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
The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society
Eric D. Beinhocker
A thorough and often entertaining explanation of complexity economics, through the prism of a leading advocate of free markets
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off
Michael Caine
The actor and Ayn Rand devotee shares his wit and wisdom through a libertarian lens
Small Government My A**
Kevin Loesch
The author argues that conservatives are virtually as committed to big government as liberals
The Libertarian Mind
David Boez
The classic work on economics, philosophy and politics, recently revised
Donʼt Hurt People and Donʼt Take Their Stuff
Matt Kibbe
A rational yet passionate stand for liberty and freedcom
White, Right and Libertarian
Chase Rachels
The alternative right reflected in a collection of socio-political essays
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
Libertarianism: A Primer
David Boaz
A comprehensive guidebook to the libertarian perspective
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
Pillars of Prosperity
Ron Paul
A collection of Paul’s speeches and writings over the last 30 years, with the emphasis on economics
Anarchy, State and Utopia
Robert Nozick
One of the seminal works on right wing libertarianism
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Law
Frédéric Bastiat
Much admired 19th Century French statesman and essayist advocates free trade and warns of the dangers of socialism
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
Irrepressible Rothbard
Murray Rothbard
Collection of passionately argued essays by U.S. free market iconOn 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
Eat The Rich
P J O’Rourke
I wanted to know why some parts of the Earth prosper and others suck
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
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
The Road to Serfdom
F. A. Hayek
Individualism and Economic Order
F. A. Hayek
The Fatal Conceit
F. A. Hayek
