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Acs, Zoltan J.and Armington, Catherine (2006) Entrepreneurship, Geography, and American Economic Growth. Cambridge University Press.
Altshuler, Alan and Luberoff, David (2003) Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Amacher, Ryan and Meiners, Roger (2004) Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education. Oakland: The Independent Institute.
Anderson, Chris (2006) The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. Hyperion.
Anderson, Terry L. (2004) You Have to Admit It's Getting Better: From Economic Prosperity to Environmental Quality. Hoover Institution Press .
Anderson, Terry L. and Peter J. Hill (2004) The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier. Stanford University Press.
Anderson, Terry L. and Donald R. Leal (2001) Free Market Environmentalism. Revised Ed. New York: Palgreve.
Anderson, Terry L. and Fred S. McChesney (eds.) (2003) Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict and Law. Princeton University Press.
Anderson, Terry L. (2000) Political Environmentalism: Going behind the Green Curtain. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press.
Ayres, Ian (2007) Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart. Bantam.
Azfar, Omar and Charles A. Cadwell (2003) Market-Augmenting Government. University of Michigan Press.
Bailey, Ronald (2005) Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution. Prometheus Books.
Bailey, Ronald (2002) Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death. Prima Lifestyles.
Balaker, Ted, Staley, Sam (2006) The Road More Traveled: Why the Congestion Crisis Matters More Than You Think, and What We Can Do About It. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Barzel, Yoram (2001) A Theory of the State: Economic Rights, Legal Rights and the Scope of the State. Cambridge University Press.
Barro, Robert J. (1997) Getting It Right: Markets and Choices in a Free Society. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Barzel, Yoram (2001) A Theory of the State: Economic Rights, Legal Rights and the Scope of the State. Cambridge University Press.
Bauer, Peter. (1983) Equality, the Third World and Economic Delusion. Harvard University Pres.
Baumol, William J. and Litan, Robert E. and Schramm, Carl J. (2007) Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity. Yale University Press.
Beinhocker, Eric D. (2006) Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics. Harvard Business School Press.
Beito, David T., Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok, eds. (2002) The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Bernstein, Peter L (1992) Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street. New York: Free Press.
Bernstein, Peter L (2007) Capital Ideas Evolving. Wiley.
Bethell, Tom (1998) The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Boarnet, Marlon G., Crane, Randall (2001) Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel. Oxford University Press.
Bogart, William T. (2006) Don't Call It Sprawl: Metropolitan Structure in the 21st Century. Cambridge University Press.
Brooks, David (2000) Bobos in Paradise. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Brooks, David (2004) On Paradise Drive. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Brown, Clair, Haltiwanger, Lane, Julia (2006) Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America?. University of Chicago Press.
Bruegmann, Robert (2005) Sprawl: A Compact History. University Of Chicago Press.
Bryson, Bill. (2004) A Short History of Nearly Everything. Broadway.
Buck, Susan (1998) The Global Commons: An Introduction. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Buchanan, James M. (1999) The Collected Works of James Buchanan. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.
Burleigh, Michael. (2007) Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror. HarperCollins.
Caplan, Bryan (2007) The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. Princeton University Press.
Chavan, Abhijeet and Peralta, Christian and Steins, Christopher (eds; 2007) Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning (Paperback). Washington DC: Island Press.
Chernick, Howard (ed.) (2005) Resilient City: The Economic Impact of 9/11. Russell Sage Foundation Publications.
Cippola, Carlo M. (1981) The Economic History of World Population. Middlesex, UK: Penguin Books.
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Coase, R.H. (1988) The Firm, the Market and the Law. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Cole, Daniel H. (2002) Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection. Cambridge University Press.
Collier, Paul (2007) The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Oxford University Press.
Cowen, Tyler (2007) Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist. Dutton Adult.
Cowen, Tyler (ed; 1988) The Theory of Market Failure: A Critical Examination. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press.
Cox, W. Michael and Richard Alm (1999) Myths of the Rich and Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think. New York: Basic Books.
Cox, Wendell (2006) War on the Dream: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life. iUniverse, Inc..
Cukierman, Alex and Zvi Hercowitz and Leonardo Leiderman (eds., 1992) Political Economy, Growth and Business Cycles. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
DeLong, James V. (1997) Property Matters: How Property Rights are Under Assault and Why You Should Care. New York: The Free Press.
Dennett, Daniel C. (2003) Freedom Evolves. New York: Viking.
DeSoto, Hernando (1989) The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World. New York: Harper and Row.
DeSoto, Hernando (2000) The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. New York: Basic Books.
Diamond, Jared (1999) Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: WW Norton and Co.
DiLorenzo, Thomas (2004) How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present. Crown Forum.
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Downs, Anthony (1994) New Visions for Metropolitan America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
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Fischel, William A. (1995) Regulatory Takings: Law, Economics and Politics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Fischel, William A. (1985) The Economics of Zoning Laws: A Property Rights Approach to American Land Use Controls. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Foldvary, Fred (1994) Public Goods and Private Communities. Brookfield, VA: Edward Elgar.
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Frantz, Douglas and Catherine Collins (2000) Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town. New York: Henry Holt and Co.
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Friedman, Milton and Friedman, Rose D. (2002) Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press.
Furubotn, Eirik G. and Rudolf Richter (2000) Institutions and Economic Theory: The Contribution of the New Instititonal Economics. University of Michigan Press.
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Gerondeaux, Christian (1997) Transport in Europe. Norwood, MA: Artech House, Inc.
Gladwell, Malcolm (2005) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Little Brown and Company.
Gibbon, Edward (2005) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Modern Library.
Gilbert, Daniel (2006) Stumbling on Happiness. Knopf.
Goklany, Indur (2007) The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet. Cato Institute.
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose and William B. Tye and Clifford Winston (eds.; 1999) Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Hall, Sir Peter (2001) Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation and Urban Order. New York: Phoenix Publishers.
Harford, Tim. (2008) The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World. New York: Random House.
Harford, Tim. (2005) The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!. Oxford University Press.
Hayek, F.A. (1988) The Fatal Conceit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hayek, F.A. (1994) The Road to Serfdom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hayward, Steven F. (2006) 11th Annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators 2006. Heartland Institute.
Heller, Michael (2008) The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives. Basic Books.
Henderson, David R. (editor) (2008) The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Liberty Fund Inc.
Herrnstein, Richard, Wilson, James (1998) Crime Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime. Free Press.
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Heyne, Paul (1999) The Economic Way of Thinking (10th ed) New York: Prentice-Hall.
Higgs, Robert (2004) Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society. Independent Institute.
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Hill, Peter J. and Roger E. Meiners (ed. 1998) Who Owns the Environment? Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield.
Hirschman, Albert O. (1977) The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Hirschman, Albert O. (1970) Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations and States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Hirschman, Albert O. (1958) The Strategy of Economic Development. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Huber, Peter W. and Mills, Mark P. (2006) The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy. New York: Basic Books.
Hunt, Lynn. (2007) Inventing Human Rights: A History. W. W. Norton.
Jacobs, Jane (1984) Cities and the Wealth of Nations. New York: Random House.
Jacobs, Jane (1961) The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House.
Judt, Tony (2008) Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century. The Penguin Press HC.
Katznelson, Ira and Weingast, Barry R. (2005) Preferences And Situations: Points of Intersection Between Historical And Rational Choice Institutionalism. Russell Sage Foundation Publications.
Kershaw, Ian (2007) Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941. Penguin Press.
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Klein, Daniel B. (1998) Three Libertarian Essays. New York: Foundation of Economic Education.
Klein, Daniel B. (ed, 1997) Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Klein, Daniel B., Adrian T. Moore and Binyam Reja (1997) Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
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