Readings from the OLL Reader

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

Alexis de Tocqueville, “On Socialism” (1848)

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Auberon Herbert, “Against Force and Socialist Compulsion” (1898)

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Bruce Smith, “True Liberalism vs. Socialism” (1888)

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David A. Wells, “Free Trade” (1882)

David Ames Wells (1828-1898)

"It may, therefore, be fairly claimed that practice and experience, more especially in the case of the United States, have established the practicability and desirability of free trade as an economic…

Eugen Richter, “Economic Chaos after the Socialist Revolution” (1893)

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Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, “The Error in the Marxist System” (1896)

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Frédéric Bastiat, “Individualism and Fraternity” (June 1848)

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Gustave de Molinari, “Protection and Restrictions on Free Trade” (1853)

Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)

"But, whether the premium which increases prices be lasting or temporary, the allurement of that premium is sufficient, and more than sufficient, to multiply prohibitions. What more tempting, in…

Gustave de Molinari, “On Socialism and Property Rights” (1849)

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H.B. Acton, “Marxist Ethics” (1955)

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Herbert Spencer, “From Freedom to Bondage” (1891)

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John Stuart Mill, “The Difficulties of Socialism” (1879)

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Ludwig von Mises, “Socialism, Interventionism, and the Free Market” (1949)

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Ludwig von Mises, “The Impossibility of Economic Calculation under Socialism” (1922)

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No. 11: William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain” (1898)

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"It is militarism…

No. 25: Étienne de la Boétie, “The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude” (1576)

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"I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many…
No. 70: David Hume, “Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth” (1777)

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"As one form of government must be allowed more perfect than another,…
No. 71: Lysander Spooner, “Natural Law; or the Science of Justice” (1882)

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"The science of mine and thine—the science of justice—is the…
No. 72: “Three Agreements of the People” (1647-49)

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"that the only effectual meanes to settle a just and lasting peace, to obtaine remedie…
No. 74: John Millar, “Circumstances which tend to increase the power of the Sovereign” (1771)

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"The tendency of a…

No. 75: William Graham Sumner, “The Forgotten Man and Woman” (1883)

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"(C)upidity,…

Thomas Mackay “The Interest of the Working Class in Free Exchange” (1894)

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Wordsworth Donisthorpe, “An Analysis of Socialism” (1889)

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Yves Guyot, “The Socialist Tyranny” (1893)

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