OLL Editor, The Best of the Online Library of Liberty [2013]
Set contains:
- The Best of the OLL: A Reader on Individual, Economic, and Political Liberty (Aug. 2014)
- BOLL 1: John Locke, “Of Property” (1689)
- BOLL 2: Vicesimus Knox, “Universal Peace” (1793)
- BOLL 3: Ludwig von Mises, “Economics of War” (1949)
- BOLL 4: Ludwig von Mises, “Liberty and Property” (1958)
- BOLL 5: John Stuart Mill, “Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual” (1859)
- BOLL 6: David Hume, “On Government” (1777)
- BOLL 7: Adam Smith, “On Free Trade” (1776)
- BOLL 8: J.B. Say, “Of the Right of Property” (1819)
- BOLL 9: William Blackstone, “Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals” (1766)
- BOLL 10: James M. Buchanan, “The Threat of Leviathan” (1975)
- BOLL 11: W.G. Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain” (1898)
- BOLL 12: F.A. Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society” (1945)
- BOLL 13: Immanuel Kant, “The Principles of Political Right” (1791)
- BOLL 14: Paul Heyne, “Economics Is a Way of Thinking” (1995)
- BOLL 15: Jasay, “Liberalism and Democracy” (1985)
- BOLL 16: Leland Yeager, “The Positive Case for Free Trade” (1954)
- BOLL 17: Milton Friedman, “Capitalism and Freedom” (1961)
- BOLL 18: Friedrich Hayek, “Kinds of Order in Society” (1964)
- BOLL 19: Israel Kirzner, “Entrepreneurial Activity and the General Market Process” (1963)
- BOLL 20: J.B. Say, “Of the Demand or Market for Products” (1819)
- BOLL 21: Jeremy Bentham, “The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number” (1830)
- BOLL 22 The Right to Ignore the State
- BOLL 23: Abbé de Condillac, “On Value and Trade” (1776)
- BOLL 24: Spooner, “Vices are Not Crimes”
- BOLL 25: Estienne de la Boétie, “The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude” (1552)
- BOLL 26: Lao Tzu, “The Tao of Governing” (6thC BC)
- BOLL 27: Kirzner, “Economic Coordination” (1963)
- BOLL 28: Norman Barry, “Hayek’s Theory of Spontaneous Order I: Economic Orders” (1982)
- BOLL 29: Norman Barry, “Hayek’s Theory of Spontaneous Order II: Legal Orders” (1982)
- BOLL 30: Richard Cobden, “On the Total and Immediate Repeal of the Corn Laws” (1846)
- BOLL 31: Samuel anoints Saul the First King of Israel (c. 1,000 B.C.)
- BOLL 32: Richard Overton, “An Arrow against all Tryants and Tyrany” (October, 1646)
- BOLL 33: Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792)
- BOLL 34: James Mill, The State of the Nation (1835)
- BOLL 35: James Madison, “The Utility of the Union As a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection” (1788)
- BOLL 36: Lord Acton, “Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History” (1895)
- BOLL 37: Montesquieu, “Of the Constitution of England” (1748)
- BOLL 38: Daniel Webster, “Speech on the Draft” (1814)
- BOLL 39: Adam Smith, “Of the Character of Virtue” (1759)
- BOLL 40: Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence” (1776)
- BOLL 41: “Magna Carta” (The Great Charter) (1215)
- BOLL 42: Sir Edward Coke, “Petition of Right” (1628)
- BOLL 43: “The Habeas Corpus Act” (1679)
- BOLL 44: “The English Bill of Rights” (1689)
- BOLL 45 [George Mason], “The Virginia Bill of Rights” (June, 1776)
- BOLL 46: David Hume, “The Progress of English Liberty” (1761)
- BOLL 47: Wilhelm von Humboldt, “Of the Individual Man” (1792)
- BOLL 48: J.S. Mill, “Utilitarianism” (1863)
- BOLL 49: “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” (1789)
- BOLL 50: Condorcet and Olympe de Gouges, “The Rights of Women” (1790-91)
- BOLL 51: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “On Liberty” (1810-22)
- BOLL 52: Condorcet, “Tenth Epoch. Future Progress of Mankind” (1794)
- BOLL 53: Gustave de Molinari, “Of the Liberty of Government” (1849)
- BOLL 54: James Harrington, “The Commonwealth of Oceana” (1656)
- BOLL 55: Herbert Spencer, “Political Retrospect and Prospect” (1882)
- BOLL 56: Hugo Grotius, “The Preliminary Discourse Concerning the Certainty of Right” (1625)
- BOLL 57: J.S. Mill, “The Spirit of the Age” (1831)
- BOLL 58: Léon Faucher,“Property I” (1852)
- BOLL 59: Wolowski and Levasseur, “Property II” (1864)
- BOLL 60: Thomas Gordon, “On the Nature of Power” (1721)
- BOLL 61: John Trenchard, “On the Nature of Political Parties” (1721)
- BOLL 62: J. S. Mill, “On Representative Government” (1861)
- BOLL 63: John Milton, “For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing” (1664)
- BOLL 64: James Mill, “Liberty of the Press” (1825)
- BOLL 65: Destutt de Tracy, “Of Society” (1817)
- BOLL 66: Alexis de Tocqueville, “On Socialism” (1848)
- BOLL 67: John Stuart Mill “The Difficulties of Socialism” (1879)
- BOLL 68: Ludwig von Mises, “Economic Calculation under Socialism” (1922)
- BOLL 69: John Thelwall, “Political Songs” (1795)
- BOLL 70: David Hume, “Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth” (1777)
- BOLL 71: Lysander Spooner, “Natural Law; or the Science of Justice” (1882)
- BOLL 72: “Three Agreements of the People” (1647-49)
- BOLL 73: Benjamin Constant, “On Freedom of Thought” (1815)
- BOLL 74: John Millar, “Circumstances which tend to increase the power of the Sovereign” (1771)
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