The French Liberal School - A Materials List

The following sources are a list of both audio lectures and written sources concerning the history of the French Liberal school. If there is something I missed or you wish to add, please feel free.

Written Sources:

Jean-Baptiste Say - A Treatise on Political Economy*, Letters to Mr. Malthus*

Gustave de Molinari - The Production of Security, The Society of Tomorrow

Destutte de Tracy - A Treatise on Political Economy

Francois Guizot - General History of Civilization in Europe, The History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe

Yves Guyot - Socialistic Fallacies, The Tyranny of Socialism, Where and Why Public Ownership has Failed

Germaine de Stael - Considerations on the Principle Events of the French Revolution

Benjamin Constant - Political Writings

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America, Old Regime and the French Revolution

Frederic Bastiat - Collected Works Volume I, Collected Works Volume II

Marquis de Condorcet - Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind

Turgot - Reflections on the Formulation and Distribution of Riches

Cantillon - An Essay on the Nature of Trade

Augustin Thierry - The Formulation and Progress of Tiers Etat Volume I, The Formulation and Progress of Tiers Etat Volume II

Leonard Liggio - ‘Charles Dunoyer and French Classical Liberalism’

Joseph Salerno - ‘Comment on the French Liberal School’, ‘The Neglect of the French Liberal School in Anglo-American Economics’,

Mark Thorton - ‘War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900’

Ralph Raico - ‘Classical Liberal Roots of the Marxist Doctrine of Classes’

Hayek - Constitution of Liberty

Audio Sources:

Joseph Salerno - ‘Forerunners of the Austrian School: The French Liberal School’

Frederic Bastiat - ‘Should the State Support the Arts?’, ‘Private and Public Services’, ‘The Law’, ‘That Which is Seen and That Which is not Seen’, ‘The Candlemaker’s Petition’

Ralph Raico - ‘Classical-Liberal Roots of Marxist Class Analysis’, ‘Classical Liberal Historians’

F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, Chapter Four: Freedom, Reason, and Tradition

Updated Totally forgot Hayek, thanks for the reminder

David Hart- Comte and Dunoyer’s class analysis

This is a really good list, Andrew.

http://rothbard.be/bestanden/varia/Hayek-Constitution.pdf

PDF of constitution of liberty.

Got that but thanks for the consideration.

Awesome list.

Thanks a lot for putting up these links in one place Andrew. Unfortunately the liberty fund pdf links seem to be broken though[:(].

A sad reminder of what France was capable of and how low it has sunken.

Thanks for it.

Guyot will make you lawl often when reading him. His wit, tone and attitude are most amusing.

Oh thanks for bringing that up. I’ll test them and relink where necessary.

P.S. Ok, the Libertyfund updated their site so the url was a number off. Fixed the links.

[Y] Awesome mate.