Suggested Readings

The Rule of Lawyers
By Walter K. Olson
ISBN: 0-312-28085-8

"[The Rule of Lawyers] is subtitled How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law. Olson skillfully shows how courts are overwhelmed by mass actions 'in which lawyers bring thousands, even tens of thousands of claims from all parts of the country alleging injury from a product design or a business practice.' Billions of dollars have been transferred to a small number of lawyers who used a fraction of their fees to help elect local judges favorable to their exploitive practices. Olson underscores the extraordinary power of state attorneys general in letting law firms identify an industry they want to sue and then find the necessary clients." —Robert Lenzner, Forbes.com

Property Matters: How Property Rights Are Under Assault-And Why You Should Care
By James V. DeLong
ISBN: 0-684-87437-7

"Assertively, but not dogmatically, James DeLong takes his readers through the regulatory minefields that stand in the way of owners of private property. With a keen eye toward institutional detail, he explores the philosophical, economic, and constitutional justifications for private property. Ranging from endangered species to intellectual property, he tries to draw sensible lines between private choice and public regulation." —Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago

Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice
By Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon, and Gordon L. Brady
ISBN: 1-930865-20-1

"The scope of government control and activity has burgeoned far beyond the conception of the founders of the American republic. Scholars and pundits either applaud this expansion or shrug their shoulders as if it were unavoidable. But the transformation is neither laudable nor inevitable. In this book, Tullock and his coauthors Arthur Seldon and Gordon Brady analyze the problems of control of government and control by government. They argue convincingly that what appear to be disparate and unrelated problems in the U.S. and Great Britain are in fact the bitter fruit of the same poisoned tree." —Michael C. Munger, chairman, department of political science, Duke University

Just Get Out of the Way: How Government Can Help Business in Poor Countries
By Robert E. Anderson
ISBN: 1-930865-54-6

"Robert Anderson clearly shows that development is accomplished only through economic growth and that growth depends on functioning market institutions. His recognition of corruption, bureaucratic inertia, lack of technical expertise, and government's role in the market pinpoints the key obstacles to private sector development. This book will be welcomed by those struggling to level the policy playing field and give the private sector a voice." —-John D. Sullivan, executive director, Center for International Private Enterprise