Previous Books

Fall 2022 The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel

Spring 2022 Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall

Fall 2021 Socialism Sucks: Two Economist Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell

Spring 2021 More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources―and What Happens Next by Andrew McAfee

Fall 2020 How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley

Spring 2020 The Essential Adam Smith by James Otteson; Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century by Veron L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson; The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford

Fall 2019 The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto.

Spring 2019 WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird by Peter T. Leeson

Fall 2018 Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght

Spring 2018 Environmental Markets: A Property Rights Approach by Terry Anderson and Gary Libecap

Fall 2017 Mainline Economics: Six Nobel Lectures in the Tradition of Adam Smith featuring F. A. Hayek, James M. Buchanan, Ronald H. Coase, Douglass C. North, Vernon L. Smith, and Elinor C. Ostrom

Spring 2017 Various Articles and Chapters from Dr. Doug Walker, Dr. Robert Lawson, Dr. Todd Nesbit, and Dr. Jennifer Baker

Spring 2016 Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity by William Baumol, Robert Litan, and Carl Schramm

Fall 2015 White-collar government: The hidden role of class in economic policy making by Nicholas Carnes; Beyond Politics: The Roots of Government Failure by Randy Simmons

Spring 2015 The Tyranny of Experts: Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly

Fall 2014 Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change by Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. Lopez 

Spring 2014 In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic by David Wessel

Fall 2013 Why Most Things Fail by Paul Ormerod

Spring 2013 The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly

Fall 2012 Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

Spring 2012 Keynes Hayek by Nicholas Wapshott

Fall 2011 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

Spring 2011 Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations by David Warsh

Fall 2010 The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson; Uncommon Sense by Gary Becker and Richard Posner

Spring 2010 A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell

Fall 2009 The Economics of Public Issues byRoger LeRoy Miller, Daniel K. Benjamin, and Douglas C. North

Spring 2009 The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman