Lehrman American Studies Center

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• The constitution of liberty by Friedrich A. Hayek
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  In this classic work Hayek restates the ideals of freedom that he believes have guided, and must continue to guide, the growth of Western civilization. Hayek's book, first published in 1960, urges us to clarify our beliefs in today's struggle…

• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
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• Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as If People Mattered by Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
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• Justice and Economic Distribution
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• The essential civil society reader: classic essays in the American civil society debate by Don E. Eberly
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• The Essential Communitarian Reader by Amitai Etzioni
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• Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman
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• The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
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• Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy by Henry George
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  To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state, and would strive for its attainment. -Henry George, Progress and Poverty Why do we…

• Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation by John C. Miller
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• Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
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• Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff by Arthur M. Okun
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• Alexander Hamilton's Financial Policies by Mildred Otenasek
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• I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society by Robert B. Reich
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  From the former Secretary of Labor, a plan to get the economy to work for everyone. With his characteristic humor, humanity, and candor, one of the nation"s most distinguished public leaders and thinkers delivers a fresh vision of politics by…

• Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers by Javier Santiso
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  Neither socialism nor free-market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America, writes Javier Santiso in this witty and literate reading of that region's economic and political condition. Latin America must move beyond utopian schemes and rigid ideologies…