The Online Library of Liberty

Visit our archive of Featured Authors, selected because of their special contribution to the idea of liberty.

Visit our Portrait Gallery of great economists and political philosophers or browse our list of authors alphabetically or by historical period.

[At left: the great 19th century English classical liberal Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)]

See what has been recently added to the Forum, which contains essays, biographies, bibliographies, reading lists, images and other educational material about the authors and the books. A full list is here.

[At left: Chaucer's astrolabe] 

We periodically feature a new addition to the Online Library of Liberty which is particularly noteworthy.

[At left Frederick Douglass]

We feature the latest release of books published by Liberty Fund as well as interesting titles from the back catalog.