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These papers, written by Independent Institute Research Fellows, were originally published in other publications, and are republished here. For other research, please see our Policy Briefings, Working Papers, and The Independent Review.

Keeping It Simple
The Value of an Irreducibly Simple Climate Model
Christopher Monckton, William M. Briggs  ·  August 6, 2015
The Economic Case for Lifting the Crude Oil Exports Ban
Margo Thorning, William F. Shughart II  ·  June 3, 2015
Fix What Broke: Building an Orderly and Ethical International Monetary System
Judy L. Shelton  ·  March 21, 2015
Why Models Run Hot
Results from an Irreducibly Simple Climate Model
Christopher Monckton, William M. Briggs, David R. Legates  ·  January 8, 2015
Common Core’s Validation
A Weak Foundation for a Crooked House
Ze’ev Wurman  ·  April 1, 2014
The Secular Religions of Progress
Robert H. Nelson  ·  October 14, 2013
The Promise and Sensibility of Integrative Dualism
Charles Taliaferro  ·  August 30, 2013
Climate Consensus and “Misinformation”
A Rejoinder to Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change
Christopher Monckton, William M. Briggs, David R. Legates  ·  August 30, 2013
The Economics Behind the U.S. Government’s Unwinnable War on Drugs
Benjamin Powell  ·  August 21, 2013
Mere Friendship
C.S. Lewis on a Great Joy
David J. Theroux  ·  June 19, 2013
Why Can’t We Be Like France?
How the Right to Bear Arms Got Left Out of the Declaration of Rights and How Gun Registration Was Decreed Just in Time for the Nazi Occupation
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  April 22, 2013
The Healthcare Contract with America
John C. Goodman, Peter J. Ferrara, J.D.  ·  July 7, 2012
Gold and Government
Judy L. Shelton  ·  March 21, 2012
Secular Theocracy
The Foundations and Folly of Modern Tyranny
David J. Theroux  ·  January 11, 2012
No Right to “Bear Arms”? A Critical Analysis of United States v. Masciandaro
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  December 16, 2011
Rethinking Church and State
The Case of Environmental Religion
Robert H. Nelson  ·  October 1, 2011
Lack of Consistency Between Modeled and Observed Temperature Trends
S. Fred Singer  ·  June 1, 2011
Foreword to The Civilian and the Military, by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
A History of the American Antimilitarist Tradition
Ralph Raico  ·  April 4, 2011
The Economics of the Great Society
Theory, Policies, and Consequences
Robert Higgs  ·  February 1, 2011
Aim at the Zero Deficit Line
Craig Eyermann  ·  January 13, 2011
The IMF and Its Barbarous Relic
Judy L. Shelton  ·  September 22, 2010
C. S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
David J. Theroux  ·  August 23, 2010
National Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade
Kathleen Madigan, Sandra Stotsky, Ze’ev Wurman  ·  July 1, 2010
Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen?
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  May 1, 2010
Cumulating Policy Consequences, Frightened Overreactions, and the Current Surge of Government’s Size, Scope, and Power
Robert Higgs  ·  April 1, 2010


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