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Friday, November 28, 2014

Free libertarian ebooks

I love to read.

This was the mortal equivalent of Heaven to me at the 2014 ISFLC.

I also believe in the voluntary exchange of information, especially if it's free. I have compiled this list of free ebooks to help people (like you!) be more easily able to access the knowledge of the universe - aka libertarian. You are very capable of Googling all of this (pretty much like what I did), but I know that most of you were probably too lazy to do so, so you're welcome.

This will be constantly updated, and I know that there are doubles. Feel free to comment with links to more free books.

While a lot of these books, organizations, and authors I don't doubt are reasonable, there are a few I even questioned putting on here. Just remember to intake information with a grain of salt. If the author is a bad person, it does not necessarily make his/her work illegitimate, and vice-versa.

Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Economic Sophisms by Frederic Bastiat

The Law by Frederic Bastiat

The Mainspring of Human Progress by Henry Grady Weaver

Marxism Unmasked by Ludwig von Mises

Leviathan at War - Freeman Essay Collection

Cato Institute

A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State by David Kelley

A New Deal for Social Security by Peter J. Ferrara and Michael D. Tanner

A Search for Enemies: America's Alliances After the Cold War by Ted Galen Carpenter

After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century by Timothy Lynch

America Entangled: The Persian Gulf Crisis and Its Consequences edited by Ted Galen Carpenter

An American Vision: Policies of the '90s by Edward H. Crane and David Boaz

 Antitrust Policy: The Case for Repeal by Dominick T. Armentano

Apocalypse Not: Economics, Science and Environmentalism by Ben Bolch and Harold Lyons

Assessing the Reagan Years edited by David Boaz

Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility, and the Constitution by Richard E. Wagner and Robert D. Tollison

Best of Byline 1986 by the Cato Institute

Beyond Liberal and Conservative: Reassessing the Political Spectrum by William S. Maddox and Stuart A. Lilie

Beyond NATO: Staying Out of Europe's Wars by Ted Galen Carpenter

Beyond the Status Quo: Policy Proposals for America edited by Edward H. Crane and David Boaz

China in the New Millenium: Market Reforms and Social Development by James A. Dorn

Clearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution by Indur M. Goklany

Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming by Thomas Gale Moore

Collective Defense or Strategic Independence: Alternative Strategies for the Future edited by Ted Galen Carpenter

Common Cents, Common Dreams: A Layman's Guide to Social Security Privatization by Peter J. Ferrara and Michael D. Tanner

Competing Visions: The Political Conflict Over America's Economic Future by Richard B. McKenzie

Competition and Finance: A Reinterpretation of Financial and Monetary Economics by Kevin Dowd

Defining Defense: The 1985 Military Budget by Earl C. Ravenal

Delusions of Grandeur: The United Nations and Global Intervention edited by Ted Galen Carpenter

Designing Defense for a New World Order: The Military Budget in 1992 and Beyond by Earl C. Ravenal

Destroying Democracy: How Government Funds Partisan Politics by James T. Bennett and Thomas J. Dilorenzo

Dollars, Deficits, and Trade edited by James A. Dorn and William A. Niskanen

Economic Reform in China: Problems and Prospect edited by James A. Dorn and Wang Xi

Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe by Charles R. Glenn

Energy: Ending the Never-Ending Crisis by Paul Ballonoff

Exiting the Balkan Thicket by Gary T. Dempsey

Failure & Progress: The Bright Side of the Dismal Science by Richard B. Mckenzie

Flag-Burning, Discrimination, and the Right to Do Wrong: Two Debates by Roger Pilon

Forfeiting Our Property Rights: Is Your Property Safe From Seizure by Rep. Henry J. Hyde

Free the Mail: Ending the Postal Monopoly edited by Peter. J. Ferrara

Freedom to Trade: Refuting the New Protectionism by Edward L. Hudgins

Generosity: Virtue in Society by Tibor R. Machan

Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism by Ian Vasquez

Grassroots Tyranny: The Limits of Federalism by Clint Bolick

Haunted Housing: How Toxic Scare Stories are Spooking the Public Out of House and Home by Cassanddra Chrones Moore

Immigration: The Demographic and Economic Facts by Julian L. Simon

Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams by Steve J. Milloy

Left, Right, Babyboom: America's New Politics edited by David Boaz

Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City by David Boaz

Making America Poorer: The Cost of Labor Laws by Morgan O. Reynolds

Market Liberalism: A Paradigm to the 21st Century by Morgan O. Reynolds

Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy by Paul Craig Roberts and Karen Lafollette

National Economic Planning: What is Left? by Don Lavoie

NATO at 40: Confronting a Changing World edited by Edward H. Crane and David Boaz

NATO Enlargement: Illusions and Reality edited by Ted Galen Carpenter

NATO's Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the Balkan War edited by Ted Galen Carpenter and Barbara Conry

Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis by John C. Goodman and Gerald L. Musgrave

Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis (Abridged) by John C. Goodman and Gerald L. Musgrave

Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World edited by Doug Bandow and Ian Vasquez

Plant Closings: Public or Private Choices edited by Richard B. Mckenzie

Pocket Constitution (Arabic/Bilingual Version) by Roger Pilon

Pocket Constitution (Spanish/Bilingual Version) by Roger Pilon

Porkbarrel: The Unexpurgated Grace Commission  Story of Congressional Profligacy by Randall Fitzgerald and Gerald Lipson

Quagmire: America in the Middle East by Leon D. Hadar

Regulators' Revenge: The Future of Telecommunications Deregulation by Tom W. Bell and Solveig Singleton

Renaissance: The Rebirth of Liberty in the Heart of Europe by Vaclav Klaus

Rent Control: The Perennial Folly (Cato Public Policy Research Monograph No. 2) by Charles W. Baird

Scalia vs. Epstein: Two Views on Judicial Activism by Antonin Scalia and Richard Epstein

School Choice: Why You Need It & How You Get It by David Harmer

Science Without Sense: The Risky Business of Public Health Research by Stephen J. Milloy

Silencing Science by Stephen J. Milloy and Michael Gough

Social Security: Averting the Crisis by Peter J. Ferrara

Social Security: Prospects for Real Reform by Peter J. Ferrara

Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction by Peter J. Ferrara

Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming by Patrick J. Michaels

Telecommunications in Crisis: The First Amendment, Technology, and Deregulation by Edwin Diamond, Norman Sandler, and Milton Mueller

Telecompetition: The Free Market Road to the Information Highway by Lawrence D. Gasman

The Affirmative Action Fraud: Can We Restore the American Civil Rights Vision? by Clint Bolick

The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment by Ted Galen Carpenter

The Case for Gold by Rep. Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman

The Crisis in Drug Prohibition by David Boaz

The End of Welfare: Fighting Poverty in Civil Society by Michael D. Tanner

The Financial Sevices Revolution: Policy Directions for the Future edited by Catherine England and Thomas Huertas

The Future of Money in the Information Age edited by James A. Dorn

The Government Factor: Undermining Journalistic Ethics in the Information Age by Richard D. Kaplar and Patrick D. Maines

The High Cost of Farm Welfare by Clifton Luttrell

The Last Monopoly: Privatizing the Postal Service for the Information Age by Edward L. Hudgins

The New Right v. The Constitution by Stephen Macedo

The Peasant Betrayed: Agriculture and Land Reform in the Third World by John B. Powelson and Richard Stock

The Politics and Laws of Term Limits by Edward H. Crane and Roger Pilon

The Revolution in Development Economics by James A. Dorn, Steve H. Hanke, and Alan Walters

The Rule of Experts: Occupational Licensing in America by S. David Young

The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton by Roger Pilon

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air About Global Warming by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr.

Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered by Wilfred Beckerman

Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World by Doug Bandow

Underground Government: the Off Budget Public Sector by James T. Bennett and Thomas J. Dilorenzo

Water Markets: Priming the Invisible Pump by Terry L. Anderson and Pamela Snyder

What Has Government Done to Our Healthcare? by Terree B. Wasley

Why Schools Fail by Bruce Goldberg

Zoning, Rent Control and Affordable Housing by William Tucker

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus

FIRE's Guide to Due Process and Fair Procedure on Campus by Harvey Silvergate and Josh Gewolb

FIRE's Guide to Student Fees, Funding, and Legal Equality on Campus by Jordan Lorence

FIRE's Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus by David French

FIRE's Guide to First-Year Orientation and Thought Reform on Campus by Jordan Lorence and Harvey Silvergate

Young Americans for Liberty (YAL)

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand

Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

The Law by Frederic Bastiat

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Free to Choose by Milton Friedman

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Libertarian Book Club

Healing Our World by Dr. Mary J. Ruwart

Local Problems, Libertarian Solutions by William D. Burt

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard

The Law by Frederic Bastiat

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

1984 by George Orwell

Libertarian Essays by Daniel B. Klein

Intellectual Life, Civil Libertarian Issues, and the Student Movement at the University of California by Carl E. ive Schorske

The Revolutionary Movement in Spain by Helmut Rudiger

Students For Liberty (SFL) Handbooks

Leading Liberty: A Comprehensive Guide to Liberating Your Campus

Example Executive Board Handbook

College Students: The Future & The Present

Students For Liberty (SFL) Book Publications

The Economics of Freedom: What Your Professors Won't Tell You

The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won't Tell You edited by Tom G. Palmer

After the Welfare State edited by Tom G. Palmer

Why Liberty by Tom G. Palmer

Peace, Love, & Liberty edited by Tom G. Palmer

Mises Institute

America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard

Education: Free and Compulsory by Murray N. Rothbard

Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation by Robert L. Sheuttinger and Eamonn F. Butler

Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition by Ludwig von Mises

Toward a Libertarian Society by Walter Block

On Equality and Inequality (Hebrew Translation) bu Ludwig von Mises

Economics and Public Welfare by Benjamin Anderson

Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science by Lionel Robbins

Castles in the Air by Leonard E. Read

The Great Depression by Lionel Robbins

Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises

The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard

Deflation and Liberty by Jorg Guido Hulsmann

Study Guide to Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Robert P. Murphy

Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property by Butler Shaffer

What Must Be Done by Hans Hermann Hope

Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock

Fascism versus Capitalism by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution by Ludwig von Mises

Lessons for the Young Economist by Robert P. Murphy

Economic Principles by Frank A. Fetter

Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom by John V. Denson

Essentials of Economic Theory by John Bates Clark

An Outline of International Price Theory by Chi-Yuen Wu

Outlook for Freedom by Leonard E. Read

Where Lies this Fault? by Leonard E. Read

Instead of Violence by Leonard E. Read

On Doing the Right Thing by Albert Jay Nock

Two Essay by Ludwig von Mises (Middle of the Road Leads to Socialsm; Liberty and Property) by...do I really need to say it?

Prices and Production by Friedrich A. Hayek

Complete Libertarian Forum (1969-1984) by Murray N. Rothbard

Individualism and Economic Order by Friedrich A. Hayek

Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow by Ludwig von Mises

The Economics of Liberty by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard

Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A. by Rose Martin

Theory of Money and Fiduciary Media by Jorg Guido Hulsmann

Pursue the Cause of Liberty: A Farewell to Congress by Ron Paul

Give Me Liberty by Rose Wilder Lane

Accent on the Right by Leonard E. Read

Awake for Freedom's Sake by Leonard E. Read

Comes the Dawn by Leonard E. Read

Deeper than You Think by Leonard E. Read

Having My Way by Leonard E. Read

Let Freedom Reign by Leonard E. Read

How Do We Know? by Leonard E. Read

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray N. Rothbard

1 comment:

  1. have this page bookmarked.. few years reading here for me to do, thanks for sharing! :)

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