Reading List
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose — because it contains all the others — the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money’. Ayn Rand
Michael Caine
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off
Michael Caine
Kevin Loesch
Small Government My A**
Kevin Loesch
David Boez
The Libertarian Mind
David Boez
Matt Kibbe
Donʼt Hurt People and Donʼt Take Their Stuff
Matt Kibbe
Chase Rachels
White, Right and Libertarian
Chase Rachels
Thomas E. Woods
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse
Thomas E. Woods
David Boaz
Libertarianism: A Primer
David Boaz
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Democracy – The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Ron Paul
Pillars of Prosperity
Ron Paul
A collection of Paul’s speeches and writings over the last 30 years, with the emphasis on economics.
Robert Nozick
Anarchy, State and Utopia
Robert Nozick
Benjamin R.Tucker
Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One
Benjamin R.Tucker
Milton Friedman
Nobel Economics prizewinner — but widely read among non-academics
Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman
Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist’s Protest
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman: A Biography
Lanny Ebenstein
Richard J. Maybury
Whatever Happened to Justice?
Richard J. Maybury
The Money Mystery
Richard J. Maybury
Jonah Goldberg
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Jonah Goldberg
A thought-provoking thesis that asserts liberalism’s connections with fascism in both the past and present.
Jagdish Bhagwati
In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword
Jagdish Bhagwati
Thomas L. Friedman
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
Well written unfettered enthusiasm for unfettered market forces; especially of interest to IT professionals.
Ludwig Von Mises
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
Ludwig Von Mises
Von Mises, who has championed the free market probably more deeply than any other thinker, argues that people whose ambitions haven’t been fulfilled blame the System.
Frédéric Bastiat
The Law
Frédéric Bastiat
Much admired 19th Century French statesman and essayist advocates free trade and warns of the dangers of socialism.
Henry Hazlitt
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
Former Newsweek columnist and favourite of the US Libertarian Party sets out the case for unfettered market forces as the means of achieving social and economic progress.
Murray Rothbard
Irrepressible Rothbard
Murray Rothbard
Collection of passionately argued essays by U.S. free market icon
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.
The Ethics of Liberty
Murray Rothbard
P J O’Rourke
Eat The Rich
P J O’Rourke
Ayn Rand
… whose works of non-fiction, and novels like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, voiced her fierce hatred of social safety nets and the governments that provide them.
Capitalism — the Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness
Ayn Rand
For Ayn Rand, ‘selfishness’ means concern for one’s own interests;
for dictionaries, it’s the excessive or exclusive regard for self, and a disregard for others.
for dictionaries, it’s the excessive or exclusive regard for self, and a disregard for others.
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
F. A. Hayek
One of the most influential gurus for libertarians of the right