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New Liberty Fund Titles 2006
This List Is By:
Liberty Fund Staff
Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
This is a partial list of books published by Liberty Fund during the 2006 calendar year (to be completed later). Those titles which are not available online are also listed below for your information.
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All titles which are available online are listed here.
The following titles are not available online:
- Gordon Tullock, The Selected Works, vol. 10
- The Collected Works of Armen Alchian, vols. 1 & 2
January 2006: Sir James Mackintosh, Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution [1791]
Vindiciae Gallicae was James Mackintosh’s first major publication, a contribution to the debate begun by Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. The success of Mackintosh’s defense of the French Revolution propelled him into the heart of London Whig circles. The turn of events in France following the September 1792 Massacres caused Mackintosh, along with other moderate Whigs, to revise his opinions and to move closer to Burke’s position. A Discourse on the Law of Nature and Nations was the introduction to a popular course of public lectures at Lincoln’s Inn in 1799 and 1800. These lectures provided Mackintosh with an opportunity to complete the evolution of his political thought by expounding the principles of a Scottish version of the science of natural jurisprudence dealing with “the rights and duties of men and of states,” to announce his withdrawal of support for the French Revolution, and to criticize former allies on the radical wing of the reform movement. The Liberty Fund edition also includes Mackintosh’s Letter to William Pitt, an attack on the prime minister, Pitt the Younger, for going back on his own record as a parliamentary reformer; and On the State of France in 1815, his reflections on the nature and causes of the French Revolution.
Sir James Mackintosh, Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution, edited and with an Introduction by Donald Winch (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1665 on 2010-01-13
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February 2006: John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks [1771]
The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks is one of the major products of the Scottish Enlightenment and a masterpiece of jurisprudence and social theory. Millar developed a progressive account of the nature of authority in society by analyzing changes in subsistence, agriculture, arts, and manufacture. The book is perhaps the most precise and compact development of the abiding themes of the liberal wing of the Scottish Enlightenment. Drawing on Smith’s four-stages theory of history and the natural law’s traditional division of domestic duties into those toward servants, children, and women, Millar provides a rich historical analysis of the ways in which progressive economic change transforms the nature of authority. In particular, he argues that, with the progress of arts and manufacture, authority tends to become less violent and concentrated, and ranks tend to diversify. Millar’s analysis of this historical progress is nuanced and sophisticated; for example, his discussion of servants is perhaps the best developed of the “economic” arguments against slavery.
John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks; or, An Inquiry into the Circumstances which give rise to Influence and Authority in the Different Members of Society, edited and with an Introduction by Aaron Garrett (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
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March 2006: Francis Hutcheson, Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind [1730]
Until the publication of this Liberty Fund edition, all but one of the works contained in Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind were available only in Latin. This milestone English translation will provide a general audience with insight into Hutcheson’s thought. In the words of the editors: “Hutcheson’s Latin texts in logic and metaphysics form an important part of his collected works. Published respectively in 1756 and, in its second edition, 1744, these works represent Hutcheson’s only systematic treatments of logic, ontology, and pneumatology, or the science of the soul. They were considered indispensable texts for the instruction of students in the eighteenth century.”
Francis Hutcheson, Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind, ed. James Moore and Michael Silverthorne, texts translated from the Latin by Michael Silverthorne, introduction by James Moore (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1723 on 2010-01-13
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April 2006: John Stuart Mill, Autobiography and Literary Essays (2006).
This work contains Mill’s autobiography and some literary essays mostly from the 1830s.
John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume I - Autobiography and Literary Essays, ed. John M. Robson and Jack Stillinger, introduction by Lord Robbins (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/242 on 2010-01-07
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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.
John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume II - The Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy (Books I-II), ed. John M. Robson, introduction by V.W. Bladen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965).
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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.
Hugo Grotius, Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty, ed. and with an Introduction by Martine Julia van Ittersum (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1718 on 2010-01-07
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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.
Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method, ed Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1820 on 2010-01-07
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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.
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, The Principles of Natural and Politic Law, trans. Thomas Nugent, ed. and with an Introduction by Peter Korkman (Indianpolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1717 on 2010-01-07
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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.
David Womersely, Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century, edited and with an Introduction by David Womersley (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1727 on 2010-01-07
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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.
John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume IV - Essays on Economics and Society Part I, ed. John M. Robson, Introduction by Lord Robbins (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967).
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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.
John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume VII - A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation (Books I-III), ed. John M. Robson, Introduction by R.F. McRae (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974).
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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.
Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time, trans. Leland B. Yeager, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1819 on 2010-01-07
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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.
John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume X - Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society, ed. John M. Robson, Introduction by F.E.L. Priestley (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985).
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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.
John Millar, An Historical View of the English Government, From the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Revolution in 1688, in four volumes, edited by Mark Salber Philips and Dale R. Smith, introduction by Mark Salber Philips (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1886 on 2010-01-07
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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.
Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-capitalist Mentality, edited and with a preface by Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1889 on 2010-01-07
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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.
Ludwig von Mises, Economic Freedom and Interventionism: An Anthology of Articles and Essays, selected and edited by Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).
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