Reading Lists

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “American Liberty in Political Documents Before 1787.”

Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)

The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) wrote widely on matters such as highly technical works on monetary theory as well as journalistic pieces designed for a broader audience. Here is an… more

Many of the works in the Online Library of Liberty have been banned or censored at various times by governments, established churches, and pubic schools for their content. Among these are:

a number of translations of the Bible the… more

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “British Sources of American Constitutionalism.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Freedom, Tolerance, and Truth: Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Pierre Bayle, and the Modern Idea of Natural Law.”

The authors of this series of letters directed them against the ministry of Robert Walpole, who they claimed was a dangerous centralist, using corruption in government, government… more

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund conference on “Liberty and Peace in the Life and Works of Richard Cobden.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty and Responsibility in the Thought of Benjamin Constant.”

Address On Emancipation In the British West Indies… more

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “The Rise of Christianity and Islam in Gibbon’s Decline and Fall.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty and Responsibility in Homer’s Iliad.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Wealth, Commerce, and Corruption in Hume, Smith, and Ferguson.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Essaying Liberty in Hume’s History of England in the Reigns of James I and Charles I.”

By Eric Mack, Professor of Philosophy, Tulane University, New Orleans

This list provides a sampling of contentions and arguments in James Tyrrell’s 1681 critique of the most famous… more

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on a “Debate between Jefferson and Hamilton”.

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty in the Poetry and Prose of John Milton.”

An annotated guide to the major political thinkers from Plato to John Stuart Mill with a brief description of why their work is important and links to the recommended texts, and other readings.

The Author: Quentin Taylor is Professor… more

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Bernard Mandeville: Vice, Virtue, and Liberty.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty and Responsibility in Constitutional Political Economy: The Mill-Macaulay Debate”.

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty, Covenant, and the Old Testament Roots of English Political Thought.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty in the Political Sermons of the American Founding Era.”

These are individual readings from the OLL Reader which we have in stand-alone HTML. They are listed in their order of creation.

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Contrasting Views of Liberty in Hume and Rousseau.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty in Four Plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty and Sovereignty in Four Shakespearean Tragedies.”

This is a collection of socialist tracts and other writings.

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Blood Justice and the Founding of Legal Order in Sophocles and Aeschylus.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Liberty and Tyranny in Tacitus' Annals.”

[Created: January 7, 2018]
[Revised: February 6, 2018]

Note: This is a work in progress. This section currently contains 68 items by 50… more

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Thomas Paine and American Liberty.”

This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Thucydides on Empire, War, Democracy, and Liberty.”