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The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
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Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
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Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
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James Bovard on the Peace Corps
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Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
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The "Amazon" Tax
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Capitalism and Freedom by Friedman, chapter on occupational licensing. Also, the chapter on health care in Larry Elder's book The Ten Things You Can't Say In America, which provides a historical, health-care-centered context for Friedman's argument. But it's not an economics book, it's a political one (from a libertarian standpoint).
I would recommend Arnold Kling's book: Crisis of Abundance.
The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr is extremely valuable as historical context.
In addition to Arnold's Crisis of Abundance and David R. Henderson's chapter in The Joy of Freedom, I like the following for addressing a broad range of issues, being well-documented, and quite readable:
The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care, by David Gratzer
Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It (2nd Ed.), Michael Cannon and Michael Tanner (Cato).
Excellent. Thanks for the response!
OK, I'm game. So how do those European health care delivery systems do it? I've looked at the ratings and, frankly, we do poorly. And we spend more money as well.
Why can't we duplicate what they do?