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Here are the titles available.
- A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State
- A New Deal for Social Security
- A Search for Enemies: America's Alliances After the Cold War
- After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century
- America Entangled: The Persian Gulf Crisis and Its Consequences
- An American Vision: Policies for the 90s
- Antitrust Policy: The Case for Repeal
- Apocalypse Not: Science, Economics, and Environmentalism
- Assessing the Reagan Years
- Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility, and The Constitution
- Best of Byline 1986
- Beyond Liberal and Conservative: Reassessing the Political Spectrum
- Beyond NATO: Staying out of Europe's Wars
- Beyond the Status Quo: Policy Proposals for America
- China in the New Millennium: Market Reforms and Social Development
- Clearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution
- Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming
- Collective Defense or Strategic Independence: Alternative Strategies for the Future
- Common Cents, Common Dreams: A Layman's Guide to Social Security Privatization
- Competing Visions: The Political Conflict over America's Economic Future
- Defining Defense: The 1985 Military Budget
- Delusions of Grandeur: The United Nations and Global Intervention
- Designing Defense for a New World Order: The Military Budget in 1992 and Beyond
- Destroying Democracy: How Government Funds Partisan Politics
- Dollars, Deficits, and Trade
- Economic Reform in China: Problems and Prospects
- Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe
- Energy: Ending the Never-Ending Crisis
- Exiting the Balkan Thicket
- Failure & Progress: The Bright Side of the Dismal Science
- Flag-Burning, Discrimination, and the Right to Do Wrong: Two Debates
- Forfeiting Our Property Rights: Is Your Property Safe from Seizure?
- Free the Mail: Ending the Postal Monopoly
- Freedom to Trade: Refuting the New Protectionism
- Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society
- Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism
- Grassroots Tyranny: The Limits of Federalism
- Haunted Housing: How Toxic Scare Stories are Spooking the Public Out of House and Home
- Immigration: The Economic and Demographic Facts
- Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams
- Left, Right, Babyboom: America's New Politics
- Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City
- Making America Poorer: The Cost of Labor Law
- Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century
- Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy
- National Economic Planning: What Is Left?
- NATO at 40: Confronting a Changing World
- NATO Enlargement: Illusions and Reality
- NATO's Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the Balkan War
- Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis
- Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis (Abridged)
- Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World
- Plant Closings: Public or private choices?
- Pocket Constitution (Arabic/Bilingual Version)
- Pocket Constitution (Spanish/Bilingual Version)
- Porkbarrel: The Unexpurgated Grace Commission Story of Congressional Profligacy
- Quagmire: America in the Middle East
- Regulators' Revenge: The Future of Telecommunications Deregulation
- Renaissance: The Rebirth of Liberty in the Heart of Europe
- Rent Control: The Perennial Folly (Cato Public Policy Research Monograph No. 2)
- Scalia v. Epstein: Two Views on Judicial Activism
- School Choice: Why You Need It — How You Get It
- Science without Sense: The Risky Business of Public Health Research
- Silencing Science
- Social Security: Averting the Crisis
- Social Security: Prospects for Real Reform
- Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction
- Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming
- Telecommunications in Crisis: The First Amendment, Technology, and Deregulation
- Telecompetition: The Free Market Road to the Information Highway
- The Affirmative Action Fraud: Can We Restore the American Civil Rights Vision?
- The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment
- The Crisis in Drug Prohibition
- The End of Welfare: Fighting Poverty in Civil Society
- The Financial Services Revolution: Policy Directions for the Future
- The Future of Money in the Information Age
- The Government Factor: Undermining Journalistic Ethics in the Information Age
- The High Cost of Farm Welfare
- The Last Monopoly: Privatizing the Postal Service for the Information Age
- The New Right v. The Constitution
- The Peasant Betrayed: Agriculture and Land Reform in the Third World
- The Politics and Law of Term Limits
- The Revolution in Development Economics
- The Rule of Experts: Occupational Liscencing in America
- The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton
- The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming
- Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered
- Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World
- Underground Government: The Off Budget Public Sector
- Water Markets: Priming the Invisible Pump
- What Has Government Done to Our Health Care?
- Why Schools Fail
- Zoning, Rent Control and Affordable Housing