Hello everyone, I am buying some books today. ^Does anyone have anything to add, subtract, or change about the above list of books? Of course the above list reflects that I am a Rothbard scholar, but I also want to read some other authors, as you can see from those others I included. Here are some works that didn’t make the cut, by the way, simply because I do not want to spend more than about $150ish:
…did you actually check the Mises store? Just a quick glance shows at least 3 titles at equal or lower price.
But if you do end up using Amazon, at least go through GoodShop.com and name the Mises Institute as your chosen cause. (You don’t even have to sign up for an account, although it’s useful if you’d like to keep track of how much money you’ve helped raise.)
Consider it? Do it, bro. It’s no different from just ordering normally, you just click through to Amazon from the Goodshop site. It’s self explanatory…just go to the site and there’s a huge banner that tells you to enter your favorite charity. Just type in “mises”. It’ll take you to the register page so you can create an account, but there’s a link at the top right so you can continue without registering if you want. Then just scroll down to the Amazon logo and click there.
Rothbard is a great thinker (perhaps one of the greatest in the Libertarian tradition), but I think you might benefit from and enjoy your reading to a greater extent if you have a lager variety of authors mixed in. I tend to think comparing similar (but different) opinions allows one the opportunity to connect ideas, evaluate more critically, and basically keep interest in the subjects at hand.
David Friedman, (as already mentioned) Anthony de Jasay, Milton Friedman, Thomas Woods (great for policy debates, whatever they’re worth), and Hans Hermann Hoppe are some good alternatives.
Rothbard is a great thinker (perhaps one of the greatest in the Libertarian tradition), but I think you might benefit from and enjoy your reading to a greater extent if you have a lager variety of authors mixed in.
I agree. What books of his on my list are least imperative, and thus best to replace? (For example, maybe remove FaNL and the biography?) Thanks for the help.
Thanks so much for the help everyone! I decided to vary things a bit, rather than too much of my favourite author. Here were my ultimate choices; I might purchase some more books in a while, and if I do, I shall bump this thread.
Oh, and JJ, I ordered Menger from the Mises Institute on Amazon. So that should be $13 + whatever GoodShop contributes from my purchase. =)
Hmm.. I like the list But.. I’m a big fan of For a New Liberty.
To each his own
If you’re ever interested in works specifically on An-cap, Anarchy and the Law is a great collection of essays (including mutlible by Rothbard himself, if I recall correctly) that has a great variety of authors as well as topics.
Does anybody know why shipping from the Mises store is so expensive. I realise that they have to send the books I order across the Atlantic, but Amazon does it for about €5, whereas the Mises store does it for €45 for a single book. It’s a shame because most of their books aren’t sold first hand anywhere else; but €45 for shipping alone.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that the Mises Institute doesn’t have shipping centers in Europe like Amazon does…which means they actually are shipping across the Atlantic. (You didn’t really think you’d get a personal intercontinental shipment for €5 did you?)
Well I have gotten personal intercontinental shipments for approx. €5 before. Some shipments might havve been as high as €8, but that’s still a hell of alot cheaper than €45.
Can’t remember. I just rembering buying a second hand book on industrial organisation for college for €10 in total. I think the book itself cost just over €6. The book did arrive nearly two weeks late though.
Regarding the Heinlien on your list, Stranger in a Strange Land is a classic, but I’ve always been kind of “meh” on his books. I was, at one point, enamored with Starship Troopers because of the limited voting, but since then I’ve changed my views on that just a tad, it’s fallen out of my favor. Stranger in a Strange Land ends up more in proto-hippie stuff.
A much better read, that will get you thinking, is Neuromancer by William Gibson and the subsequent books in the Sprawl Trilogy. Not an inherently libertarian one, but it’s a good story about people working on the edges of society.
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But.. I’m a big fan of For a New Liberty.