Bøker utgitt av Independent Institute,U.S.

The recent reawakening of the debate about migration in the new millennium has evoked intense emotion, particularly in the United States and Europe. Global Crossings cuts through the jungle of myth, falsehood, and misrepresentation that dominates the debate, clarifying the causes and consequences of human migration.

Analysing large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure, and community governance, this book provides suggestions on how to restore the vitality of city life. This book reveals how providing local public goods through freely competitive, market-based entrepreneurship is renewing communities and strengthening civil society.

Makes the case that free markets in high technology industry deliver better products to consumers, at lower prices, without government intervention. This publication's careful scholarship, well-founded hypotheses, and refutations of previously accepted theories-extending far beyond the Microsoft case-make this publication a vital piece of understanding for the future of technology and economics.

Economists Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok present their study of tens of thousands of tort cases from across the US. The result is the most complete picture of the US system of civil justice to date. Examining three of the key players of the tort system, Helland and Tabarrok conclude that the tort system is badly broken in some respects but functions surprisingly well in others.

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.