Re: Looking For Something New To Read

bulingit43 — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:31:51 GMT

Hi! I'm new here and luckily got across this forum. I think this is one of my lucky day. I'll take your advice and try to check on the list myself. Thank you.

Re: Looking For Something New To Read

Neodoxy — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:08:27 GMT

Jeremiah Dyke:

I’ve been absent from the forums for some time. I’ve actually been absent from nearly everything for the past three months aside from teaching and landscaping. I have so many great intellectual tombs on my shelves that need to be read but I haven’t the stamina to open them. I want something refreshing/pop/lucid and libertarian. Any suggestions? ‘Libertarianism Today’ was good anything else that’s relatively new?

Okay now I don't know what your library consists of so I'm going to suggest some stuff. Not all of it

1. For a New Liberty

http://mises.org/store/For-a-New-Liberty-The-Libertarian-Manifesto-P301.aspx

Every libertarian should own this book, well written sums up libertarian argument, reasonable, invigorating well backed up.

2. The Making of Modern Economics

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Modern-Economics-Lives-Thinkers/dp/0765622270/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312779908&sr=8-1

This is written by Mark Skousen who is a libertarian and it has an obvious biased towards economic freedom. It's well written, thorough, and interesting, although admittedly a little more vague than Rothbard's work, however it of course covers significantly more of economic history and it focuses more upon the lives of the economists than Rothbard did.

3. Capitalism, Soicalism, and Democracy

http://www.amazon.com/Historians-Fallacies-Toward-Historical-Thought/dp/0061315451

Written by one of the most underrated Austrian economists around here, it's a great assessment, a praxeological(ish) examination of democracy which hasn't been approached in quality until Hoppe and a great look at the changing economy and the entrepreneur. NOT easy reading

4. Historian's Fallacies

http://www.amazon.com/Historians-Fallacies-Toward-Historical-Thought/dp/0061315451

This is NOT a libertarian book. It is one of the most important books on history that you will ever read, it not only helps to inspire a very tentative and logical understanding of history but it also helps to affirm the Austrian position of the limitations of empirical evidence and will really make you question every work on history or any historical evidence you EVER find.

5. The Case for Legalizing Capitalism

http://www.amazon.com/Case-Legalizing-Capitalism-Kel-Kelly/dp/1933550627/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Really good book on specific examples of how capitalism is shackled by government, I've read excerpts and it's excellent, I really want to pick it up.

6. Anarchy and the Law

http://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-Law-Political-Economy-Independent/dp/1412805791/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Probably the best book ever written about the anarchist theory of law and order, a thick tomb but I'd definitely recommend it.

7. The Constitution of Liberty

http://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-Law-Political-Economy-Independent/dp/1412805791/ref=pd_sim_b_1

The best and final book ever written on classical liberalism

8. Theory and History

http://mises.org/store/Theory-and-History-Hardcover-P428.aspx

A lesser known work of Mises, a really great work on historical method and a refutation of a lot of fallacious ideas, kind of disorganized and difficult to appreciate without an understanding of the ideas themselves but still quite good.

Other books that might be good are the myth of the robber barons and how capitalism saved America; I haven't read anything about either of these books or read excerpts so I can't recommend them.

Re: Looking For Something New To Read

John James — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:10:01 GMT

You might find something here you'll like...

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Re: Looking For Something New To Read

Jeremiah Dyke — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:32:59 GMT

non fiction. I got a steady supply of comic books and graphic novels that I've been indulging in.

Re: Looking For Something New To Read

My Buddy — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:29:54 GMT

Non fiction or fiction?

Looking For Something New To Read

Jeremiah Dyke — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:16:01 GMT

I’ve been absent from the forums for some time. I’ve actually been absent from nearly everything for the past three months aside from teaching and landscaping. I have so many great intellectual tombs on my shelves that need to be read but I haven’t the stamina to open them. I want something refreshing/pop/lucid and libertarian. Any suggestions? ‘Libertarianism Today’ was good anything else that’s relatively new?

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