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Classic Works Collection I
This List Is By:
Liberty Fund Staff
Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
This is a collection of classic titles which are currently out of print. They deal with the issues of peace, free trade, economic principles, individualism, socialism, property rights, the state, legal theory, and absolute monarchy. Most of them were published during the 19th century.
John Bright, Selected Speeches of the Rt. Hon. John Bright M.P. On Public Questions [1853]
John Bright, Selected Speeches of the Rt. Hon. John Bright M.P. On Public Questions, introduction by Joseph Sturge (London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1907).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1658 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Richard Cobden, The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, vol. 1 [1835]
Richard Cobden, The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, with a Preface by Lord Welby, Introductions by Sir Louis Mallet, C.B., and William Cullen Bryant, Notes by F.W. Chesson and a Bibliography, vol. 1, (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/82 on 2009-11-04
The text is in the public domain.
Richard Cobden, The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, vol. 2 [1853]
Richard Cobden, The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, with a Preface by Lord Welby, Introductions by Sir Louis Mallet, C.B., and William Cullen Bryant, Notes by F.W. Chesson and a Bibliography, vol. 1, (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/231 on 2009-11-04
The text is in the public domain.
Richard Cobden, Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 1 Free Trade and Finance [1870]
Richard Cobden, Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, M.P., ed. by John Bright and J.E. Thorold Rogers with a Preface and Appreciation by J.E. Thorold Rogers and an Appreciation by Goldwin Smith (London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1908). 2 volumes in 1. Vol. 1 Free Trade and Finance.
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/927 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Richard Cobden, Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 2 War, Peace, and Reform [1870]
Richard Cobden, Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, M.P., ed. by John Bright and J.E. Thorold Rogers with a Preface and Appreciation by J.E. Thorold Rogers and an Appreciation by Goldwin Smith (London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1908). 2 volumes in 1. Vol. 2 War, Peace, and Reform.
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/931 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy, A Treatise On Political Economy [1817]
Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy, A Treatise on Political Economy: to which is Prefixed a Supplement to a Preceding Work on the Understanding or Elements of Ideology; with an Analytical Table, and an Introduction on the Faculty of the Will (Georgetown: Joseph Milligan, 1817).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/121 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Individualism: A System of Politics [1889]
Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Individualism: A System of Politics (London: Macmillan and Co., 1889).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/291 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Thomas Mackay, A Policy of Free Exchange. Essays by Various Writers on the Economical and Social Aspects of Free Exchange and Kindred Subjects [1894]
Thomas Mackay, A Policy of Free Exchange. Essays by Various Writers on the Economical and Social Aspects of Free Exchange and Kindred Subjects, edited by Thomas Mackay (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1894).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/314 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Thomas Gordon, A Discourse of Standing Armies; shewing the Folly, Uselessness, and Danger of Standing Armies in Great Britain [1722]
Thomas Gordon, A Discourse of Standing Armies; shewing the Folly, Uselessness, and Danger of Standing Armies in Great Britain, 3rd edition (London: T. Warner, 1722).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1719 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Thomas Gordon, An Essay on Government [1747]
Thomas Gordon, An Essay on Government (London: J. Roberts, 1747).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1348 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Yves Guyot, The Tyranny of Socialism [1893]
Yves Guyot, The Tyranny of Socialism, ed. J.H. Levy (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1894).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/91 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Thomas Hodgskin, The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted [1832]
Thomas Hodgskin, The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted. A Series of Letters, addressed without permission to H. Brougham, Esq. M.P. F.R.S. (London: B. Steil, 1832).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/323 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
James Mill, Commerce Defended. An Answer to the Arguments by which Mr. Spence, Mr. Cobbett, and Others, have attempted to Prove that Commerce is not a source of National Wealth [1808]
James Mill, Commerce Defended. An Answer to the Arguments by which Mr. Spence, Mr. Cobbett, and Others, have attempted to Prove that Commerce is not a source of National Wealth (London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1808).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1668 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Gustave de Molinari, The Society of Tomorrow [1899]
Gustave de Molinari, The Society of Tomorrow: A Forecast of its Political and Economic Organization, ed. Hodgson Pratt and Frederic Passy, trans. P.H. Lee Warner (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/228 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Franz Oppenheimer, The State [1919]
Franz Oppenheimer, The State: Its History and Development viewed Sociologically, authorized translation by John M. Gitterman (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1922).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1662 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Condy Raguet, The Principles of Free Trade [1835]
Condy Raguet, The Principles of Free Trade illustrated in a series of short and familiar Essays originally published in the Banner of the Constitution, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia, 1840).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2221 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Eugen Richter, Pictures of the Socialistic Future [1893]
Eugen Richter, Pictures of the Socialistic Future (Freely adapted from Bebel), trans. Henry Wright, Introduction by Thomas Mackay (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1907).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/295 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Jean Baptiste Say, A Treatise on Political Economy [1803]
Jean Baptiste Say, A Treatise on Political Economy; or the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth, ed. Clement C. Biddle, trans. C. R. Prinsep from the 4th ed. of the French, (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855. 4th-5th ed. ).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/274 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Herbert Spencer, Social Statics [1851]
Herbert Spencer, Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed, (London: John Chapman, 1851).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/273 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury [1852]
Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury (Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2181 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
John Taylor, An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States [1814]
John Taylor, An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (Fredericksburg, VA.: Green and Cady, 1814).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1308 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
John Taylor, Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated [1820]
John Taylor, Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (Richmond: Shepherd and Pollard, 1820).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/899 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
James Tyrrell, Patriarcha non monarcha. The Patriarch unmonarch’d [1681]
James Tyrrell, Patriarcha non monarcha. The Patriarch unmonarch’d: Being Observations on a late treatise and divers other miscellanies, published under the name of Sir Robert Filmer Baronet. In which the falseness of those opinions that would make monarchy Jure Divino are laid open: and the true Principles of Government and Property (especially in our Kingdom) asserted. By a Lover of Truth and of his Country (London: Richard Janeway, 1681).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2168 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.
Francis Amasa Walker, Political Economy [1887]
Francis Amasa Walker, Political Economy (London: Macmillan, 1892) 3rd revised and enlarged edition.
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/157 on 2009-11-03
The text is in the public domain.