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A System of Moral Philosophy
by Francis Hutcheson
/ Learn MoreA System of Moral Philosophy is the major synthesis of the moral, social, and political thought of Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746). He is one of the most influential figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, and this work is his concerted effort to make his theory of humanity’s innate moral sense compatible with and the foundation of natural jurisprudence that encompasses a system…
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Teacher in America
by Jacques Barzun
/ Learn MoreWith his customary wit and grace, Dr. Barzun contrasts the ritual of education with the lost art of teaching. Twenty-one chapters deal with three major issues: the practice of teaching, the subject matter to be taught, and the institutional and cultural aspects of teaching. Jacques Barzun is a renowned scholar, teacher, and author who lectures widely since his retirement in…
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Temporal and Eternal
by Charles Péguy
/ Learn MoreTemporal and Eternal is a profound and poetic assessment of the relationship between tradition and liberty, between politics and society, and between Christianity and the modern world. This edition includes a new foreword by Pierre Manent, Professor of Political Science at the Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron in Paris. As the twenty-first century begins, the relationships this book explores…
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Theory and History
by Ludwig von Mises
/ Learn MoreTheory and History is primarily a critique of Karl Marx, his materialism, and his prediction of the inevitability of socialism. Marx attributes the creation of tools and machines, as well as the economic structure of society, to undefined “material productive forces.” Mises rejects this materialistic view; he points out that tools and machines are actually created by individuals acting on…
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The Theory of Money and Credit
by Ludwig von Mises
/ Learn MoreThe Theory of Money and Credit integrated monetary theory into the main body of economic analysis for the first time, providing fresh, new insights into the nature of money and its role in the economy and bringing Mises into the front rank of European economists. The Theory of Money and Credit also presented a new monetary theory of the trade…
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by Adam Smith
/ Learn MoreThe Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith’s first and in his own mind most important work, outlines his view of proper conduct and the institutions and sentiments that make men virtuous. Here he develops his doctrine of the impartial spectator, whose hypothetical disinterested judgment we must use to distinguish right from wrong in any given situation. We by nature pursue our…
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Select Works of Edmund Burke: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America
by Edmund Burke
/ Learn MoreThis famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 1, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, contains Burke’s brilliant defense of the American colonists’ complaints of British policy, including “Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770), “Speech…
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To Secure the Blessings of Liberty
by Gouverneur Morris
/ Learn MoreLiberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris’s writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to scholars of American and French history as the volume contains many writings that have never before been published. Morris served as Deputy Superintendent of Finance during the American Revolution, in which capacity he devised the system of decimal coinage.
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Tocqueville’s Voyages
by Christine Dunn Henderson
/ Learn MoreTocqueville’s Voyages is a collection of newly written essays by some of the most well-known Tocquevillian scholars today. The essays in the first part of the volume explore the development of Tocqueville’s thought, his intellectual voyage, during his trip to America and while writing Democracy in America. The second part of the book focuses on the dissemination of Tocqueville’s ideas…
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A Treatise of the Laws of Nature
by Richard Cumberland
/ Learn MoreA Treatise of the Laws of Nature, originally titled De Legibus Naturae, first appeared in 1672 as a theoretical response to a range of issues that came together during the late 1660s. It conveyed a conviction that science might offer a more effective means of demonstrating both the contents and the obligatory force of the law of nature. Jon Parkin…
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A Treatise on Political Economy
by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy
/ Learn MoreA Treatise on Political Economy by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836) is a foundational text of nineteenth-century, free-market economic thought and remains one of the classics of nineteenth-century French economic liberalism. Destutt de Tracy was one of the founders of the classical liberal republican group known as the Idéologues, which included Jean-Baptiste Say, Marquis de Condorcet, and Pierre…
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The Trend of Economic Thinking
by F. A. Hayek
/ Learn MoreIn The Trend of Economic Thinking Hayek presents many of the figures that influenced the development of his economic thought. The articles range from well-known economists such as Mandeville, Hume, Smith, and Bastiat, to lesser-known figures such as Dupuit and Gossen, showing the breadth of Hayek’s study of the history of economic thought. F. A. Hayek (1899–1992), recipient of the…
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