Democracy, liberty, and property

the State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s

In one volume, "Democracy, Liberty & Property" provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s. With topics as relevant today as they were then, this collection of essential primary sources sheds light on many of the enduring issues of liberty. Emphasising ...

A letter concerning toleration and other writings

Edited and with an introduction by Mark Goldie. This volume brings together the principal writings on religious toleration and freedom of expression by one of the greatest philosophers in the Anglophone tradition. It contains not only Locke's canonical "Letter Concerning Toleration" (1689), but also ...

A Maverick's defense of freedom

Edited and with an introduction by Dwight R. Lee. Benjamin A Rogge's ability to speak and write about serious economic topics with humour, humility, and wit, but without difficult jargon, math, or diagrams, places him in a category all his own. This new collection ...

The enforcement of morals

The limits of individual freedom within society - the boundaries of the public and the private in the realm of morals, and the point at which the law may enter - are the core concern of these seven essays by prominent British jurist Lord Patrick Devlin.

The origin and principles of the American Revolution compared with the origin and principles of the French Revolution

Translated by John Quincy Adams; With an introduction by Peter Koslowski. "The Origin & Principles of the American Revolution" is perhaps one of the most important books written on the American Revolution by a European author. It is an original study of the subject by a ...

A concise history of the Common Law

As always during its long history, English common law, upon which American law is based, has had to defend itself against the challenge of civil law's clarity and traditions. That challenge to our common law heritage remains today. To that end, Liberty Fund now ...

Contra Keynes and Cambridge

essays, correspondence

Contra Keynes and Cambridge is composed of three parts: Part I consists of two essays, the first being a recollection by Hayek of his time at the London School of Economics in the 1930s, followed by his contribution to an early debate about the paradox ...

Political economy, concisely

essays on policy that does not work and markets that do

Written for the general reader and specialist alike, the essays collected here articulate a convincing classical liberal view of the world, with a no-nonsense approach to modern economic theory. Many of the articles are collected here for the first time in book form. Jasay's ...

Hayek on Hayek

an autobiographical dialogue

This book gives readers insight into F A Hayek's life and ideas. The detailed chronology depicts Hayek's early life and education, his intellectual progress, and the academic and public reception of his ideas through a series of oral history interviews. Hayek's own ...

"Are economist basically immoral?"

and other essays on economics, ethics, and religion by Paul Heyne

Eds. Geoffrey Brennan, A.M.C. Waterman. A well-trained theologian, a gifted and dedicated teacher of economics for over forty years, and the author of a highly regarded and widely used textbook, "The Economic Way of Thinking", Paul Heyne influenced generations of students of economics ...

Good money. T.I

The New World

Ed. Stephen Kresge. Hayek's deep interest in the concept of money and its role within the economy is developed in "Good Money, Part I". Consisting of seven of Hayek's most significant monetary writings from the 1920s, this collection focuses on his critique of ...

Good money.T.II

The standard

Ed. Stephen Kresge. This complementary volume provides five additional essays to expand our understanding of Hayek's ideas about money and monetary policy. "Good Money, Part II: The Standard" investigates the consequences of the predicament of composition which led to one of Hayek's most ...

Two books of the elements of universal jurispredence

Edited and with an introduction by Thomas Behme; General editor Knud Haakonssen. "Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence" was Pufendorf's first work, published in 1660. Its appearance effectively inaugurated the modern natural-law movement in the German-speaking world. The work also established Pufendorf ...

Socialism and war

essays, documents, reviews

Ed. Burce Caldwell. In the essays in this volume Hayek contributed to economic knowledge in the context of socialism and war, while providing an intellectual defence of a free society. The connection between the two topics is illuminated through essays containing some of Hayek's ...

The trend of economic thinking

essays on political economists and econommic history

Eds. W.W. Bartley III, Stephen Kresge. In this book, Hayek presents many of the figures that influenced the development of his economic thought. The articles range from well-known economists such as Mandeville, Hume, Smith, and Bastiat, to lesser-known figures such as Dupuit and Gossen ...

The anti-federalist writings of the Melancton Smith Circle

Eds. Michael P. Zuckert, Derek A. Webb. This volume makes available for the first time a one-volume collection of Anti-Federalist writings that are commensurate in scope, significance, political brilliance, and depth with those in "The Federalist".

Democracy in America

Historical-Critical Edition of De la démocratie en Amérique

Ed. Eduardo Nolla; Trans. James T. Schleifer. Bilingual edition. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visited the United States on behalf of the French government to study American prisons. In their nine months in the U.S. they studied not ...

Observations on "The two sons of oil"

William Findley was an important, if lesser-known, politician during the early national period of American history. He was a captain in the Revolutionary army, an Anti-Federalist, and a forty-year veteran politician of both state and national office. In the Pennsylvania ratifying convention he had vigorously ...

The Pacificus-Helvidius debates of 1793-1794

toward the completion of the american founding

The Pacificus- Helvidius debates of 1793-1794 are among the most significant in American history, virtually equal in importance with the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. In these debates, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (Pacificus and Helvidius, respectively) conflict on the extent of the foreign policy powers ...

Collected works of James Wilson

This two-volume set brings together a collection of writings and speeches of James Wilson. Wilson was one of only six signers of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and his writings and speeches had a significant impact on the deliberations that ...

Constitutionalism

ancient and modern

This book explores the very roots of liberty by examining the development of modern constitutionalism from its ancient and medieval origins. Derived from a series of lectures delivered by Charles Howard McIlwain at Cornell University in the 1938-39 academic year, these lectures provide a useful ...

Lectures on the relation between Law and public opinion in England during the ninteenth century

This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during the nineteenth century and its impact on legislation. It is an accessible attempt by an Edwardian liberal to make ...