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Online Library of Liberty The OLL is a curated collection of scholarly works that engage with vital questions of liberty.

Spanning the centuries from Hammurabi to Hume, and collecting material on topics from art and economics to law and political theory, the OLL provides you with a rich variety of texts to explore and consider.

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Best of the OLL The Best of Bastiat 2.2: Property Plunder

The Best of Bastiat (BOB) is a collection of some of the best material in Liberty Fund’s 6 volume edition of The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat (2011-). They are chapter length extracts and have been edited as pamphlets for easier distribution in PDF, ePub, and Kindle formats. These extracts should be useful in the classroom, discussion groups, or material for a literature table for outrea...

Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Ideas About Liberty Hans Eicholz, "Understanding Jefferson: Slavery, Race, and the Declaration of Independence" (July 2021)

Welcome to the July 2021 edition of Liberty Matters. This month we convene a panel of distinguished scholars to ask, "Who was Thomas Jefferson, and how did his views--particularly those on race, slavery, and freedom--inform his writings, including the Declaration of Independence?" Lead essayist Hans Eicholz, an historian and Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, kicks things off in our lead essay by s...

Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power Adam Smith and J.B. Say on the Division of Labour

Related Links: School of Thought: The Scotttish Enlightenment School of Thought: The French Enlightenment Subject Area: Economics The Division of Labour: Adam Smith and the Pin-Maker; J.B. Say and the Playing Card Manufacturer One of the most famous stories in economics is Adam Smith's story of the pin-maker. It has been repeated endlessly by other economists as it enc...

Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power Jeremy Bentham on rights as a creation of the state alone (1831)

The English utilitarian political philosopher and lawyer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) dismissed the notion of “natural” rights as nonsense and argued the all rights were the creation of the state:

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