A 4 volume set of Machiavelli’s writings.

Godwin’s best known work of political theory. Written in the early years of the French Revolution before the Terror had begun, Godwin provides a devastating critique of unjust government institutions and optimistically proposes that individuals not the state can best provide for their needs. He believed that political change could best be brought about gradually and as a result of free discussion in small communities. This work has inspired many generations of radical thinkers.

James Mill’s History is a work of Benthamite “philosophical history” from which the reader is supposed to draw lessons about human nature, reason and religion, and the deleterious impact of commercial monopolies like the East India Company.

The 1916 Oxford University Press edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems.

A two volume collection of the political writings of Richard Cobden which focuses on foreign policy, and war and peace.

Hume’s great History of England the theme of which is liberty, above all English constitutional development from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Revolution of 1688. This Liberty Fund edition is based on the edition of 1778, the last to contain corrections by Hume. 6 vols.

The 12 volume Fireside edition of the works of Emerson.

This eleven-volume set of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo contains all of Ricardo’s published and unpublished writings, and provides great insight into the early era of political economics by chronicling Ricardo’s significant contributions to modern economics. The edition has been widely acclaimed as the best example, prior to the Glasgow edition of Adam Smith’s writings, of scholarly editing applied to the work of an economist. It contains a general index and includes four volumes dedicated to his personal correspondence with such economic luminaries as Malthus, Jean-Baptiste Say, and James Mill, the father of John Stuart Mill. Complete sets of the edition have not been available for many years. This publication is an affordable paperback version of the hardcover edition prepared under the auspices of the Royal Economic Society by Piero Sraffa and printed by Cambridge University Press in 1951–1973. The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, ed. Piero Sraffa with the Collaboration of M.H. Dobb (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005), 11 vols. The entire series includes: Volume 1: On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation Volume 2: Notes on Malthus’s Principles of Political Economy Volume 3: Pamphlets and Papers 1809-1811 Volume 4: Pamphlets and Papers 1815-1823 Volume 5: Speeches and Evidence Volume 6: Letters 1810-1815 Volume 7: Letters 1816-1818 Volume 8: Letters 1819-1821 Volume 9: Letters 1821-1823 Volume 10: Biographical Miscellany Volume 11: General Index

A 2 volume collection of Petty’s writings, along with a lengthy introduction on Petty’s life and times and economic thought.

This 14 volume set contains works by Augustine and Chrysostom.