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New Liberty Fund Titles 2007
This List Is By:
Liberty Fund Staff
Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
This is a list of books published by Liberty Fund during the 2007 calendar year. Those titles which are not available online are listed below for your information.
To order any of these titles please visit Liberty Fund’s online catalog.
Titles which are not available online:
- September 2007: Thach, The Creation of the Presidency, 1775–1789: A Study in Constitutional History
Titles which are available at Econlib:
- November 2007: David R. Henderson, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
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.
Samuel von Pufendorf, The Present State of Germany, trans. Edmund Bohun, edited and with an Introduction by Michael J. Seidler (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1890 on 2010-01-08
The copyright to this edition, in both print and electronic forms, is held by Liberty Fund, Inc.
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.
Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy, edited and with a Foreword by Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1891 on 2010-01-08
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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.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, in 4 vols., ed. Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1892 on 2010-01-08
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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.
Alexander Hamilton, The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794: Toward the Completion of the American Founding, edited with and Introduction by Morton J. Frisch (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1910 on 2010-01-08
Material by Washington and Madison is published by permission from The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (Columbia University Press) and by Jefferson and Madison from The Papers of James Madison (University Press of Virginia).
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).
Christian Thomasius, Essays on Church, State, and Politics, edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Ian Hunter, Thomas Ahnert, and Frank Grunert (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1926 on 2010-01-08
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June 2007: Henry Home (Lord Kames), Sketches of the History of Man, 3 volumes.
Written late in his life, this 3 volume work deals with the idea of human progress. Vol. 1 deals with progress in property law, commerce, the treatment of women, and luxury. Vol. 2 deals with the development of states, government, and taxation. Vol. 3 deals with the progress of science.
Henry Home, Lord Kames, Sketches of the History of Man Considerably enlarged by the last additions and corrections of the author, edited and with an Introduction by James A. Harris (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007). 3 Vols.
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2031 on 2010-01-08
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July 2007: Francis Hutcheson, Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria.
This Liberty Fund publication of Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria is a parallel edition of the English and Latin versions of a book designed by Hutcheson for use in the classroom. General Editor Knud Haakonssen remarks that “Hutcheson’s Institutio was written as a textbook for university students and it therefore covers a curriculum which has an institutional background static/in his own university, Glasgow. This was a curriculum crucially influenced by Hutcheson’s predecessor Gershom Carmichael, and at its center was modern natural jurisprudence as systematized by Grotius, Pufendorf, and others… . The Institutio is the first major [published] attempt by Hutcheson to deal with natural law on his own terms… . It therefore encapsulates the axis of natural law and Scottish Enlightenment ideas, which so many other thinkers, including Adam Smith, worked with in their different ways. It is of great significance that this work issued from the class in which Smith sat as a student.”
Francis Hutcheson, Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria with a Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, edited and with an Introduction by Luigi Turco (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2059 on 2010-01-08
The copyright to this edition, in both print and electronic forms, is held by Liberty Fund, Inc.
September 2007: William Findley, Observations on “The Two Sons of Oil”: Containing a Vindication of the American Constitutions and Defending the Blessings of Religious Liberty and Toleration, against the Illiberal Strictures of the Rev. Samuel B. Wylie.
Observations on “The Two Sons of Oil” was written in 1811 in response to the Reverend Samuel B. Wylie’s work, The Two Sons of Oil, which was published in 1803. In this work of radical Presbyterian theology, Wylie pointed out what he considered to be deficiencies in the constitutions of both Pennsylvania and the United States and declared them to be immoral. Findley’s response to Wylie’s criticisms in Observations showed that it was neither the purpose nor the design of the United States government to have a federal religion and a federal creed. In a broader sense the book is also a passionate defense of a civil government guided by moral principles that allow for essential freedoms. Findley’s defense of religious liberty and the American constitutions affords a grand window through which to view early American understanding about the relationship between politics and faith and why it is essential for both liberty and piety to resist any attempt to unite government and Church.
William Findley, Observations on “The Two Sons of Oil”, Containing a Vindication of the American Constitutions, and Defending the Blessings of Religious Liberty and Toleration, against the Illiberal Strictures of the Rev. Samuel B. Wylie, edited and with an introduction by John Caldwell (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2062 on 2010-01-08
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October 2007: James Wilson, Collected Works of James Wilson, 2 volumes.
This two-volume set brings together a collection of writings and speeches of James Wilson, one of only six signers of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and one of the most influential members of the federal Constitutional Convention in 1787. Wilson’s writings and speeches had a significant impact on the deliberations that produced the cornerstone documents of our democracy. Wilson’s signal contribution to the founding of our national government was his advocacy for both a strong national government and an open and democratic political system, a position that set him apart from both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.
James Wilson, Collected Works of James Wilson, edited by Kermit L. Hall and Mark David Hall, with an Introduction by Kermit L. Hall, and a Bibliographical Essay by Mark David Hall, collected by Maynard Garrison (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007). 2 vols.
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2073 on 2010-01-08
The Introduction, Collector’s Foreword, Collector’s Acknowledgments, Annotations, Bibliographical Essay are the copyright of Liberty Fund 2007. The Bibliographical Glossary in volume 2 is reprinted by permission of the copyright holders the President and Fellows of Harvard College 1967.
November 2007: Jean Louis De Lolme, The Constitution of England; Or, An Account of the English Government.
The Constitution of England is one of the most distinguished eighteenth-century treatises on English political liberty. In the vein of Charles Louis Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws (1748) and William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), De Lolme’s account of the English system of government exercised an extensive influence on political debate in Britain, on constitutional design in the United States during the Founding era, and on the growth of liberal political thought throughout the nineteenth century.
Jean Louis De Lolme, The Constitution of England; Or, an Account of the English Government, edited and with an Introduction by David Lieberman (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2089 on 2010-01-08
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December 2007: Charles H. McIlwain, Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern.
Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern explores the very roots of liberty by examining the development of modern constitutionalism from its ancient and medieval origins. Derived from a series of lectures delivered by Charles Howard McIlwain at Cornell University in the 1938–39 academic year, these lectures provide a useful introduction to the development of modern constitutional forms.
Charles Howard McIlwain, Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2145 on 2010-01-08
First published in 1940 by Cornell University Press. Material from the Revised Edition copyright 1947 by Cornell University, copyright renewed 1975; it has been included by permission of the original publisher, Cornell University Press.
December 2007: A.V. Dicey, Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century.
This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during the nineteenth century and its impact on legislation. It is an accessible attempt by an Edwardian liberal to make sense of recent British history. In our time, it helps define what it means to be an individualist or liberal. Dicey’s lectures were a reflection of the anxieties felt by turn-of-the-century Benthamite Liberals in the face of Socialist and New Liberal challenges.
Albert Venn Dicey, Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century, edited and with an Introduction by Richard VandeWetering (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2119 on 2010-01-08
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