Reading List
Libertarian Right
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
The actor and Ayn Rand devotee shares his wit and wisdom through a libertarian lens.
Kevin Loesch
Small Government My A**
Kevin Loesch
The author argues that conservatives are virtually as committed to big government as liberals.
David Boez
The Libertarian Mind
David Boez
The classic work on economics, philosophy and politics, recently revised.
Matt Kibbe
Donʼt Hurt People and Donʼt Take Their Stuff
Matt Kibbe
A rational yet passionate stand for liberty and freedcom.
Chase Rachels
White, Right and Libertarian
Chase Rachels
The alternative right reflected in a collection of socio-political essays.
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
A Libertarian take on the crash, with a foreword by Ron Paul.
David Boaz
Libertarianism: A Primer
David Boaz
A comprehensive guidebook to the libertarian perspective
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Democracy – The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
History from absolute monarchies to democracy. The author, while no monarchist, prefers the former.
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
One of the seminal works on right wing libertarianism.
Benjamin R.Tucker
Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One
Benjamin R.Tucker
Important work from this Nineteenth century libertarian who opposed all forms of communism.
Milton Friedman
Nobel Economics prizewinner — but widely read among non-academics
Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman
The only social responsibility of a corporation is to deliver a proft to its shareholders
Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist’s Protest
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman: A Biography
Lanny Ebenstein
A worthy homage to Friedman’s ideas. — The Financial Times
Richard J. Maybury
Whatever Happened to Justice?
Richard J. Maybury
Examines faults in America’s legal and economic system and offers solutions on how to remedy them.
The Money Mystery
Richard J. Maybury
Widely praised work by one of America’s most respected business analysts.
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
Argues that properly governed globalisation can be a force for social good in the world.
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
Radical right philosophy from the noted neo-liberal economist.
P J O’Rourke
Eat The Rich
P J O’Rourke
I wanted to know why some parts of the Earth prosper and others suck
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
Pro-business ideology expressed through her most popular work of fiction.
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
The author argues that civilisation’s future depends on comparatively few creative minds.
F. A. Hayek
One of the most influential gurus for libertarians of the right
The Road to Serfdom
F. A. Hayek
Individualism and Economic Order
F. A. Hayek
The Fatal Conceit
F. A. Hayek
