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Collection: An Introduction to the Study of Liberty - Works to Begin with

The following texts have been selected as being particularly appropriate for those who are new to the study of individual liberty, limited government, and the free market. These works have been written as introductory works or for a broader reading public. Some appeared as newspaper or magazine articles, and some as lectures or talks. It is hoped that these works will lead the reader to explore more of the Online Library of Liberty. Clicking on the author’s name will take you to that author’s bio page which contains a list of other works by that author. One can also explore the OLL by historical period, discipline or subject area, topics, and debates.

19 Titles in this Group:

authors and editors   title ↑ pub. date  
author: Desiderius Erasmus, translator: Thomas Paynell The Complaint of Peace 1521
author: Frédéric Bastiat, editor: George B. de Huszar, translator: W. Hayden Boyers, introduction: Dean Russell Economic Harmonies (Boyers trans.) 1850
author: Frédéric Bastiat, translator: Arthur Goddard, introduction: Henry Hazlitt Economic Sophisms 1845
author: Leonard E. Read, introduction: Milton Friedman “I, Pencil: My Family Tree” as told to Leonard E. Read, Dec. 1958 1958
author: Frédéric Bastiat, translator: Dean Russell, introduction: Walter E. Williams, foreword: Sheldon L. Richman The Law 1850
author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton, editor: John Neville Figgis, editor: Reginald Vere Laurence Lectures on Modern History 1906
editor: Lance Banning Liberty and Order: The First American Party Struggle 2004
author: Herbert Spencer, foreword: Eric Mack The Man versus the State, with Six Essays on Government, Society and Freedom (LF ed.) 1884
author: John Stuart Mill On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (1879 ed.) 1859
author: Eugen Richter, introduction: Thomas Mackay, translator: Henry Wright Pictures of the Socialistic Future 1893
author: Thomas Mackay, editor: Thomas Mackay, foreword: Jeffrey Paul, introduction: Herbert Spencer, author: Edward Stanley Robertson, author: Wordsworth Donisthorpe, author: George Howell, author: Charles Fairfield, author: Edmund Vincent, author: Rev. B.H. Alford, author: Arthur Raffalovich, author: Frederick Millar, author: M.D. O’Brien, author: F.W. Beauchamp Gordon, author: Auberon Herbert A Plea for Liberty: An Argument against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation (LF ed.) 1891
author: Frédéric Bastiat, translator: Seymour Cain, editor: George B. de Huszar, introduction: Friedrich August von Hayek Selected Essays on Political Economy 1848
author: Samuel Smiles Self Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct 1859
author: Yves Guyot Socialistic Fallacies 1910
author: Gustave de Molinari, translator: P. H. Lee Warner, editor: Frédéric Passy, editor: Hodgson Pratt The Society of Tomorrow: A Forecast of its Political and Economic Organization 1899
author: Anthony de Jasay The State 1985
author: Yves Guyot, editor: Joseph Hiam Levy The Tyranny of Socialism 1893
author: Friedrich August von Hayek “The Use of Knowledge in Society” 1945
author: Yves Guyot, translator: Harriet Franc Baker Where and Why Public Ownership has Failed 1912