A Report on the Online Library of Liberty Project for Calendar Year 2011
Dr. David M. Hart
Director of the Online Library of Liberty Project

Summary: The Status of the OLL in 2011

Report [PDF].

Overview of the OLL Website

• the OLL is made up of two major components, the "Forum" and the "Library"
• "The Library" contains the following:
  • 1,320 volumes in a variety of electronic formats
    • facsimile PDF of the original text
    • XML (a very detailed coded version of the title)
    • HTML (a less detailed coded version which is suitable for online viewing)
    • a text-based PDF created from the XML
    • an ePub version
    • a Kindle version
  • information (metadata) about each title, author, and contributor
  • a powerful search engine which can be used to find key words and phrases in the texts and displays them in the full paragraph of the text in which they are located
• "The Forum" contains the following:
  • 892 study guides, essays, bibliographies, biographies, timelines, and other material which can be used to better understand the texts
  • 124 Reading Lists on specific topics
  • 331 Quotations about Liberty and Power drawn from the OLL collection
  • 61 Images about Liberty and Power
• the OLL went public in March 2004 and a revised and upgraded version was introduced in July 2007
• the OLL is distributed to the public in two formats, online via the OLL website and in a smaller version via DVD (the "Portable Library of Liberty")
• over the past 5 years (2007-2011) the OLL has had 22.7 million "visits" at an annual average of 4.5m.

New Content and Features:

• 31 new titles added in 2011 [total 1,320 of which 1,061 in HTML]
• 26 new study guides and essays added to Forum
• 49 new Quotations about Liberty and Power [total now 331]
• 18 new Images about Liberty and Power [total now 61] - Paired Images and Quotations 20
• Most titles now available in ePub and Kindle versions (except for texts only in PDF and LF published books)
• 6th edition of the Portable Library of Liberty DVD appeared in September 2011 with PDF, ePub and Kindle versions of the books. 22,000 copies of previous versions of PLL DVD have been given away.
• Frontpage of OLL redesigned in order to look better on handheld devices. Major Collections of materials given prominence of new frontpage - especially Founders of the American Constitution.

Server Stats on Usage and Visits:

• 3.76m visits in 2011 (av. 314,000/month) [Total since March 2004 is 27 million].
• Most downloaded PDF books (snapshot of 1st semester Sept-Dec. 2011): The Parallel Bible; John Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man; Machiavelli, Works
• Most visited HTML pages: Frohnen, The American Nation; Macaulay, Historical Essays; Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention
• Most downloaded MP3 files (IPS): Becker, Kirzner, Barzun
• Most downloaded MP3 files (audio books): Bastiat, Economic Harmonies; Bastiat, The Law, J.S.Mill, On Liberty
• Most viewed images of Liberty and Power: Mises and Rationing in WW2; Washington and Presidents Day; Wade and Daumier on Ruling Class
• Most viewed Quotations about Liberty and Power: Cobden, "I have a Dream" speech; Adam Smith on Trade Wars; Mises on Price Controls

Other Activities:

• Talks and Lectures:
  • on Bastiat (14)
  • on the OLL and LF (4)
• Design for a new and updated website

Future Plans for 2012:

• Continue building new and updated website
• Plan to develop interactive iPad version of "Quotations about Liberty and Power" and Bastiat, Collected Works
• complete 7 volume collection of Leveller Tracts (editing large no. of illegibles)
• begin work on digitising the following collections:
  • selection of material from 1st 10 years of The Economist magazine
  • works by London Corresponding Society
  • the Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the 17th Century
  • Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals, 1770-1914
  • more works by Founders of the US Constitution: Benjamin Franklin

New Titles added

During 2011 we added fewer new titles than we have in previous years as a result of cutbacks to our funding. The impact of the cuts have taken a while to be felt as we had a considerable backlog of material to work through. That process is nearly at an end. In 2011 we added 31 new titles to the Library and 26 other guides and essays to the Forum. At the end of 2011 there were 1,320 titles in the OLL of which 1,061 were in HTML format (the rest are in PDF only).

We also completed a project to put online the collected works of several of the Founders of the US Constitution in a late 19th century edition (The Federal Edition). This collection now includes the works of the following individuals:

1. George Washington (14 vols)
2. John Adams (10 vols.)
3. Thomas Paine (4 vols.)
4. James Wilson (2 vols.)
5. Thomas Jefferson (12 vols.)
6. John Jay (4 vols.)
7. James Madison (9 vols.)
8. Alexander Hamilton (12 vols.).

This collection has been given prominence of the front page of the OLL website, along with links to our collection of "Key Documents of Liberty," LF's edition of The Federalist Papers, and The Founders' Constitution. This comprises a total of 72 volumes plus 100 separate Key Documents of Liberty.

New Books addd in 2011

1. Charles Wilkins, Bhagvat-Geeta (1785)
2. The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (1900)
3. Locke, Letter concerning Toleration & Other Writings (2010)
4. Gentz, The Origins & Principles of the American Revolution (1800)
5. Trenchard and Gordon, The Independent Whig, vol. 1
6. Trenchard and Gordon, The Independent Whig, vol. 2
7. Mises, Interventionism: An Economic Analysis (1940, 2011)
8. The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 1: The Man and the Statesman (201)
9. Mises, Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow (1979, 2010)
10. William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man and Other Essays (corrected edition) (1876)
11. Mises, Omnipotent Government (1944)
12. version 6.0 of all EBook PDFs (1,047) generated for new edition of the Portable Library of Liberty disk
13. 850 OLL titles in ePub format
14. 790 OLL titles in Kindle/Mobi format
15. Mises, On the Manipulation of Money and Credit: Three Treatises on Trade-Cycle Theory (1978)
16. Political Writings of William Leggett (1840), vol. 1
17. Political Writings of William Leggett (1840), vol. 2
18. Washington, Writings, vol. 1 (1748-1757)
19. Washington, Writings, vol. 2 (1758-1775)
20. Washington, Writings, vol. 3 (1775-1776)
21. Washington, Writings, vol. 4 (1776)
22. Washington, Writings, vol. 5 (1776-77)
23. Washington, Writings, vol. 6 (1777-78)
24. Washington, Writings, vol. 7 (1778-79)
25. Washington, Writings vol. 8 (1779-1780)
26. Washington, Writings vol. 9 (1780-1782
27. Washington, Writings vol. 10 (1782-1785
28. Washington, Writings vol. 11 (1785-1790)
29. Washington, Writings vol. 12 (1790-1794)
30. Washington, Writings vol. 13 (1794-1798)
31. Washington, Writings vol. 14 (1798-1799)

Other Material

1. Bibliography: Locke & Religious Toleration
2. Compilation of Quotes of the Week (2004-2009)
3. Chronology of Locke's Life
4. Extract from the Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (Illustrations, Topical Index)
5. Essay: J.S. Mill's "The Spirit of the Age" (1831)
6. Essay on Religion: Goldie, Locke on Religious Toleration
7. Essay: discussion of Bastiat vol. 1
8. Essay: Leveller Tracts intro, bibliography, ToC
9. Essay: Cato Book Forum on Bastiat vol. 1
10. Essay: Quotes on Liberty and Power (2004-2011)
11. Essay: Locke on Religious Toleration by Mark Goldie
12. Forum: Additions in 2011
13. Forum: Additions in 2010
14. Forum: Anniversaries of Note in 2011: Books
15. Forum: Anniversaries of Note in 2011: People
16. Forum: Anniversaries 2012 (Books)
17. Forum: Anniversaries 2012 (People)
18. Forum: Anniversaries 2013 (Books)
19. Forum: Anniversaries 2013 (People)
20. Forum: Quotes by Bastiat on the State and the Free Market
21. Forum: Selected Quotations from Bastiat’s Collected Works, vol. 1 (2011)
22. Forum: Chronological List of Bastiat's Writings
23. Forum: Revised and Expanded Chronology of Bastiat's Life and Works
24. Forum: Paired Quotes and Images of the Week
25. Forum: Front Page Images (September 2010 - June 2011)
26. Timeline: corrected David Ricardo timeline
    

Quotations about Liberty and Power

At the end of 2011 there are 331 quotations about liberty and power (49 were added during 2011). At the end of 2009 I consolidated all the Quotations about Liberty and Power into a small book (in PDF format) with the idea of making it available as a survey or introduction to the ideas and texts in the OLL collection. I would like to do something similar with the 331 quotations spanning the years 2004-2011, perhaps as an iPad app or similar. I think this would work nicely on an iPad with the quotations, pop up info about the author and the quote, links back to the OLL website for further reading, and so on.

Quotations added in 2011

1. (25 December, 2011) Cobden on the complicity of the British people in supporting war (1852)
2. (18 December, 2011) Sven Forkbeard and new Yuletide Taxes (11thC)
3. (14 December, 2011) Leggett on the tendency of the government to become “the universal dispenser of good and evil” (1834)
4. (5 December, 2011) Socrates as the “gadfly” of the state (4thC BC)
5. (28 November, 2011) The City of War and the City of Peace on Achilles’ new shield (900 BC)
6. (21 November, 2011) Ferguson on the flourishing of man’s intellectual powers in a commercial society (1767)
7. (14 November, 2011) Adam Smith on how governments learn from each other the best way of draining money from the pockets of the people (1776)
8. (7 November, 2011) Madame de Staël on the tyrant Napoleon (1818)
9. (31 October, 2011) John Adams on how absolute power intoxicates those who excercise that power (1814)
10. (24 October, 2011) Cobden on the principle of non-intervention in the affairs of other countries (1859)
11. (17 October, 2011) Mises on classical liberalism and the gold standard (1928)
12. (9 October, 2011) Bastiat on the most universally useful freedom, namely to work and to trade (1847)
13. (3 October, 2011) Spooner on the “knaves,” the “dupes,” and “do-nothings” among government supporters (1870)
14. (26 September, 2011) Cobden urges the British Parliament not to be the “Don Quixotes of Europe” using military force to right the wrongs of the world (1854)
15. (19 September, 2011) Benjamin Constant and the Freedom of the Press (1815)
16. (12 September, 2011) Mises on how price controls lead to socialism (1944)
17. (5 September, 2011) Mises and the Emergence of Etatism in Germany (1944)
18. (29 August, 2011) James Mill likens the expence and economic stagnation brought about by war to a “pestilential wind” which ravages the country (1808)
19. (22 August, 2011) The Duke of Burgundy asks the Kings of France and England why “gentle peace” should not be allowed to return France to its former prosperity (1599)
20. (15 August, 2011) Cobden reminds the Liberals in Parliament that the motto of their party is “Economy, Retrenchment, and Reform!” (1862)
21. (8 August, 2011) Richard Cobden’s “I have a dream” speech about a world in which free trade is the governing principle (1846)
22. (5 August, 2011) Bastiat on the spirit of free trade as a reform of the mind itself (1847)
23. (26 July, 2011) John Locke on “perfect freedom” in the state of nature (1689)
24. (18 July, 2011) Spencer on spontaneous order produced by “the beneficent working of social forces” (1879)
25. (11 July, 2011) Pollock on “our lady” the common law and her devoted servants (1911)
26. (4 July, 2011) Jefferson on the right to change one’s government (1776)
27. (27 June, 2011) Tocqueville on the spirit of association (1835)
28. (20 June, 2011) Bastiat on the state vs. laissez-faire (1848)
29. (13 June, 2011) Bastiat on the many freedoms that make up liberty (1848)
30. (6 June, 2011) Adam Smith on the greater productivity brought about by the division of labor and technological innovation (1760s)
31. (30 May, 2011) Mill on the dangers of the state turning men into “docile instruments” of its will (1859)
32. (25 May, 2011) Grotius on Moderation in Despoiling the Country of one’s Enemies (1625)
33. (16 May, 2011) James Madison on the “sagacious and monied few” who are able to “harvest” the benefits of government regulations (1787)
34. (9 May, 2011) Sumner and the Conquest of the United States by Spain (1898)
35. (1 May, 2011) Luke, Taxes, and the Birth of Jesus (85)
36. (25 April, 2011) Thomas Paine on the absurdity of an hereditary monarchy (1791)
37. (17 April, 2011) John Stuart Mill on “the sacred right of insurrection” (1862)
38. (10 April, 2011) Mises on the public sector as “tax eaters” who “feast” on the assets of the ordinary tax payer (1953)
39. (7 March, 2011) Bastiat on the scramble for political office (1848)
40. (1 March, 2011) Algernon Sidney on the need for the law to be “deaf, inexorable, inflexible” and not subject to the arbitrary will of the ruler (1698)
41. (28 February, 2011) Bastiat on the need for urgent political and economic reform (1848)
42. (20 February, 2011) Paine on the idea that the law is king (1776)
43. (14 February, 2011) Bastiat on the fact that even in revolution there is an indestructible principle of order in the human heart (1848)
44. (7 February, 2011) Mises on the interconnection between economic and political freedom (1949)
45. (31 January, 2011) Sir Edward Coke explains one of the key sections of Magna Carta on English liberties (1642)
46. (24 January, 2011) Spooner on the difference between a government and a highwayman (1870)
47. (18 January, 2011) Knox on how the people during wartime are cowered into submission and pay their taxes “without a murmur” (1795)
48. (11 January, 2011) Bagehot on Government, the banking system, and moral hazard (1873)
49. (1 January, 2011) Emerson on selecting the right gift to give at Christmas and New Year (1844)

List of quotations sorted by themes: </index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=quotes.php&Itemid=275>

In an essay format: </index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1612&Itemid=366>.

We have increased the number of themes as the number of quotations has increased (there are now 23). The ultimate aim is to have a good spread of themes which will illustrate all the major ideas of the classical liberal tradition. Some of the themes are light-hearted, such as "Sport and Liberty" (to coincide with the Superbowl and the World Cup Soccer), "Food and Drink" (to coincide with Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays).

Themes

1. Colonies, Slavery & Abolition (14)
2. Economics (20)
3. Food & Drink (6)
4. Free Trade (11)
5. Freedom of Speech (4)
6. Law (18)
7. Literature & Music (21)
8. Money & Banking (11)
9. Natural Rights (3)
10. Odds & Ends (9)
11. Origin of Government (10)
12. Parties & Elections (15)
13. Philosophy (6)
14. Politics & Liberty (37)
15. Presidents, Kings, Tyrants, & Despots (39)
16. Property Rights (12)
17. Religion & Toleration (13)
18. Science (3)
19. Socialism & Interventionism (10)
20. Sport and Liberty (7)
21. Taxation (19)
22. War & Peace (36)
23. Women's Rights (6)

Images about Liberty and Power

I continued to develop the holdings of illustrations in the OLL . These were of three different kinds:

1. Images of Authors
2. Illustrated Essays of Images of Liberty and Power
3. Paired Images and Quotations

Images of Authors

In cases where we did not have an image of an author one was added where available (Wikipedia as well as government museums and art galleries where the material was not copyrighted or which allowed use for educational purposes). In many cases we now have mulitple images of an author to use for diifferent purposes.

Illustrated Essays of Images of Liberty and Power

During the course of 2011 I added 18 "illustrated essays" on important Images about Liberty and Power </index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=49&Itemid=263>:

1. The Gold Standard vs. Fiat Paper Money
2. Eugène Delacroix on Press Censorship during the Restoration (1814-1822)
3. Mises on Rationing and Price Controls in WW2
4. A Monument to Frédéric Bastiat (1878)
5. John Locke and Thomas Hollis
6. Jacques Callot, Hugo Grotius, and the Miseries of War in the 17th Century
7. The Spanish-American War and the Anti-Imperialism League (1902)
8. Brueghel, Taxes, and the Numeration of the People of Bethlehem (1566)
9. New Playing Cards for the French Republic (1793-94)
10. Abraham Lincoln as the "Federal Phoenix" (1864)
11. Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) and the Thomas Hollis Library of Liberty
12. Presidents Day and the Apotheosis of Washington
13. The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416)
14. Lilburne quoting Coke on English Liberties at his treason trial (1649)
15. Thomas Jefferson in the Cyclopedia
16. James Gillray on War and Taxes during the War against Napoleon
17. Liberty slaying the Monsters of Tyranny and Oppression
18. Images of the British Abolitionist Movement

Paired Images and Quotations

When it seemed appropriate I would sometimes pair an image and a quotation on a similar topic </index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1591&Itemid=263>. 20 were added in 2011:

1. October 17, 2011: Classical Liberalism and the Gold Standard
2. September 19, 2011: Censorship and Freedom of the Press in Restoration France, 1814-1822
3. September 13, 2011: Mises, Rationing and Price Controls in America during WW2
4. August 5, 2011: Bastiat, Free Trade, and Nazism
5. July 26, 2011: John Locke on “perfect freedom” in the state of nature (1689)
6. June 6, 2011: Adam Smith on the greater productivity brought about by the division of labor and technological innovation (1760s)
7. May 25, 2011: Jacques Callot, Hugo Grotius, and the Miseries of War in the 17th Century
8. May 10, 2011: Sumner on the Conquest of the U.S. by Spain & Teddy Roosevelt, Water Torture, and the Anti-Imperialism League (1902)
9. May 2, 2011: Luke, Taxes, and the Birth of Jesus (85) & Pieter Brueghel the Elder, "The Numeration (Census) of the People of Bethlehem" (1566)
10. April 25, 2011: Thomas Paine on the absurdity of an hereditary monarchy (1791) & New Playing Cards for the French Republic (1793-94): The Spirit of Peace (Motto: "Prosperity")
11. April 17, 2011: John Stuart Mill on "the sacred right of insurrection" (1862) & Abraham Lincoln as the "Federal Phoenix" rising from the fire of the American Constitution (1864)
12. April 10, 2011: Mises on the public sector as "tax eaters" who "feast" on the assets of the ordinary tax payer (1953) & The King as a "Tax Eater" by Honoré Daumier (1831)
13. April, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of April from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & Lord Kames on enlightened aesthetics of gardening vs. the corrupted taste shown by the absolute monarchs in the gardens of Versailles (1762)
14. March 1, 2011: Algernon Sidney on the need for the law to be "deaf, inexorable, inflexible" and not subject to the arbitrary will of the ruler (1698) & Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) and the Thomas Hollis Library of Liberty
15. March, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of March from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & Adam Smith on the greater productivity brought about by the the division of labour and its social consequences (1762)
16. February 20, 2011: Paine on the idea that the law is king (1776) & Presidents Day and the Apotheosis of Washington by John James Barralet (1802)
17. February, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of February from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & John Millar, on the "Causes of the freedom acquired by the labouring people in the modern nations of Europe" (1771)
18. January 31, 2011: Sir Edward Coke explains one of the key sections of Magna Carta on English liberties (1642) & John Lilburne reading from Coke's Institutes at his Treason Trial (1649)
19. January 24, 2011: Spooner on the difference between a government and a highwayman (1870) & James Gillray on Debt and Taxes during the Napoleonic Wars (1806)
20. January, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of January from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & Henry Home, Lord Kames, on the "Progress and Effects of Luxury" among the aristocracy (1778)
21. November 29, 2010: Shaftesbury on the need for liberty to promote the liberal arts (1712) & The Earl of Shaftesbury on Liberty and Harmony: Volume 2, Title Page (1713)

Other New Content and Features

ePub and Kindle Electronic Versions to Texts

We have made a concerted effort this year to get all our titles into formats which can be read by handheld reading devices such as the Kindle and the iPad. This was a very difficult and time consuming job as we had so many differently edited and arranged material to handle programatically. At the end of 2011 there were 1,320 titles in the OLL of which 1,061 were in HTML format (the rest are in PDF only). We now have a system in place which will automically create from the XML or XHTML a version of the book in text-based PDF, ePub, and (with a bit of hand tweaking) Kindle. We have over 850 books in ePub and slightly fewer in Kindle (790). We have excluded putting online books published by Liberty Fund as these are handled separately and will be sold.

A list of books in ePub format is available here </index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1598&Itemid=325>.

All the formats in which a book is available can be seen at each book's ToC page.

The 6th edition of the Portable Library of Liberty DVD contains the texts which are in ePub and Kinbdle formats.

Kindle versions of OLL titles can be transferred to a Kindle device via a USB cable. For information on doing this see <http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200375630>.

6th Edition of the Portable Library of Liberty DVD

The new 6th edition of the Portable Library of Liberty DVD was published in September 2011 and contained 1,047 titles in PDF, 850 titles in ePub, and 790 titles in Kindle formats. We have distributed 22,000 copies of all previous editions of the PLL DVD. We have nearly distributed 2,000 copies of the 6th edition.

Device Friendly Frontpage of Website

As part of our drive to make our material available on handheld reading devices, such as e-readers and mobile phones, we redesigned the front page of the OLL to make it look better on these devices.

We have also added a new way of accessing "Major Collections" and the works of key theorists from the front page.

Serverstats of the OLL Website

The number of visits to the OLL website dropped off in October 2010. This coincided with a change over to new servers at our hosting agency (Joyent) and I suspect there was a change in the which visits to the site were counted (this is the only explanation I have for the drop off).

In 2011 we had 3.76 million visitors with an average of 314,000 per month. [Total since March 2004 is 27 million]. Over the past 5 years (2007-2011) the OLL has had 22.7 million "visits" at an annual average of 4.5m.

22.76% of our visitors come from another "referring domain" (the main one is Wikipedia 20.35%) and 74.19% come from search engines (Google is by far the most important at 92.66%).

In order to guage what people are looking at on the site I have taken a snaphot of the 1st semester of the new academic year (September-December 2011) which is always our peak period in the year. I list below the most requested files (pdf and mp3) and the most visited pages (HTML).

20 most downloaded PDF files (62-3,224 hits):

1. The Parallel Bible (New Testament) Galations
2. The Parallel Bible (New Testament) James
3. Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man
4. Machiavelli, Works
5. The Parallel Bible (New Testament) Timothy 1
6. Gilgamesh
7. Guizot, History of Representative Government
8. Mises, Theory of Money and Credit
9. OLL User Guide
10. American Founding Timeline
11. The Federalist
12. Mises, Socialism
13. Jefferson, Works vol. 1
14. Works of the Venerable Bede, vol. 6
15. Henry Clark, Capitalism before Adam Smith
16. Plutarch, Morals, vol. 5
17. Timeline of Adam Smith
18. Timeline John Locke
19. Hume, Treatise of Human Nature
20. Wall poster of Natural Law and Enlightenment series

20 most downloaded mp3 audio files (88-1,427 hits) - 15 of which are audios of the Intellectual Portraits Series. The items in bold are "audio books" a small number of which I created as an experiment. These are audio books with a computer generated voice.:

1. Becker
2. Bastiat, Economic Harmonies Part 2
3. Bastiat, The Law
4. Bastiat, Economic Harmonies Part 1
5. Kirzner
6. Barzun
7. Jasay
8. Walters
9. Alchian
10. Jaffa
11. Mill, On Liberty
12. Mill, The Subjection of Women
13. Voltaire, Candide
14. Friedman
15. Harris
16. Bauer
17. Coase
18. Hartwell
19. McCracken
20. Buchanan Part 1

20 most visited HTML pages (20 or more hits):

1. Frohnen, The American Nation
2. Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays
3. Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention
4. Taylor, Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the US Government
5. Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man
6. JS Mill, Works, Principles of the Political Economy
7. JS Mill, Works vol. 28 - "Disturbances in Jamaica"
8. Tocqueville, Ancien Régime
9. Marlowe, Works vol. 3, Hero and Leander
10. Gibbon, Decline and Fall vol. 9
11. Starbuck, The Goodriches
12. Mandeville, Fable of the Bees
13. Weaver, "Humanities" in New Individualist Review
14. Adams, Works vol. 8
15. JS Mill, Works vol. 27 Journals
16. Erasmus, Praise of Folly
17. Kant, Thoughts on Education
18. Lalor, Cyclopedia vol. 1
19. Rommen, Natural Law
20. Buddha, Gospel

7 most viewed Images of Liberty and Power (547-5,760):

1. Rationing in WW2
2. Washington and Presidents Day
3. Wade and Daumier on the Ruling Class
4. The Divine Right of Kings
5. Duc de Berry
6. The Gold Standard
7. Gillray on War Taxes

10 most viewed Quotations about Liberty and Power (290-913 hits):

1. Cobden "I have a dream speech"
2. Smith on trade wars
3. Mises on price controls
4. Beccaria on torture
5. Mises on Etatism in Germany
6. Bastiat on Free Trade
7. Mill on insurrection
8. Cobden on non-interventionism
9. Locke on perfect freedom
10. Knox on paying taxes in wartime

Other Activities

Public Talks and Lectures to Promote the OLL and the Frédéric Bastiat Translation Project

During 2011 I gave 14 lectures on the life and work of Frédéric Bastiat to groups ranging from professional associations, economics department, Bastiat Societies, and general audiences. Since I began doing these talks in October 2010 I have given a total of 16:

1. December 1: Bastiat Forum, Sydney - "Why Broken Windows and Candles Matter: The Continuing Importance of Frédéric Bastiat"
2. November 26: Mises Seminar, Sydney - "How Austrian were the French? [Or How French are the Austrians?]"
3. 14 October: Cato Institute Book Forum (on Bastiat, Collected Works vol. 1) at the Cato Institute and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Washington D.C
4. September 26, 2011, IU Bloomington IN: Talk on Bastiat at the Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis
5. August 3, 2011, Charleston, SC: Talk on Bastiat to the Bastiat Society.
6. July 12, 2011 Perth, Western Australia: St. George's College, University of Western Australia - Frédéric Bastiat (1801-50): Campaigner for Free Trade, Political Economist, and Politician in a Time of Revolution
7. July 12, 2011, Fremantle, Western Australia: Seminar at Economics Department, Notre Dame University on Frédéric Bastiat’s" Rhetoric of Liberty in the Economic Sophisms (1846-1850)"
8. July 5-8, 2011, RMIT Melbourne, Victoria: a paper given at the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA) annual meeting - Frédéric Bastiat’s Rhetoric of Liberty in the Economic Sophisms (1846-1850)
9. April 6, 2011: "The Liberty Fund & and the Battle for Ideas about Liberty" and "A Brief Introduction to the Thought of Frédéric Bastiat", a talk to the Mt. Hamilton Society, Silicon Valley Capital Club, Knight Ridder Building, San Jose.
10. April 4, 2011: "Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850): Campaigner for Free Trade, Political Economist, & Politician in a Time of Revolution", David S. Saurman Provocative Lecture Series, Dept. of Economics, San Jose State University.
11. April 2, 2011: "Celebrating Economics & Liberty," Arizona Society of Economic Teachers, Phoenix, Arizona. Keynote Address: Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850): Campaigner for Free Trade, Political Economist, & Politician in a Time of Revolution
12. February 26 , 2011: Lecture on Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850): Campaigner for Free Trade, Political Economist, & Politician in a Time of Revolution, "Evening at FEE", Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY, February 26, 2011, 6.15-9.30 pm.
13. February 17, 2011: Lecture on Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850): Campaigner for Free Trade, Political Economist, & Politician in a Time of Revolution, Economics Department, George Mason University, Fairfax VA.
14. February 8, 2011: Lecture on The Importance of Frédéric Bastiat at Economics Department, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
15. 15 October, 2010: "Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850): Campaigner for Free Trade, Political Economist, & Politician in a Time of Revolution" at the Institute for Liberal Studies, University of Ottawa
16. November 1, 2010, 8.00-9.00 PM Eastern Standard Time: "Frédéric Bastiat: The Legendary Life and Works at a Time of Revolution": Students for Liberty, Webinar.

The resources I use in these talks include:

• timelines of Bastiat's life and work
• an expanded chronology of his life and work
• select quotations from vol. 1 of the Collected Works
• a chronological ToC of Bastiat's writings
• slide presentation (in PDF and HTML)
• information sheets on the resources at the OLL, Econlib
• a glossary on the world of French political economy
• limericks I have written about Bastiat
• visual essay about the monuments to Bastiat and Cobden
• other Bastiat resources on the OLL website

During 2011 I gave 4 presentations promoting the online resources of Liberty Fund to foundations, centres, and economics teachers:

1. November 29: Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney - public lecture on "Images of Liberty & Power"
2. July 11, 2011, Perth: Seminar at the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation on "Ideas and the Internet: The Prospects for Liberty"
3. April 2, 2011: "Celebrating Economics & Liberty," Arizona Society of Economic Teachers, Phoenix, Arizona: Breakout Session: "How to use Liberty Fund's online resources on Economics."
4. February 18, 2011: Talk to staff at the Institute for Humane Studies, Arlington VA on the features of the Online Library of Liberty.