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• Transnational Social Policies: The New Development Challenges of Globalization, ed. by Daniel A. Morales-Gómez (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• The New Basis of Civilization (New York and London: Macmillan, 1907), by Simon N. Patten (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Free Man's Library: A Descriptive and Critical Bibliography (Princeton et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1956), by Henry Hazlitt
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Behavioral and Social Science: Fifty Years of Discovery (1986), ed. by Neil J. Smelser and Dean R. Gerstein (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Putting Federalism in its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth Dubin (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Policy Review (partial serial archives)

• A Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), by Basem Adi (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• A Third University is Possible (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by la paperson (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Dire Straits: Education Reforms, Ideology, Vested Interests, and Evidence (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), by M. Gomendio and José Ignacio Wert (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why It Doesn't Feel Like Victory (London: Ubiquity Press, 2014), by Martin Weller (multiple formats at ubiquitypress.com)

• Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), ed. by Lee Anne Fennell and Benjamin J. Keys (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)
• Housing Needs and Policy Approaches: Trends in Thirteen Countries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985), ed. by Willem Van Vliet, Elizabeth D. Huttman, and Sylvia Fleis Fava (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pro-Poor Land Reform: A Critique (c2007), by Saturnino M. Borras (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2020), ed. by Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Healthy Incentives: Canadian Health Reform in an International Context (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, c1996), ed. by William McArthur, Cynthia Ramsay, and Michael Walker (PDF at Fraser Institute)

• 101 Tools for Tolerance: Simple Ideas for Promoting Equity and Celebrating Diversity (Montgomery, Alabama: Teaching Tolerance, c2000), illust. by Rob Collinet (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society (2006), ed. by Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Reshaping Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2012), ed. by Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (multiple formats with commentary at ifpri.org and Google)

• Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship (c2008), ed. by Charles R. Hale (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes (New York: The Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, c1968), by Amitai Etzioni (PDF with commentary at gwu.edu)
• Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2010), by Susan Bulkeley Butler, contrib. by Bob Keefe (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way (c2006), by Hillary Rettig (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Max Grömping and Jessica C. Teets (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Eternal Dissident: Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act (Oakland: University of California Press, c2018), by Leonard I. Beerman, ed. by David N. Myers (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables (London: Meatspace Press, 2019), ed. by Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Christine Mattern, and Joe Shaw (multiple formats with commentary at meatspacepress.com)

• Stakeholder Welfare (c1996), by Frank Field, ed. by Alan Deacon, contrib. by Peter Alcock, David G. Green, and Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003), by Michael Albert (HTML with commentary at zcomm.org)
• The Economics of Welfare (fourth edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1932), by A. C. Pigou (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• A Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics, by Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert (HTML at zcomm.org)
• Work and Wealth: A Human Valuation, by J. A. Hobson (HTML at McMaster)
• Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (illustrated HTML at zcomm.org)
• The Political Economy of Participatory Economics, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (HTML at zcomm.org)
• The Conquest of Poverty, by Henry Hazlitt (PDF at mises.org)
• Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory, by James M. Buchanan (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at econlib.org)

• Community Without Politics: A Market Approach to Welfare Reform (c1996), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Man vs. the Welfare State (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1970), by Henry Hazlitt (PDF at mises.org)
• Reinventing Civil Society: The Rediscovery of Welfare Without Politics (c1993), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• The State, by Anthony De Jasay (HTML at econlib.org)

• Social Policy in a Global Society: Parallels and Lessons from the Canada-Latin America Experience, ed. by Daniel A. Morales-Gómez and Mario Torres Adrian (PDF with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Central American Recovery and Development Task Force Report to the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by Central American Recovery and Development Task Force, ed. by William Ascher and Ann Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Report of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development: Poverty, Conflict, and Hope, A Turning Point in Central America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives (c2009), ed. by Errol Mendes and Sakunthala Srighanthan (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• And Sin No More: Social Policy and Unwed Mothers in Cleveland, 1855-1990 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Marian J. Morton (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Hunger and Public Action (originally published 1989; reprinted Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Europe's Welfare Burden: The Case for Reform (c2002), by Benny Carlson, Alan Deacon, Hans Hoogervorst, Wilfried Prewo, and Jason A. Turner (PDF at Civitas)

• Social Policy in a Global Society: Parallels and Lessons from the Canada-Latin America Experience, ed. by Daniel A. Morales-Gómez and Mario Torres Adrian (PDF with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, c2001), by Stevan Harrell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Washington)

• Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor (2003), ed. by James J. Fox and Dionisio Babo-Soares (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• American Choices: Social Dilemmas and Public Policy Since 1960 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), ed. by Robert H. Bremner, Gary W. Reichard, and Richard J. Hopkins (PDF at Ohio State)
• The State You See: How Government Visibility Creates Political Distrust and Racial Inequality (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Aaron J. Rosenthal (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Liberalism at Work: The Rise and Fall of OSHA (originally published 1986; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), by Charles Noble, contrib. by Bryant Simon (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• America's Social Revolution (c2001), by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• What Role for Government?: Lessons from Policy Research (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983), ed. by Richard F. Zeckhauser and Derek Leebaert (page images at HathiTrust)
• For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1978), by Murray N. Rothbard (HTML and PDF at mises.org)

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