The "Higuer Law" backround of American Constitutional Law

Having written extensively on various aspects of the American constitutional order, Edward S Corwin is considered a leading constitutional scholar of the twentieth century. Alpheus Mason described Corwin's writings as 'sources of learning and understanding - hallmarks to emulate and revere'. "The Higher Law Background ...

Commerce and government considered in their mutual relationship

This text covers such topics as value, money, agriculture, domestic and foreign trade, war, labor, interest rates, luxuries, and the various government policies that affect these subjects.The theme that unites these disparate subjects is liberty. As Condillac writes near the end of the work ...

Social contract, free ride

a study of the public-goods problem

Access to public goods is free either because it would be too costly to exclude "nonpaying customers" from such access (e.g., pollution control) or because it would be morally repugnant to do so (children's playgrounds). The received wisdom in economics has long been ...

Planning for freedom

let the market system work: a collection of essays and addresses

In this anthology, Mises offers an articulate and accessible introduction to and critique of two topics he considers especially important: inflation and government interventionism. According to Mises, inflation, that is monetary expansion, is destructive; it destroys savings and investment, which are the basis for production ...

The fortunes of liberalism

essays on austrian economics and the ideal of freedom

Ed. Peter G. Klein. In this collection of essays, some of which appear here in English for the first time, F A Hayek traces his intellectual roots to the Austrian School. The book also links the Austrian School to the modern rebirth of classical liberal ...

The Constitution of England

"The Constitution of England" is one of the most distinguished 18th-century treatises on English political liberty. In the vein of Charles Louis "Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws" (1748) and William Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England" (1765-1769), DeLolme's account of the ...

The concise encyclopedia of economics

In this easily accessible, user-friendly volume, respected economist David R Henderson brings together 152 of the most brilliant minds in economics to show how the analysis of economic topics can illuminate many aspects of the average person's daily life. Some of the noted contributors ...

The anti-capitalistic mentality

In "The Anti-capitalistic Mentality", the respected economist Ludwig von Mises plainly explains the causes of the irrational fear and hatred many intellectuals and others feel for capitalism. In five concise chapters, he traces the causation of the misunderstandings and resultant fears that cause resistance to ...

The collected works of Armen A. Alchian

Liberty Fund is proud to present, in two volumes, "The Collected Works of Armen A Alchian", bringing together Alchian's most influential essays, articles, editorials, and lectures to provide a comprehensive record of his thinking on a broad range of topics in economics. As various ...

Economic freedom and interventionism

an anthology of articles and essays

This work serves as both a primer of the fundamental thought of Ludwig von Mises and an anthology of the writings of perhaps the best-known exponent of what is now known as the Austrian School of economics. This volume contains forty-seven articles edited by Mises ...

Human action

a treatise on economics

Mises attributes the tremendous technological progress and the consequent increase in wealth and general welfare in the last two centuries to the introduction of liberal government policies based on free-market economic teachings, creating an economic and political environment which permits individuals to pursue their respective ...

Collected works of John Stuart Mill

Born in London in 1806 into a pedigree of intellect, and educated at the knee of his father, the Scottish philosopher James Mill, John Stuart Mill became one of the 19th century's most influential writers on economics and social philosophy. Liberty Fund is pleased ...

Economics without frontiers

This final volume of 'The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock' series, presents an eclectic mix of essays by Gordon Tullock. The first three sections highlight his pioneering application of rational choice theory to fields outside the usual purview of economics, including criminal behaviour, sociobiology, and ...

Commentary on the Law of prize and booty

The history of "Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty" is complex. When Grotius's personal papers were auctioned in The Hague in 1864, Dutch scholars discovered that his famous "Mare Liberum" was just one chapter in a manuscript of 163 folios, written in ...

The ultimate foundation of economic Science

an essay on method

Written toward the end of Mises's life, his last monograph, "The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science", returned to science, economics as a science based on human action. Mises believed that, since the publication of "Human Action", economists and scientists alike had misinterpreted the idea ...

Nation, State, and economy

contributions to the politics and history of our time

Published less than a year after Austria's defeat in World War I, the book examines and compares pre-war and post-war economic conditions and explicates Mises' theory that each country's prosperity supports rather than undercuts the prosperity of other countries.

The economics and politics of wealth redistribution

Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and ...

Bureaucracy

Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and ...

Liberalism

the classical tradition

This book presents the theoretical and practical arguments for liberalism. The term comes from the Latin word 'liber' (free). Mises defines liberalism as 'the liberal doctrine of the harmony of the rightly understood interests of all members of a free society, founded on the principle ...

Law and economics

This book examines the fundamental principles of our legal system from a public choice perspective and compares its efficiency and accuracy with other systems. It presents in full two controversial works by Gordon Tullock, 'The Logic of the Law' and 'The Case against the Common ...

The virtues of capitalism 1

Economic Affairs, where his publishing program was one of the principal influences on governments all around the world, persuading them to liberaliee their economies. "The Virtues of Capitalism", the inaugural volume in Liberty Funds Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, presents the foundation of Seldons views ...

Index to the works od Adam Smith

The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith represents one of the best available editions of Adam Smith's monumental opus. For over fifteen years, Liberty Fund has made paperback editions of these classics accessible to a wider audience than ever before ...