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A Conversation with George W. Carey (DVD)
by George Carey
/ Learn MoreOne of the most influential contributors to American political thought in the last half-century, George W. Carey speaks here about some of his primary and abiding concerns, including: the foundations of political order, the origins and intent of the American republic, and the ultimate crisis of ?derailment? befalling the republic. Author of The Federalist: Design for a Constitutional Republic and…
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A Conversation with Leonard Liggio (DVD)
by Leonard Liggio
/ Learn MoreLeonard Liggio was one of the early leaders of the classical liberalism revival movement and was one of the most ardent defenders of the tenets of personal liberty worldwide. He was Executive Vice President of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Distinguished Senior Scholar of the Institute for Humane Studies, and a research professor at George Mason University. He also served…
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Correspondence and Occasional Writings
by Francis Hutcheson
/ Learn MoreFrancis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was one of the most influential figures in the Scottish Enlightenment. Correspondence and Occasional Writings makes unknown and little-known writings available in a modern edition. It collects his private correspondence for the first time, as well as letters and occasional writings published from journals in England, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Hutcheson’s private correspondence contains many reflections on his own writings,…
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Debt and Taxes
by James M. Buchanan
/ Learn MoreWhile this volume presents the important writings of James M. Buchanan on taxation and debt, Geoffrey Brennan makes it clear in the foreword that the thrust of Buchanan’s work in this area has been to integrate theories of taxation and debt with public-expenditure theory. Therefore, the editors strongly urge that the present volume on taxation and debt be read in…
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Democracy and Liberty
by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
/ Learn More“When democracy turns, as it often does, into a corrupt plutocracy, both national decadence and social revolution are being prepared.” So wrote the Irish-born historian W. E. H. Lecky (1838–1903) in this devastating assault on mass democracy.
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Democracy, Liberty, and Property
by Merrill D. Peterson
/ Learn MoreIn one volume, Democracy, Liberty, and 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. Emphasizing the connection between federalism and liberty, the debates that took place at these conventions show…
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The Divine Feudal Law: Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented
by Samuel Pufendorf
/ Learn MoreThe Divine Feudal Law sets forth Pufendorf’s basis for the reunion of the Lutheran and Calvinist confessions. This attempt to seek a “conciliation” between the confessions complements the concept of toleration discussed in Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society. Samuel Pufendorf (1632–1694) taught natural law and was court historian in both Germany and Sweden.
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Economic Sense and Nonsense
by Anthony de Jasay
/ Learn MoreEconomic Sense and Nonsense comprises a collection of sixty essays written by Anthony de Jasay for his monthly column “Reflections from Europe,” on Liberty Fund’s Library of Economics and Liberty website. The articles span the years 2008 to 2012 and focus on economic issues of topical concern in Europe. In this collection Jasay continues his explorations of a number of…
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Economics and the Public Welfare
by Benjamin M. Anderson
/ Learn MoreIn the turbulent years between passage of the Federal Reserve Act (1913) and the Bretton Woods Agreement (1945), the peoples of the Western world suffered two world wars, two major and several minor international financial panics, an epidemic of currency devaluations and debt repudiations, civil wars, and revolutions. No period in history could serve better as a case study for…
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The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman
by Caroline Robbins
/ Learn MoreIn this volume, Caroline Robbins adeptly presents a history of the Commonwealthmen, “a gifted and active minority of the population of the British Isles, who kept alive, during an age of extraordinary complacency and legislative inactivity, a demand for increased liberty of conscience.” Caroline Robbins (1903–1999) taught history at Bryn Mawr College from 1929 to 1971 and was chairman of…
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Elements of Criticism
by Henry Home, Lord Kames
/ Learn MoreElements of Criticism is Kames’s most influential work. When it first appeared, in 1762, it was the most comprehensive philosophical work on “criticism” in English, and it was published in five editions during Kames’s lifetime and another forty editions over the next century. In America, Elements of Criticism served as a standard text for college students of English. Liberty Fund’s…
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The Elements of Moral Philosophy, with A Brief Account of the Nature, Progress, and Origin of Philosophy
by David Fordyce
/ Learn MoreThough little known today, David Fordyce was an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and closely associated with liberal Dissenters in England. His Elements of Moral Philosophy was a notable contribution to the curriculum in moral philosophy and one of the most widely circulated texts in moral philosophy in the second half of the eighteenth century. Thomas D. Kennedy is…
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