Discuss free-market ideas at the Show-Me Institute book club.

Bring a friend and join us for stimulating conversation and free snacks!

The Show-Me Institute sponsors book clubs in both Saint Louis and Columbia, for those who are interested in exploring a broad spectrum of the ideas of liberty. The Institute and its scholars do not necessarily agree with or advocate the ideas contained in the books selected for use in the club; rather, the institute hopes to encourage critical analysis, debate, and discussion of a wide range of thought about freedom and free-market economic perspectives.

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Show-Me Institute Book Club — Saint Louis

The Saint Louis club meets the THIRD Wednesday of every month.

We have read and discussed the following books:

2012:

• Jeffrey Milyo, Campaign Finance Red Tape: Strangling Free Speech & Political Debate
  
• Jeffrey Milyo, Keep Out: How State Campaign Finance Laws Erect Barriers to Entry for Political Entrepreneurs
• Various authors of short essays, edited by Tom G. Palmer, The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won't Tell You
  
• Lawrence W. Reed, Great Myths of the Great Depression
  
• Ludwig Von Mises, The Free Market and its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation

2011:

• Frederic Bastiat,The Law
  
• Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, The Federalist Papers
  
• James Tooley, The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themselves
  
• Mark Skousen, The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
  
• Timothy Sandefur, The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
  
• Jim Peron, ed., The Liberal Tide: From Tyranny to Liberty
  
• Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
  
• Marc Guttman, ed., Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace and Freedom
  

2010:

• F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
  
• Johan Norberg, Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation with Home Ownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis
  
• Arnold Kling, Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy
  
• Thomas E. Woods Jr., Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse
  
• Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
  
• Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon, and Gordon L. Brady, Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice
  
• David Friedman, Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
  
• Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource 2
  
• Robert Nisbet, Twilight of Authority
  
• Randal O'Toole, The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future
  
• Peter McWilliams, Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Society
  
• Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
  
• Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
  

Show-Me Institute Book Club — Columbia

Columbia Book Club, held the FIRST Wednesday of every month.

Some books we have read and discussed

2012:

• Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
• Ken Hoagland, The Fair Tax Solution:Financial Justice for All Americans
  
• Herbert J Walberg, School Choice Findings
  
• Jeffrey Milyo, Campaign Finance Red Tape: Strangling Free Speech & Political Debate
  
• Jeffrey Milyo, Keep Out: How State Campaign Finance Laws Erect Barriers to Entry for Political Entrepreneurs
  
• Daniel Hannan, The New Road to Serfdom
  

2011:

• Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
• Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy
  
• Murray N Rothbard, What Has Government Done to Our Money?
  
• Norman Stephan Kinsella, Against Intellectual Property
  
• Tyler Cowen, The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will(Eventually) Feel Better
  
• Lysander Spooner, The Lysander Spooner Reader
  
• Charles Adams, For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
  
• Ayn Rand, Anthem
  
• Thomas E Woods Jr., Nullification, How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century
  
• Tim Sandefur's, Right to Earn a Living