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Selected Books and Articles on Regulation
Almasi, D. W. et al. (2007). Shattered dreams: 100 stories of government abuse . Washington: National Center for Public Policy Research.
Cochrane, J. (2015). “The Rule of Law in the Regulatory State “. An essay prepared for the conference, The Foundation Of Liberty: Magna Carta After 800 Years held at the Hoover Institution, June 25 2015.
De Soto, Hernando (1989). The other path: the invisible revolution in the Third World . New York: Harper & Row.
DiLorenzo, T. (2017). “The truth about the ‘robber barons’. ” Mises Daily Articles , Mises Institute.
Dudley, Susan, E. (2016). “Speaker Ryan’s call for regulatory humility .” Opinion in Forbes , June 15.
Dudley, Susan E., & Brito, Jerry (2012). Regulation: a primer . Mercatus, & GWU Regulatory Studies.
Frey, Bruno S (2010). Happiness: a revolution in economics . (Munich Lectures in Economics). MIT Press.
George, H. (1905). Protection or Free Trade . New York: Doubleday. Library of Economics and Liberty [Online].
Gigerenzer, G. (2015). On the supposed evidence for libertarian paternalism . Review of Philosophy and Psychology , 6(3), 361-383.
Gorman, Linda (2008). “Minimum wages ,” in David R. Henderson (ed.), The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics , 2nd Ed. Library of Economics and Liberty.
Gratzer, David (2008). The cure: How capitalism can save American health care . Encounter Books.
Green, K. C., & Armstrong, J. S. (2015). Regulating choice: The need for evidence . Submission 237 to the Australian Senate Economics References Committee Inquiry into “Personal choice and community impacts”. K. C. Green testified as an expert witness at a public hearing on 11 September at Parliament House in Canberra.
Green, K. C., & Armstrong, J. S. (2012). Evidence on the effects of mandatory disclaimers in advertising . Journal of Public Policy & Marketing , 31, 293 – 304.
Green, K. C., & Armstrong, J. S. (2008). “Uncertainty, the precautionary principle, and climate change .” Essay on ForecastingPrinciples.com and elsewhere.
Grier, J. (2017). “We used terrible science to justify smoking bans “. Slate , Feb 13.
Hayek, F. A. (1944). The road to serfdom . UK: Routledge. [Link is to 1945 Readers Digest version, with supplements, from IEA.]
Kealey, Terence. (1996). The economic laws of scientific research . Palgrave Macmillan.
Lott, John R. (2013). Murder and homicide rates before and after gun bans . Crime Prevention Research Center: crimeresearch.org.
Lott, John, R. (2010). More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Third Edition (Studies in Law and Economics), 3rd Edition, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
McCloskey, D. N. (2016). Bourgeois equality: how ideas, not capital or institutions, enriched the world . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
McGovern, George (1992). A politician’s dream is a businessman’s nightmare . Wall Street Journal, June 1, A12.
Murray, Charles (2015). By the people: rebuilding liberty without permission . Crown Forum.
Neumark, D. (2015). The effects of minimum wages on employment . FRBSF Economic Letter , 2015-37.
Neumark, D., & Wascher, W. L. (2007). Minimum wages and employment. Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics , 3(1-2), 1-182.
Nisbett, R. E., & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know: verbal reports on mental processes . Psychological Review , 84, 231–259.
Olson, Mancur (1971). The logic of collective action: public goods and the theory of groups . Boston: Harvard University Press.
Pennington, Mark (2011). Robust political economy: classical liberalism and the future of public policy . Cheltenham, UK. Edward Elgar.
Pipes, Sally (2008). The top ten myths of American health care: A citizen’s guide. Pacific Research Institute.
Radford, R. A. (1945). The economic organisation of a P.O.W. Economica , 12, 189–201.
Rubin, Paul H. (2014). Emporiophobia (Fear of Markets): Cooperation or Competition? Southern Economic Journal , 80, 875-889.
Rubin, Paul H. (2005). Folk economics . Southern Economic Journal , 70, 151-171.
Schneider, Carl E. (2015). The censor’s hand: The misregulation of human-subject research . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Schrag, Zachary M. (2014). You can’t ask that . Washington Monthly , September/October.
Schrag, Zachary M. (2010). Ethical imperialism: Institutional review boards and the social sciences, 1965-2009 . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Sowell, Thomas (2015). Wealth, poverty and politics: an international perspective . New York: Basic Books.
Stigler, G. J. The theory of economic regulation . The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science , 2(1), 3-21.
Veenhoven, Ruut (2000a). “Freedom and happiness ”, in Diener, E. and Sugh, E.M. (ed.s), Culture and subjective wellbeing . MIT Press, 257–288.
Veenhoven, Ruut (2000b). Wellbeing in the welfare state: level not higher, distribution not more equitable . Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis , 2, 91-125.
Winston, Clifford (2008). The efficacy of information policy: A review of Archeron Fung, Mary Graham, and David Weil’s full disclosure: the perils and promise of transparency . Journal of Economic Literature , 46, 704–717.
Winston, Clifford (2006). Government failure versus market failure: Microeconomics policy research and government performance . AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies.
Winston, Clifford (1993). Economic deregulation: days of reckoning for microeconomists . Journal of Economic Literature , 31, 1263-1289.
Woods, Thomas E. (2009). Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse . Washington, D.C.: Regnery.
Selected Films on Regulation (Links)