution, but also sheds light on contemporary private-sector alternatives to government-issued money, such as digital monies, cash cards, electronic funds transfer, and - outside of the United States - spontaneous 'dollarization'.

  • - The Consequences of Prohibition
    af Jeffrey A. Miron
    178,95 kr.

    Offers a sophisticated analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition. Miron argues that prohibition's effects on drug use have been modest and that prohibition has numerous side effects, most of them highly undesirable. Miron's analysis leads to a disturbing finding - the more resources given to the fight against drugs, the greater the homicide rate.

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