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Subject: Anarchy: 18 records

Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 1/12/2012
Ridiculously low price! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austria...
The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Updated 12/20/2011
This exceeding rare book is by one of the great men of the 20th century. Written soon after his immigration to the United States, he signed the book "Francis Stuart Campbell" because he was a refugee from Austria and didn't want to enda...
Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Updated 12/9/2011
Sometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the idea was always vague. In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political power a...
Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 12/5/2011
What can government do to enhance social and economic well being? Nothing, says Murray N. Rothbard. Power and Market contains the proof. It will inoculate the reader against the even the slightest temptation to invoke the state as a solution to any s...
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 11/3/2011
New Pocket Edition! In For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for using state power against people. Liber...
One Is a Crowd

Frank Chodorov
Updated 9/15/2011
This is a treasure: One Is a Crowd. It collects Frank Chodorov's most profound essays on the topic of individualism, many of which have otherwise been unjustly lost to history. The reader will be riveted by his biographical essay on the meanin...
On Doing the Right Thing

Albert Jay Nock
Updated 6/7/2011
This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his "Anarchist's Progress," "Thoughts on Revolution," "The Decline of Conversation," and other classics by this great American...
Myth of National Defense, The: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 5/13/2011
With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services. It argues that "nat...
The Future

Edward Wayne Younkins
Updated 5/11/2011
Edward Wayne Younkins Capitalism & Commerce, ch. 29: "The Future" Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise. Thanks to David Schatz....
Chaos Theory

Robert P. Murphy
Updated 3/18/2011
Among the most advanced topics in the literature in the Austro-libertarian milieu is that which deals with the workings of the fully free society, that is, the society with no state, or anarcho-capitalism. Robert Murphy deals with this head on, and m...
Out of Step

Frank Chodorov
Updated 3/11/2011
Frank Chodorov was a journalist of the Old Right with an extraordinary writing ability. He was also a top-notch intellectual figure who has been tragically neglected. This collection might be his best. Among the smashing essays here are: "Isolat...
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Albert Jay Nock
Updated 3/11/2011
Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of soci...
The Private Production of Defense

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 2/2/2011
Hans Hoppe takes on the most difficult subject in economic and political theory: the provision of security. He argues that the service is better provided by free markets than government, while addressing a hundred counter-arguments. Here we have an i...
The Market for Liberty

Morris and Linda Tannehill
Updated 5/14/2010
Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and labored discipline. But other classics are written in a white heat during the moment of discovery, with prose that shines forth like the sun pouring into the window of a time...
1. The Prostitute

Walter Block
Updated 10/18/2009
1. The Prostitute Walter Block Defending the Undefendable...
Society Without Coercion

Jarret B. Wollstein
Updated 7/10/2007
Jarret B. Wollstein Society Without Coercion...
Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections

Roderick T. Long
Updated 1/15/2007
Roderick T. Long Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections Acrobat Distiller 6.0 (Windows)...
The Book of Journeyman: Essays from the New Freeman

Albert Jay Nock
Updated 1/15/2007
Albert Jay Nock The Book of Journeyman...

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