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Taxes and Spending books
Anarchy, State, and Utopia Robert Nozick's 1974 case that only a minimal state is justified, and that patterned redistribution violates individual rights. Coolidge Amity Shlaes's 2013 biography of Calvin Coolidge, defending his economy and restraint as a model of limited government. Economics in One Lesson Henry Hazlitt's 1946 primer that teaches readers to look past the visible effects of a policy to its unseen and long-term consequences. Losing Ground Charles Murray's 1984 case that the War on Poverty's incentives left the poor worse off, which shaped the 1996 welfare reform. The Calculus of Consent James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock's 1962 founding work of public choice, applying economic reasoning to voting, legislatures and constitutional rules. The Conscience of a Conservative Barry Goldwater's 1960 manifesto, a short statement of limited government, states' rights and anticommunism that launched a movement. The Forgotten Man Amity Shlaes's 2007 revisionist history of the Depression, arguing that New Deal experiments prolonged hardship. The Law Frédéric Bastiat's 1850 pamphlet arguing that law should only protect life, liberty and property, and that legal plunder is its great corruption. Wealth and Poverty George Gilder's 1981 argument for supply-side economics and a moral defense of capitalism as an economy of giving and risk.