Subject: Economics
By Joseph Baldacchino 43 pages | ISBN 978-0-932783-00-4
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This succinct but illuminating book defends the free market, while criticizing a narrowly economistic understanding of man and society. Baldacchino argues that a sound economy has ethical and cultural prerequisites that are integral to its survival. Includes an introduction by Russell Kirk.
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By Arthur Laffer 300 pages | ISBN 9781934276181
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Eureka! is a prescriptive book that provides an economic roadmap for the rehabilitation of California, a state whose health is important to the nation.
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By Commission on Thrift 68 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-15-5
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Signed by sixty-six scholars and cosponsored by eight leading think tanks, For a New Thrift describes the growing polarization in today’s financial landscape between two very different kinds of institutions.
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By Jennifer Roback Morse 306 pages | ISBN 978-0-981605-91-3
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In Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village economist Jennifer Roback Morse explains how the economy, which appears to a series of impersonal exchanges, is actually based upon love. Morse also shows how the political order—Hillary Clinton’s “village”—depends upon the prior existence of loving families.
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By 48 pages | 58 minutes run time | ISBN 978-1-880595-558 978-1-880595-565
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The Birth of Freedom examines freedom in the light of perennial observations and questions about the human condition.
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By 35 pages | 60 minutes run time | ISBN 978-1-880595-24-4 978-1-880595-50-3
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This film tells the stories of three individuals: a farmer in rural Michigan, a banker in New York, and a refugee from China. Why do their stories matter?
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By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox 116 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-17-9
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State of Our Unions 2009 seeks to answer the following questions: How is the Great Recession affecting the institution of marriage, as measured by changes in marriage and divorce rates in the United States? How do family finances—especially credit card debt and family assets—shape the quality and stability of contemporary married life in America?
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By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox 115 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-22-3
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State of Our Unions 2010: When Marriage Disappears finds that shifts in marriage mores, increases in unemployment, and declines in religious attendance have played a particularly important role in driving the retreat from marriage in middle America.
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By Benjamin Scafidi 44 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-14-8
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This study provides the first rigorous estimate of the costs to U.S. taxpayer high rates of divorce and unmarried childbearing both at the national and state levels.
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By Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Charles E. Stokes and Stephen Reeves 70 pages | ISBN 9781931764230
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In this appeal to the Texas Legislature, the Texas Thrift Coalition (a nonpartisan, volunteer group of leaders and organizations) promotes thrift and encourages saving as a path to family prosperity and financial security for Texans.
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