Legal System

The Enterprise of Law: Justice without the State

Tags: Intermediate, Legal System

06/01/1990 • Bruce L. Benson

Benson argues that public dissatisfaction with legal institutions is as prevalent as public disgust with many public institutions. That’s hardly surprising. They are funded through taxes, run by bureaucracies, are famously inefficient, lack the...

Freedom Under Siege

Tags: Legal System, U.S. Economy, War and Foreign Policy

07/25/1987 • Ron Paul

Here is Ron Paul’s political manifesto, a courageous book on civil liberties and the rights of Americans that are relentlessly under assault from government. It was written in 1987, on the 200th anniversary of the Constitution, and is back in...

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A Tribute to the Statue of Ellis Island

Tags: Big Government, Legal System

03/01/1986 • Richard J. Maybury

Today as we move boldly forward into the 21st Century, we have as our most important symbol, the Statue of Ellis  Island. May we never forget its new meaning.

Money and Freedom

Tags: Intermediate, Legal System, Money and Banks

06/01/1985 • Hans F. Sennholz

Hans Sennholz was a great champion of the Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and also the Misesian view of money. He was a proponent of the gold standard, and this is his aggressive defense of Austrian theory against monetarism and supply...

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Power and Privilege: Labor Unions in America

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10/21/1984 • Morgan O. Reynolds

This book reconsiders the economic role of labor unions by challenging fundamental assumptions. Anyone who seeks a comprehensive treatment of the effects of labor unions, as well as the legal and economic reasons for those effects, would do well...

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Antitrust and Monopoly

Tags: Introductory, Legal System, U.S. History

02/01/1982 • Dominick Armentano

In this pioneering study, Professor Armentano thoroughly researches the classic cases in antitrust law and demonstrates an enormous gap between the stated aims of antitrust law and what it actually accomplishes in the real world. Instead of...

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Tags: Featured, Introductory, Legal System

07/20/1973 • Murray N. Rothbard

Book Club Discussion Guide 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...

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Ten Thousand Commandments: A Story of the Antitrust Laws

Tags: Big Government, The Entrepreneur, Legal System

04/26/1972 • Harold Fleming

From the author: This book is not for lawyers, but for people. Or, if that distinction sounds unfair to my legal friends, let’s say it’s for laymen. The lawyers may read it if they want to. I put the citations in for them. I have tried to write...

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Society Without Coercion

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07/10/1969 • Jarret B. Wollstein

Since time immemorial men have sought the ideal of a peaceful, prosperous and just society; a society in which they could be free to produce and act without the fear of force being initiated against them by their neighbors. Many sincere and...

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Freedom and the Law

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06/15/1961 • Bruno Leoni

Bruno Leoni was surely the most important Italian free market thinker of the second half of the 20th century. Here we have an outstanding analysis of the relationship between law and freedom, one that follows up on Bastiat and, many argue...

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