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The recommended readings below are designed to raise questions, many of which will be discussed in seminar lectures. While the readings are not required—lecturers will not necessarily refer to them during their talks—participants may find them helpful in stimulating thought about the issues covered at the seminar.

• James Gwartney and Richard Wagner, "The Public Choice Revolution" 
• Thomas Paine, "Common Sense"
• Leonard Read, "I, Pencil."  
• Milton and Rose Friedman, "Free to Choose" (PBS Series) or Free to Choose
• Tim Harford, "Why Poor Countries are Poor"
• Freedom in the World 
• Frederic Bastiat, "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen"
• Cato Unbound: What Can Foreign Aid Do for the Poor?
• Karol Boudreaux: The Role of Property Rights as an Institution: Implications for Development Policy
• James Madison, "Federalist no. 10"
• The Economic Freedom of the World Project
• Tom Palmer: Twenty Myths About Markets
• Barack Obama: President addresses the Ghanaian Parliament in Accra, July 2009