Books Arranged by Topic

General Policy Books

• The Cato Handbook for Congress (1997)
• Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century (1993)
• The Politics of Plunder: Misgovernment in D.C. (1990)
• Left, Right, and Babyboom: America's New Politics (1986)
• Beyond the Status Quo: Policy Proposals For America (1985)

Constitutional Studies

• Affirmative Action Fraud: Can We Restore the American Civil Rights Vision? (1996)
• Simple Rules for a Complex World (1995)
• Forfeiting Our Property Rights: Is Your Property Safe from Seizure? (1995)
• The Politics and Law of Term Limits (1994)
• Grassroots Tyranny: The Limits of Federalism (1993)

Education

• Why Schools Fail (1996)
• School Choice: Why You Need It--How You Get It (1994)
• Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City (1990)
• Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe (1995)
• Privatization and Educational Choice (1989)

Environment and Natural Resource Studies

• Haunted Housing: How Toxic Scare Stories are Spooking the Public Out of House and Home (1997)
• Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered (1996)
• Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience (1996)
• The State of Humanity (1995)
• Apocalypse Not: Science, Economics, and Environmentalism (1993)
• Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming (1992)
• Visions Upon the Land: Man and Nature on the Western Range (1992)
• Generating Failure: Public Power Policy in the Northwest (1989)
• The Mirage of Oil Protection (1988)
• Water Crisis: Ending the Policy Drought (1983)

Fiscal Policy

• Reaganomics: An Insiders Account of the Policies and the People (1988)
• Underground Government: The Off-Budget Public Sector (1983)

Foreign Policy

• Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World (1996)
• The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment (1995)
• Beyond NATO: Staying Out of Europe's Wars (1994)
• Quagmire: America in the Middle East (1992)
• America Entangled: The Persian Gulf War and Its Consequences (1991)
• Designing Defense for a New World Order (1991)
• The U.S.-South Korean Alliance: Time for a Change (1991)
• NATO at 40: Confronting a Changing World (1990)
• Collective Defense or Strategic Independence? (1989)

Global Economic Liberty

• Economic Freedom of the World: 1975-1995 (1996)
• Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World (1994)
• Prosperity Versus Planning: How Government Stifles Economic Growth (1992)
• Africa Betrayed (1992)
• Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Ecomony (1990)
• Economic Reform in China: Problems and Propects (1990)
• South Africa's War against Capitalism (1989)
• Peasant Betrayed: Agriculture and Land Reform in the Third World (1989)

Health and Welfare

• The End of Welfare: Fighting Poverty in the Civil Society (1996)
• Science Without Sense: The Risky Business of Public Health Research (1995)
• Patient Power: The Free-Enterprise Alternative to Clinton's Health Plan (1994)
• Failure and Progress: The Bright Side of the Dismal Science (1993)
• Making America Poorer: The Cost of Labor Law (1987)
• Social Security: Prospects for Real Reform (1985)
• Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction (1980)

Monetary and Banking Policy

• The Future of Money in the Information Age (1997)
• Money and Markets in the Americas: New Challenges for Hemispheric Integration (1996)
• Monetary Policy in the U.S.: An Intellectual and Institutional History (1993)
• Governing Banking's Future: Markets vs. Regulation (1991)
• Dollars, Deficits, and Trade (1989)
• Competition and Currency: Essays on Free Banking and Money (1989)
• Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply Under Competitive Note Issue (1988)
• The Search for Stable Money: Essays on Monetary Reform (1987)

Privatization

• The Last Monopoly: Privatizing the Postal Service for the Information age (1996)
• School Choice: Why You Need It--How You Get It (1994)
• Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City (1990)
• Generating Failure: Public Power Policy in the Northwest (1989)
• Free the Mail: Ending the Postal Monopoly (1989)
• Privatization and Educational Choice (1989)
• Competition and Currency: Essays on Free Banking and Money (1989)
• Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply Under Competitive Note Issue (1988)
• Monopoly Mail: Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service (1988)
• Social Security: Prospects for Real Reform (1985)
• Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction (1980)

Regulation

• Haunted Housing: How Toxic Scare Stories are Spooking the Public Out of House and Home (1997)
• Telecompetition: The Free Market Road to the Information Highway (1993)
• Rent Control, Zoning, and Affordable Housing (1991)
• Antitrust Policy: The Case for Repeal (1986)
• Competing Visions: The Political Conflict over America's Economic Future (1985)
• Plant Closings: Public or Private Choices? (1982)

Social Issues

• The End of Welfare: Fighting Poverty in the Civil Society (1996)
• Affirmative Action Fraud: Can We Restore the American Civil Rights Vision? (1996)
• Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe (1995)
• The Government Factor: Undermining Journalistic Ethics in the Information Age (1995)
• School Choice: Why You Need It--How You Get It (1994)
• Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought (1993)
• The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies? (1992)
• Reclaiming the Mainstream: Individualist Feminism Rediscovered (1992)
• Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City (1990)
• The Crisis in Drug Prohibition (1990)
• Privatization and Educational Choice (1989)
• Equity and Gender: The Comparable Worth Debate (1988)

Books No Longer Available from the Cato Institute

The following titles are no longer available from the Cato Institute. However, some books may still be available through another publisher or in many university and city libraries.

• The American Job Machine (copublished with Universe Books, New York)
• Assessing the Reagan Years
• Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility, and the Constitution
• The Best of Byline
• Beyond Liberal & Conservative
• The Case for Gold
• The Economic Consequences of Immigration (copublished with Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA)
• Economic Liberties and the Judiciary (copublished with George Mason University Press, Fairfax, VA)
• The Excluded Americans: Homelessness and Housing Policies (copublished with Regnery Gateway, Washington, DC)
• The Financial Services Revolution
• Freedom, Feminism & the State (a new edition is available from the Independent Institute, Oakland, CA)
• Friedman & Hayek on Liberty (Russian translation)
• The Fundamentals of Austrian Economics (a second edition was published by the Adam Smith Institute, London)
• The Future of Social Security
• The High Cost of Farm Welfare
• National Economic Planning: What Is Left?
• The New Right vs. the Constitution
• Porkbarrel: The Unexpurgated Grace Commission Story of Congressional Profligacy
• Public Choice and Constitutional Economics (copublished with Jai Press, Greenwich, CT)
• The Regulation of Medical Care: Is the Price Too High? (a photocopied version is available for $10.00. Send orders to the library at the Cato Institute.)
• Rent Control: The Perennial Folly
• The Rule of Experts: Occupational Licensing in America (a photocopied version is available for $10.00. Send orders to the library at the Cato Institute.)
• Social Security: Averting the Crisis
• Solidarity with Liberty (Polish translation)
• The Suicidal Corporation (copublished by Simon & Schuster, New York)
• Telecommunications in Crisis
• The Theory of Market Failure (copublished with George Mason University Press, Fairfax, VA)

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