Cato Institute Books

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)

Cato Handbook For Policymakers, 7th Ed. (Paperback)   (2009)

Offers policy recommendations from Cato Institute experts on every major policy issue. Providing both in-depth analysis and concrete recommendations, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for policymakers and anyone else interested in securing liberty through limited government.

Edited by David Boaz

Price: $24.95
Paperback (also available in E-Book)

Cato Supreme Court Review: 2008-2009 (Paperback)   (2009)

Published every September, the Cato Supreme Court Review analyzes key cases from the Court’s most recent term.

Price: $15.00
Paperback (also available in E-Book)

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know (Hardback)   (2009)

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: $21.95
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 Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom (Paperback)   (2009)

A non-lawyer’s guide to the worst Supreme Court decisions of the modern era.

By Robert A. Levy and William Mellor

Price: $9.95
Paperback (also available in Hardcover, E-Book)

Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies   (2009)

For over seven years, drugs have been decriminalized in Portugal. This new study examines the Portuguese model and the data concerning drug-related trends in Portugal, and argues that, "judged by virtually every metric, the Portuguese decriminalization framework has been a resounding success."

Price: $10.00
Reports

Economic Freedom of the World: 2009 Annual Report   (2009)

The leading index of global economic freedom.

By James Gwartney and Robert Lawson, assisted by Joshua Hall.

Price: $29.95
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