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• 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)

• A Plan to Revive the American Economy (version 2.0; ca. 2008), by Economic Policy Institute Agenda for Shared Prosperity (PDF with commentary at epi.org)

• Higher Production by a Bonus on National Output: A Proposal For a Minimum Income for All, Varying With National Productivity (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1920), by Dennis Milner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and To Agrarian Monopoly (Paris: Printed by W. Adlard; London: Reprinted and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, ca. 1797), by Thomas Paine (HTML at ECCO TCP)
• Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and To Agrarian Monopoly (Philadelphia: Printed by R. Folwell, for B. F. Bache, ca. 1797), by Thomas Paine
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • bound with Paine's Dissertation of First Principles of Government; page images at HathiTrust
• Agrarian Justice, by Thomas Paine (HTML at ssa.gov)

• Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2015), by Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Soumya Kapoor Mehta, and Guy Standing
  • HTML with commentary at bloomsburycollections.com
  • PDF at OAPEN

• Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), ed. by Elinor Ostrom, Roy Gardner, and James Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defensive Internationalism: Providing Public Goods in an Uncertain World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Davis B. Bobrow and Mark A. Boyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Demand and Supply of Public Goods, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)

• 21st Century Cooperation: Regional Public Goods, Global Governance, and Sustainable Development (London and New York: Routledge, c2017), ed. by Antoni Estevadeordal and Louis Wolf Goodman (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Bolstering Critical Infrastructure Resilience After Superstorm Sandy: Lessons for New York and the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2015), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold (report of CSIS Europe program, 2013), by Heather A. Conley, contrib. by David L. Pumphrey, Terence M. Toland, and Mihaela David (PDF with commentary at csis.org)

• Financing Tomorrow's Infrastructure: Challenges and Issues (1996), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure (1984), ed. by Royce Hanson (page images with commentary at NAP)

• State of the Apes: Infrastructure Development and Ape Conservation (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Helga Rainer, Alison White, and Annette Lanjouw (HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• The Infrastructure Finance Challenge: A Report by the Working Group on Infrastructure Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), ed. by Ingo Walter (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Rebuilding the Foundations: A Special Report on State and Local Public Works Financing and Management (OTA-SET-447; 1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at unt.edu

• Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance (1996), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2017), by Nikhil Anand (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Infrastructure Investment in Indonesia: A Focus on Ports (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), ed. by C. F. Duffield, Felix Kin Peng Hui, and Sally Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Boston Under Snow: Resilience Lessons for the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2017), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things: The Politics of Infrastructure Security (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Ryan Ellis (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Repairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality and Power (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Christopher Henke and B. Sims (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
• Infrastructure for the 21st Century: Framework for a Research Agenda, by National Research Council Committee on Infrastructure Innovation (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance (1996), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Customs Union Question (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co., ca. 1896), by W. Peart-Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sustaining the Commons (Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, c2013), by John M. Anderies and Marco Janssen (multiple formats with commentary at asu.edu)
• Social Choice and Individual Values (Cowles Foundation monograph #12, second edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1963), by Kenneth J. Arrow (PDF at Yale)
• Social Choice and Individual Values (Cowles Foundation monograph #12, first edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1951), by Kenneth J. Arrow (PDF at Yale)
• Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory (originally published 1987; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Maurice Mandelbaum (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)
• The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, by James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentayr at econlib.org)
• Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory, by James M. Buchanan (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at econlib.org)

• Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2012), by David K. Levine
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google

• 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)

• 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)
• Becoming Europe: Immigration, Integration, and The Welfare State (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), by Patrick R. Ireland (page images at Pitt)

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