Cato Institute Books

Bad Medicine: A Guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health Care Law   (2010)

For better or worse, President Obama's health care reform bill is now law and its length and complexity has led to massive confusion about its likely impact. This incisive report provides an authoritative and deeply revealing explanation of the bill's provisions. Its diagnosis is that the bill is bad medicine. It is likely to make Americans less healthy, less able to direct their own health care decisions, and places huge burdens on our economy and national debt.

By Michael D. Tanner

Price: $10.00
Reports

The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themselves (Hardback)   (2009)

An inspiring journey into the lives of families and teachers in the poorest communities of India, Africa, and China who have successfully created their own private schools in response to failed public education.

By James Tooley

Price: $19.95
Hardcover (also available in E-Book)

The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future (Hardback)   (2007)

Reveals how government attempts to do long-range, comprehensive planning inevitably do more harm than good by choking American cities with congestion, making housing markets more unaffordable, and sending the cost of government infrastructure skyrocketing.

By Randal O'Toole

Price: $22.95
Hardcover (also available in E-Book)

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know (Paperback)   (2010)

An in-depth look at consistent, solid science on the other side of the gloom-and-doom global warming story that is rarely reported and pushed aside: that global warming is likely to be modest, and there is no apocalypse on the horizon.

By Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr.

Price: $15.95
Paperback (also available in Hardcover, E-Book)

Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care (Hardback)   (2006)

America's health care troubles largely stem from a great success: modern medicine can do much more today than it could in the past. So, what's the trouble? How to pay for it.

By Arnold Kling

Price: $16.95
Hardcover (also available in Paperback, E-Book)

The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power (Paperback)   (2009)

Examines how Americans have expanded presidential power over recent decades by expecting solutions for all national problems, and concludes by calling for the president’s role to return to its properly defined constitutional limits.

By Gene Healy

Price: $15.95
Paperback (also available in Hardcover, E-Book)

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States (The Pocket Constitution) (Paperback)   (2002)

Can the government do that? Check the Constitution!

Also available in Spanish and Arabic.

Discounts available for bulk orders (see below).

With a preface by Roger Pilon

Price: $4.95
Paperback

Escaping the "Graveyard of Empires": A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan   (2009)

Over the centuries Afghanistan has endured successive waves of Persian, Greek, Arab, Turk, Mongol, British, and Soviet invaders, with no occupying power ever successfully conquering it. There's a reason why it has been described as the "graveyard of empires," and unless America scales down its objectives, it risks meeting a similar fate.

Price: $10.00
Reports

Exiting Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War against Al Qaeda (Digital Edition)   (2004)

When you order this book at its newly discounted price, we will include a free copy of Cato’s newly published report – The Case for Withdrawal: The Costs and Benefits of Leaving Iraq (March 2007). Written by Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, the paper is a concise analysis of the consequences the U.S. faces for both leaving and remaining in Iraq.

Christopher Preble, Director

Price: $3.75
E-Book (also available in Paperback)