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CHAPTER 1 – A BRIEF HISTORY OF LEFT AND RIGHT
1 Wikipedia: Left-right political spectrum
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_spectrum)
CHAPTER 3 – THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
2 Ayn Rand: The Nature of Government
CHAPTER 4 – STATISM: COLLECTIVIST SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Section 4.1: Totalitarianism: Extreme Collectivism/Statism
3 Wikipedia: Racism in The Soviet Union
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Soviet_Union)
4 Rudolf Rummel: 20th Century Democide
(hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM)
Section 4.3: Welfare Statism: Collectivism/Statism “Light”
5 Wikipedia: Conservatism
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism)
6 Wikipedia: Democratic socialism
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism)
CHAPTER 5: CAPITALISM
Section 5.6: Capitalism Unleashes the Unimagined
7 U.S. Vehicle Technology Office: Fact # 617, U.S. Vehicles per Thousand People, 1900-2008
(energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-617-april-5-2010-changes-vehicles-capita-around-world)
Section 5.10: Capitalism Results in High-Quality, Affordable K–12 Education
8 Robert A. Peterson: Education in Colonial America
(fee.org/articles/education-in-colonial-america/)
9 Lawrence W. Reed: The Myth that Americans Were Poorly Educated before Mass Government Schooling
(fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-americans-were-poorly-educated-before-mass-government-schooling/)
Section 5.13: Capitalism Eliminates Inflation
10 John Greenwood/Steve H. Hanke: The Monetary Bathtub is Overflowing
11 HardmoneyJim: Pandemic QE and its aftermath
(jim3c5.substack.com/p/no-12-pandemic-qe-and-its-aftermath?s=r)
12 See “Rand, Ayn. The Virtue of Selfishness (p. 125). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition” for a more detailed discussion of government financing in a free society.
Section 5.15: Capitalism Reduces the Impact of Natural Disasters, Including Pandemics
13 Onkar Ghate: A Pro Freedom Approach To Infectious Disease
(newideal.aynrand.org/pandemic-response/)
Section 5.17: Science Thrives Under Capitalism but Struggles Under Statism
14 National Bureau of Economic Research: The Effect of Public Science on Corporate R&D
15 Alex Epstein: Fossil Future, Chapter 1: Ignoring Benefits
16 Nourishyourlife.org: The History of the Low-Fat Diet – (nourishyourlife.org/the-history-of-the-low-fat-diet)
17 Cato Institute: Why Does the Federal Government Issue Damaging Dietary Guidelines? Lessons from Thomas Jefferson to Today (cato.org/policy-analysis/why-does-federal-government-issue-damaging-dietary-guidelines-lessons-thomas)
18 Breakthrough Journal: The Social Feedback Loop That Constrains the Narrative (open.substack.com/pub/thebreakthroughjournal/p/does-high-profile-climate-science?r=6yn7y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
19 List of Department of Defense agencies (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Department_of_Defense_agencies)
20 Pew Research Center: Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline (pewresearch.org/science/2023/11/14/americans-trust-in-scientists-positive-views-of-science-continue-to-decline/)
Section 5.20: Capitalism Is the Real Deal for the Environment
21 Andrew McAfee: More from Less: The surprising story of how we learned to prosper using fewer resources – and what happens next
(amazon.com/dp/B07MJ7N61S/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)
22 U.S. Energy Information Administration: Table 8.1 Nuclear Energy Overview
(eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec8_3.pdf)
23 Statista: Share of nuclear power in total domestic electricity generation in 2020, by select country
(statista.com/statistics/270367/share-of-nuclear-power-in-the-power-supply-of-selected-countries/)
24 Wikipedia: Prejudice
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice)
CHAPTER 6 – LAYING THE GROUNDWORK
25 Wikipedia: Same-sex marriage in the United States
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States)
26 Wikipedia: Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States)
27 World Bank: GDP per capita growth (annual %) – United States
(data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locations=US)
Section 6.3: Government Spending and Inflation: Monetary Transition Foes
28 USGovernmentSpending.com: Federal Debt
(usgovernmentspending.com/debt_deficit_history)
29 USGovernmentSpending.com: State and Local Debt
(usgovernmentspending.com/compare_state_spending_H0p)
30 Truth in Accounting
31 St. Louis Fed
(fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FDHBFRBN)
32 U.S. Government Accountability Office (gao.gov/products/gao-23-106647)
CHAPTER 7 – FROM HERE TO THERE: HEALTH INSURANCE AND HEALTH CARE
33 Wikipedia: Medicaid
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid)
CHAPTER 8 – FROM HERE TO THERE: RETIREMENT
34 Wikipedia: History of Social Security in the United States
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Social_Security_in_the_United_States)
CHAPTER 9 – FROM HERE TO THERE: EDUCATION
35 Downsizing the Federal Government: Department of Education
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