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May 2007: Christian Thomasius, Essays on Church, State, and Politics (2007). In these essays Thomasius discusses the
political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia which enjoyed limited
religious toleration following the
Peace of Westphalia (1648). [Order a copy from the online catalog].
April 2007:
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, The Pacificus–Helvidius Debates of 1793–1794 (2007). This is a discussion about the proper
roles of the executive and legislative branches in the conduct of
American foreign policy which was ignited by President Washington’s Neutrality
Proclamation of 1793. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
March 2007: Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, 4 vols. (2007). Mises, one of the leading members of the Austrian school of economics, presents economics as a scientific study of human action or praxeology. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
February 2007: Samuel von Pufendorf, The Present State of Germany (2007). This is an account of German constitutional law detailing the historical
relations between the Emperor and the Estates. It raises the
basic question of how effective political unity is compatible with
competing values of diversity and individual liberty. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
February 2007: Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy (2007). First published in 1944 Bureaucracy contrasts two forms of economic management—that of a
free market economy in which entrepreneurs are driven to serve consumers, and bureaucracy in which managers must comply
with orders issued by a legislative body. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
December 2006: Ludwig von Mises, Economic Freedom and Interventionism (2006). An anthology of Mises' writings on the role of government, his
discussion of inequality of wealth, inflation, socialism, welfare, and
economic education. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
November 2006: Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalist Mentality (2006). Mises explains the causes of the irrational fear and hatred
many intellectuals and others feel for capitalism. He discusses the misunderstandings and
resultant fears that cause resistance to economic development and
social change. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
October 2006:
John Millar, An Historical View of the English Government (1803). Millar argues that liberties achieved through revolution and maintained by the manners of a commercial nation may not secure liberty forever. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
August 2006: Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time, (2006). Published less than a year after Austria’s defeat in World War I,
in this work Mises examines and compares prewar and postwar economic conditions and the develops the theory that each country’s prosperity supports
rather than undercuts the prosperity of other countries. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
August 2006: John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic (2006). Mill explores the basic principles of inductive reasoning. In contrast to Aristotle’s syllogisms, which are based on deductive reasoning, Logic provides an alternate path to knowledge and constitutes an important contribution to the development of the scientific method.[Order a copy from the online catalog].
August 2006: John Stuart Mill, Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society (2006). This volume contains a number of Mill’s essays on religion and moral philosophy as well as his works on Utilitarianism and Auguste Comte.[Order a copy from the online catalog].
July 2006: John Stuart Mill, Essays on Economics and Society (2006). A 2 volume collection which contains a number of Mill’s essays on economic topics, including the
collection Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy and Chapters on Socialism. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
July 2006: Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century, ed. David Womersley (2006). A collection of essays which examines some of the central themes and ideologies central to the formation of the United States. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
May 2006: Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science (2006). Mises argues that economics, with
its basis in human action, is indeed a science in its own right
and not an ideology or a metaphysical doctrine. [Order a copy from the online catalog]
May 2006: Hugo Grotius, Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty (2006). Mare Liberum is just one chapter in a manuscript of 163
folios, written in justification of the capture of the Portuguese
merchantman Santa Catarina in the Strait of Singapore in February 1603. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
May 2006: Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, The Principles of Natural and Politic Law (2006). This classic work on natural law influenced America’s Founding Fathers and the development of the American constitutional system. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
April 2006: John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (2006). First published in 1848, Principles of Political Economy established Mill as a leading economic thinker of his time, and this work endured as the principal economics textbook for the balance of the nineteenth century. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
April 2006: John Stuart Mill, Autobiography and Literary Essays (2006). This work contains Mill’s autobiography and some literary essays mostly from the 1830s. [Order a copy from the online catalog].
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