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Subject: Political-Philosophy: 182 records

Planned Chaos

Ludwig von Mises Updated 9/29/2014

This new edition (completely reset) of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date - not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will. The title com...
Our Enemy, The State

Albert Jay Nock Updated 11/26/2013

What does one need to know about politics? In some ways, Nock has summed it all up in this astonishing book, the influence of which has grown every year since its publication. The Mises Institute has long hoped for an opportunity to produce a...
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/4/2012

Latest edition includes an introduction by Lew Rockwell. 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 us...
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Etienne de la Boetie Updated 7/19/2012

States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant—when consent is withdrawn. This is the thesis of this thrilling book. Murray Rothbard writes a classic introduction to one of the great political essays in the history...
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Albert Jay Nock Updated 7/19/2012

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 Philosophy of Ownership

Robert LeFevre Updated 1/13/2012

The significance of property ownership has rarely been fully appreciated, writes Robert LeFevre. He proceeds to present the entire libertarian case for private ownership, with his characteristic clarity of exposition. He makes what is a radically ha...
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...
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 encounte...
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...
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...
The Production of Security

Gustave de Molinari Updated 6/27/2011

The introduction to this stunning work is by Murray Rothbard, who calls French radical Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) the great innovator in the market provision of security. Indeed, he might be regarded as the first proponent of what is called anar...
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 s...
The Decline of the American Republic

John T. Flynn Updated 5/26/2011

In 1955, John T. Flynn saw what few others journalist did: the welfare-warfare state conspired to bring down American liberty. The New Deal combined with World War Two had fastened leviathan control over a country born in liberty. This early analysi...
The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton

Ralph Raico Updated 5/24/2011

The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton Forty years ago, historian Ralph Raico completed his dissertation under the direction of F.A. Hayek at the University of Chicago. Its title masks its power a...
Myth of National Defense, The: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 5/13/2011

The libertarian idea of society without a state appeals to many people, but, however enticing the idea, it is often dismissed as utopian. How could an anarchist society defend itself against large, centralized states? Defense, it has been alleged,...
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....
Against the Tide

Wilhelm Röpke Updated 5/6/2011

Wilhelm Roepke was schooled in the tradition of the Austrians and made enormous contributions to the study of political institutions. Here we have collected some of his most powerful anti-Keynesian writings, which, in particular, underscore what...
The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 5/5/2011

Finally, here is an edition of Road to Serfdom that does justice to its monumental status in the history of liberty. It contains a foreword by the editor of the Hayek Collected Works, Bruce Caldwell. Caldwell has added helpful explanatory notes and c...
Century of War, A

John V. Denson Updated 3/31/2011

The horrors of the twentieth century could hardly have been predicted in the nineteenth century, which saw the eighteenth century end with the American Revolution bringing about the creation of the first classical liberal government in history. The t...
The Trouble With Washington

Mises.org Updated 3/14/2011

Video version of Ron Paul's speech, "The Trouble With Washington", at the Prosperity, War & Depression seminar....
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...
Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy, The

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 8/11/2010

Austrian economics puts private property at the center of its analysis of value, price, and exchange. Respect for private property is also implied by the fundamental moral principle, "Do not steal." Hans-Hermann Hoppe...
Nation, State, and Economy

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/28/2010

This was Mises's second book. It was written following his military service in World War I. It is also his first book that dealt with political themes--and began Mises's full-scale launch into the fight against collectivism that would be a th...
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/25/2010

Ludwig von Mises’s Socialism is the most important critical examination of socialism ever written. Socialism is most famous for Mises’s penetrating economic calculation argument. The book contains much more however. Mises not only shows the imposs...
The Discovery of Freedom

Rose Wilder Lane Updated 5/14/2010

With new forewords by Roger Lea MacBride and Hans F. Sennholz What an American original was Rose Wilder Lane! What a treasure! She lived from 1886 until 1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent collaborator on t...
1. The Prostitute

Walter Block Updated 10/18/2009

1. The Prostitute Walter Block Defending the Undefendable...
The State, The Enemy

Sir Ernest Benn Updated 6/5/2009

Ernest Benn The State, The Enemy...
Give Me Liberty

Rose Wilder Lane Updated 9/14/2007

Rose Wilder Lane Give Me Liberty...
"Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Political Freedom and its Roots in Metaphysics"

Moshe Kroy Updated 1/15/2007

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"Social Analysis of Three Early 19th Century French Liberals: Say, Comte, and Dunoyer"

Weinburg Mark Updated 1/15/2007

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"Libertarianism and Libertinism"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Hayek's Road to Serfdom"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"How Philosophical Errors Impede Freedom"

Michael Levin Updated 1/15/2007

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"Constitutional Economics and The Calculus of Consent"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"All Goverment is Excessive: A Rejoinder to Dwight Lee's "In Defense of Excessive Government""

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Modeling Hypothetical Consent"

Mikko Wennberg Updated 1/15/2007

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"Life, Liberty, and . . . : Jefferson on Property Rights"

Luigi Marco Bassani Updated 1/15/2007

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"Reply to "Against Libertarian Legalism" by Frank van Dun"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

Frank van Dun Reply to "Against Libertarian Legalism" Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Libertarian Legalism...
"Reply to Frank van Dun's "Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom""

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Kant and Property Rights"

Marcus Verhaegh Updated 1/15/2007

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"Comments on Colin Williams's Arguments Against Spooner"

Jan Narveson Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review of <em>The Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881–1908</em>, by Wendy McElroy"

Robert Bass Updated 1/15/2007

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"Carson's Rejoinders"

Kevin A. Carson Updated 1/15/2007

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Contra Spooner

Colin Williams Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review of <em>Ayn Rand</em> by Tibor Machan"

Robert Bass Updated 1/15/2007

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People's Pottage

Garet Garrett Updated 1/15/2007

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The Book of Journeyman: Essays from the New Freeman

Albert Jay Nock Updated 1/15/2007

Albert Jay Nock The Book of Journeyman...