@ Filc
Can you recommend any good non-fiction libertarian books?
Okey Dokey, not the biggest library in the world, but what they hell.
There are non austrian, and even some non libertarian books mixed in. I only have one bookcase, you see.
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There’s a Hoppe booklet amongst them somewhere. It’s “Natural Elites, intellectuals, and the state”.
Not pictured: Against Intellectual Monopoly and The Libertarian Papers. They were surrounded by books you guys probably wouldn’t be interested in. Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, Marx, yadda yadda.
The shelf below:
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And that’s it. If I could afford more lovely stuff, I would. Until I can, I have my most recent purchases, Last Knight of Liberalism, and Man, Economy and State to work through. The latter will take me a while; I’m making use of the study guide and taking my time to ensure I actually learn the ideas in the book instead of merely reading them.
I have about 50 or so liberty-related books that I have read and am trying to get rid of in order to make more room. Anybody in the Louisiana area, please do me a favor. It’s not that I hate them, but the books take up too much space and present too much of a hassle when moving.
Econ student, I live in Kenner a suberb of New Orleans. Where are you located?
I live around the north shore area.
Oh, thank Jesus! Somebody near me! Okay, I emailed both of you guys. If you didn’t receive my private message, please tell me.
I have quite a substantial library of Austrian economics which I am trying to sell:
About 60 books which are either Mises Institute or Liberty Fund, a few dozen rarer, more expensive Austrian books (festschrifsts, from Routledge’s Foundations of Market Economy Series, other university presses, Edward Elgar). Also plenty of books representing other schools and approaches, both fellow travellers and enemies. Economics textbooks from introductory to graduate level.
Send me a message if you want more details.
Grave dig, yes?
Just some recent additions since Christmas:
Democracy: The God that Failed*, Human Action* (w/ study guide), Theory and History
Also got The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark and Contact by Carl Sagan.
So here is my current library:
An Introduction to Economic Reasoning by David Gordon
Man, Economy, and State (with Power and Market), Scholar’s Edition by Murray N. Rothbard
Human Action, Scholar’s Edition by Ludwig von Mises
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig von Mises
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray N. Rothbard
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Tom Woods
Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture by Thom Hartmann
The Structure of Argument by Annette T. Rottenberg
Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking by Merrilee H. Salmon
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School by Gene Callahan
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Theory and History by Ludwig von Mises
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Walden; Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written By Himself by Frederick Douglass
Self-reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan by William M. Fowler, Jr.
The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written By Himself (w/ new introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) by Frederick Douglass
I’ll indulge the gravedig, and post my updated econ/poli.sci. library (what it looked like a year ago is posted around here somewhere),
Wow, an amazing collection, Mr. Catalan. Have you read them all?
I would love to spend six months locked in a room with that bookcase!
I’m still in the process… a very long process.
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Top of my shelf. The very to is just some random general interest. (US history for dummies, how to give presentations, a reprint and translation of an economics text book used in the Soviet Union (first published in the '50), use of logic, black swan, history of philosophy, that kind of things.
Second and third shelf: libertarian supreme. Some Cato publications (‘From mutual aid to the welfare state’, ‘libertarian reader’), some Mises (Hayek, Kirzner, After Liberalism, enterprise of the law), some general (‘Law and Revolution’), some liberty fund (de jouvenel), …
My fourth, fifth and sixth shelf.
Fourth is more of the same: Rand, Kirzner, a whole bunch of Mises, some Rothbard, Anarchy and the law, Thomas Sowell, ‘Norms of Liberty’, etc.
Also interesting: ‘the anarchical society’ (political science).
Final shelf: first part ‘leftovers’ (some marxist stuf), than, starting like the 7th book: everything I’m ‘currently’ sort of reading/working with (mostly for my mastersthesis. it’s not just that, but certainly this): Ostrom, Palmer, Beito, study guides to HA and MES, Vernon Smith, …)
My printed documents: mostly articles from the journal of libertarian studies. Also: Capitalism (Reisman) and a random sociology book, which I thought was interesting so I kept it.
I’m a proud daddy. ^^
I should sort that out, I know.
Wow AdrianHealey, that’s quite the collection; on one of the pictures it looks like your shelf is bowing in! That Soviet textbook sounds interesting. Is there an English translation on the Internet by any chance? I can’t imagine what a social science course in a communist nation would be like.
I’ll have to post my collection some time tomorrow. For fiction, I have an embarassing amount of Stephen King books (he was the first author that really got me into reading), but my nonfiction collection has been bolstered by the F.A. Hayek collection. The unfortunate reality of soul-crushing high school academia has been keeping me from delving to deep into it, however.
Damn Healey, I’m envious. Ditto for Jonathan’s, though I’ve been following his purchases at economicthought.
I’ll post a picture of my collection once the last of my recent orders arrive. I’m waiting on Competition and Currency by Larry White, The Fluttering Veil by Leland Yeager and Choice, Contract, Consent: A Restatement of Liberalism by Anthony de Jasay. I’ve been waiting on the first two for a while now; the USPS seems determined to keep me from reading about free banking.
Here are some autographs from Mises University 
Nice, Jeremiah. I’ve attended two Mises Circles and have gotten every speaker at those events to sign my of The Case Against the Fed.