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Subject: Sociology: 13 records

• Inclined To Liberty: The Futile Attempt to Suppress the Human Spirit

  Louis E. Carabini

  Updated 11/30/2011

  "No one should be allowed to own a yacht." "The salaries of company executives are too high" "No one should be allowed to inherit wealth." We are surrounded every day by anti-capitalist clichés. We encoun...
• What Social Classes Owe Each Other

  William Graham Sumner

  Updated 9/23/2011

  William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a sociologist at Yale University, a historian of American banking, and great expositor of classical liberalism. Yes, this is the man often dismissed today as an outmoded "social Darwinist&q...
• 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...
• Snoring as a Fine Art, and Twelve Other Essays

  Albert Jay Nock

  Updated 6/2/2011

  Here is that passage that explains why Albert Jay Nock called his book Snoring as a Fine Art: Snoring should be regarded as a fine art and respected accordingly. If this be admitted, I might suggest further that our civilization does not so re...
• The Theory of Education in the United States: The Page-Barbour Lectures for 1931 at the University of Virginia

  Albert Jay Nock

  Updated 5/30/2011

  It is hard to say what is most notable about this book published first in 1931: 1. Albert Jay Nock's incredible disquisition on the real meaning of education and its role in a free society. 2. That these lectures were given at a universi...
• Defending the Undefendable

  Walter Block

  Updated 3/30/2011

  Professor Block's book is in a new edition from the Mises Institute, completely reset and beautifully laid out in an edition worthy of its contents. It is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial e...
• 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...
• Boundaries of Order: Private Property as a Social System

  Butler Shaffer

  Updated 6/25/2010

  Private Property as a Social System Every once in a while, a treatise on libertarian philosophy appears that presages a new way of thinking about politics and economics. Mises's Liberalism, Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty, and Hoppe's Dem...
• The Rise and Fall of Society

  Frank Chodorov

  Updated 5/15/2010

  Frank Chodorov adored the work of Albert Jay Nock, particularly Nock's writings on the State. And so Chodorov set out to do something implausible: to rework the Nock book in his own style. Rothbard wrote of this book: "Frank's...
• Give Me Liberty

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Updated 9/14/2007

  Rose Wilder Lane Give Me Liberty...
• Society Without Coercion

  Jarret B. Wollstein

  Updated 7/10/2007

  Jarret B. Wollstein Society Without Coercion...
• People's Pottage

  Garet Garrett

  Updated 1/15/2007

  Garet Garrett The People's Pottage...