Your favorite Liberty oriented books

[Jain_Daugh]

2 of my favorites are -

How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World - Harry Browne

The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Moog

Jain

[jtucker]

Let me add that Our Enemy the State by Nock is an amazing treasure, as his his Memoirs of a Superflous Man. Memoirs should be read with patience. It has a different pacing than the usual policy book. But the impact is huge. It is an adult book and not really suitable for teens, for example. But for anyone in college or later, it is highly recommended.

Both books are available in PDF or through the store.

I’m hoping that we can do a special edition of Our Enemy the State next year. Hardback etc.

[liberty_student]

Ok, this is my list so far from the master list further back in the thread.

How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty - Harry Browne

Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt

Defending the Undefendable - Walter Block

Our Enemy, the State - AJ Nock

The Revolution: A Manifesto - Ron Paul

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Any others? It has to be in print, fairly common (for the liberty movement) and good for newbies.

Thanks in advance.

[hayekianxyz]

I’d suggest Callahan’s book to replace Hazlitt’s.

And Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty is essential.

[liberty_student]

I’m not very familiar with either. Any particular reason? And is Callahan’s in print and more widely read?

[hayekianxyz]

Callahan’s book goes more in depth in regards to Austrian Theory whereas Hazlitt merely goes through various policies and shows the economic fallacies. In addition to this Callahan’s book is easier to read than Hazlitt’s and starts from the beginning.

I think Economics in One Lesson is useful and is a good read but if you’re introducing people to Austrian Economics it makes more sense to start from the beginning.

As for you’re last question I’m not sure, although I’d guess that Hazlitt’s is more popular, but as I said that’s just a guess.

And as I said in the other post I think Rothard’s The Ethics of Liberty is missing from that list.

[liberty_student]

Without giving it all away, I need books that enough people have read, so that I can solicit a good number of short reviews.

There are probably all sorts of amazing books offered in this thread, but if they aren’t (1) in print and (2) widely read, they aren’t useful for phase 1 of this project.

I’ll investigate Callahan’s book tomorrrow. Thanks. If it doesn’t make phase 1, it can make phase 2.

[Jon_Irenicus]

Callahan’s book is a must. It’s free online too.

-Jon

[Paul]

Just rehashing the list above…but with links(!):

• Human Action, Liberalism, Socialism, The Theory of Money and Credit, and Omnipotent Government (Mises)

• Man, Economy, and State, For a New Liberty, What Has Government Done to Our Money?, The Ethics of Liberty, and Power and Market (Rothbard)

• Democracy: The God that Failed, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, and A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (Hoppe)

• The Market for Liberty (Morris and Linda Tannehill)

• The Virtue of Selfishness, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, and Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)

• The Machinery of Freedom (David Friedman)

• Prices and Production, Individualism and Economic Order, The Road to Serfdom and The Constitution of Liberty (Hayek)

• Reason and Value (R. Long)

• Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics (F. Miller)

• The Libertarian Idea (Jan Narveson)

• The Elements of Justice (David Schmidtz)

• Principles of Economics (Menger)

• Economics for Real People (Callahan)

• Rational Man and For an Ontology of Morals (H. B. Veatch)

• Defending the Undefendable (Walter Block)

• Our Enemy, the State and Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (Albert J. Nock)

• Economics in One Lesson (Henry Hazlitt)

• Notes on Democracy (H. L. Mencken)

• The Man Versus the State (Herbert Spencer)

• The Forgotten Man (W. G. Sumner)

• The State (Franz Oppenheimer)

• The Libertarian Reader (David Boaz)

• Radicals for Capitalism (Brian Doherty)

• Fugitive Essays and The Rise and Fall of Society (Frank Chodorov)

• Rights of Man (Paine)

• Two Treatises of Government (Locke)

• Anarchy and the Law (Edward Stringham)

• An Introduction to Economic Reasoning (David Gordon)

• Union and Liberty (John C. Calhoun)

• The Philosophy of Ownership (Robert LeFevre)

• The Discovery of Freedom (Rose Wilder Lane)

• How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (Browne)

• The Sovereign Individual (Davidson/Rees-Mogg)

• The Revolution: A Manifesto (Ron Paul)