Best of the OLL
About this Collection
Helpful introductions and carefully edited selections bring the OLL into focus. With recommendations for further reading and useful explanatory notes, these Best of the OLL selections are an ideal way to begin exploring the ideas of liberty.
Members:
- BOLL 16: Leland Yeager, “The Positive Case for Free Trade” (1954) (Leland B. Yeager)
- BOLL 17: Milton Friedman, “Capitalism and Freedom” (1961) (Milton Friedman)
- BOLL 18: Friedrich Hayek, “Kinds of Order in Society” (1964) (Friedrich August von Hayek)
- BOLL 19: Israel Kirzner, “Entrepreneurial Activity and the General Market Process” (1963) (Israel M. Kirzner)
- BOLL 20: J.B. Say, “Of the Demand or Market for Products” (1819) (Jean-Baptiste Say)
- BOLL 21: Jeremy Bentham, “The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number” (1830) (Jeremy Bentham)
- BOLL 22: The Right to Ignore the State (Herbert Spencer)
- BOLL 23: Abbé de Condillac, “On Value and Trade” (1776) (Étienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac)
- BOLL 24: Spooner, “Vices are Not Crimes” (Lysander Spooner)
- BOLL 25: Estienne de la Boétie, “The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude” (1552) (Etienne de la Boétie)
- BOLL 26: Lao Tzu, “The Tao of Governing” (6thC BC) (Lao Tzu)
- BOLL 27: Kirzner, “Economic Coordination” (1963) (Israel M. Kirzner)
- BOLL 28: Norman Barry, “Hayek’s Theory of Spontaneous Order I: Economic Orders” (1982) (Norman P. Barry)
- BOLL 29: Norman Barry, “Hayek’s Theory of Spontaneous Order II: Legal Orders” (1982) (Norman P. Barry)
- BOLL 30: Richard Cobden, “On the Total and Immediate Repeal of the Corn Laws” (1846) (Richard Cobden)
- BOLL 31: Samuel anoints Saul the First King of Israel (c. 1,000 B.C.) (Samuel)
- BOLL 32: Richard Overton, “An Arrow against all Tryants and Tyrany” (October, 1646) (Richard Overton)
- BOLL 33: Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792) (Mary Wollstonecraft)
- BOLL 34: James Mill, The State of the Nation (1835) (James Mill)
- BOLL 35: James Madison, “The Utility of the Union As a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection” (1788) (James Madison)
- BOLL 36: Lord Acton, “Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History” (1895) (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
- BOLL 37: Montesquieu, “Of the Constitution of England” (1748) (Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu)
- BOLL 38: Daniel Webster, “Speech on the Draft” (1814) (Daniel Webster)
- BOLL 39: Adam Smith, “Of the Character of Virtue” (1759) (Adam Smith)
- BOLL 40: Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence” (1776) (Thomas Jefferson)