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Leonard E. Read
Leonard E. Read discusses the importance of freedom as a foundation for finding the answers to the problems induced by central planning and "master minding". He suggests: "Freedom has come by accident, the result of desperation rather than a...
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Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) is the American individualist anarchist and legal theorist known mainly for setting up a commercial post office in competition with the government and thereby being shut down. But he was also the author of some of...
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Jean-Baptiste Say
J.B. Say battled the prophet of doom in this rare series of letters that explain how economic growth occurs without destabilizing economic forces. He writes with passion and personality, anticipating so many Austrian insights. An extra treat in...
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Ludwig von Mises
The German edition of Mises's classic Liberalism. The program of liberalism... if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production... All the other demands of liberalism result...
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Jacob H. Huebert
The drive for liberty, whether from the left or right, is the underlying impulse. This book tells you where it is all headed and why. It might seem easy to write an overview of libertarianism. If so, why do so many attempts fall short? They...
Charles T. Sprading
In 1913, Charles T. Sprading (1871-1959) wrote a book of remarkable prescience that anticipated the systematic development of an American libertarian tradition. He called it Liberty and the Great Libertarians. What he provided was a biography...
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Ron Paul
Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It...
Louis E. Carabini
From the introduction: Advancing social ideas that do not demand obedience or compliance requires far more personal patience than simply forcing others to comply via the political ballot box. The widely held idea that dicta and force can serve a...
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F.A. Harper
F.A. Harper was a leader in the libertarian movement from the 1950s and onward. Here is his early manifesto (1949), in which he reveals a sophisticated understanding of free markets and freedom but had not yet, as he later did, come around...
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Leonard E. Read
Wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, "Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot." The millions of despots, now in the driver's seat, are swayed not by faith but by that type of ignorance displayed by witch doctors or medicine men and their...
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Thomas J. DiLorenzo
DiLorenzo discusses how the Lincoln cult came into being and came to dominate national politics--and how completely far from the truth they have strayed. They have buried the reality of who he was and what he did in the service of a mythical...