The Best of the OLL No. 66: Alexis de Tocqueville, “On Socialism” (1848) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2015).

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. A thematic list with links to HTML versions of the texts is available here. This extract comes from a speech Tocqueville gave in the Constituent Assembly in September 1848 to protest plans to continue the failed government funded make work project known as the National Workshops.

Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises, vol. 3: The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction, edited and with an Introduction by Richard M. Ebeling (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000).

Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises, vol. 2: Between the Two World Wars: Monetary Disorder, Interventionism, Socialism, and the Great Depression, edited and with an Introduction by Richard M. Ebeling (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002).

A three volume collection of Mises writings from the so-called “lost papers” which were found in a Moscow archive in 1996. There were seized by the Gestapo originally and then taken back to Russia after the war by the Russian government. Vol. 1 deals with “Monetary and Economic Problems Before, During, and After the Great War”; vol. 2 with “Between the Two World Wars: Monetary Disorder, Interventionism, Socialism, and the Great Depression”; and vol. 3 with “The Political Economy of International reform and Reconstruction.” They have been edited by Richard M. Ebeling.

Liberty Matters: Richard Cobden: Ideas and Strategies in Organizing the Free-Trade Movement in Britain (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2015).

This online discussion is part of the series “Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Matters pertaining to Liberty.” Here we examine the career of Richard Cobden and in particular the way that he pioneered forms of advocacy and organization in the Anti-Corn Law League in the late 1830s and early 1840s that were highly effective in his own time, had long-lasting effects, and are still relevant today. The Lead Essay has been written by Steve Davies who is education director at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. The commentators are Gordon Bannerman who is a freelance writer and researcher, Professor Anthony Howe who is professor of modern history at the University of East Anglia, and Sarah Richardson who is associate professor of history at the University of Warwick. The discussion is accompanied by an illustrated essay on the iconography of the free trade movement in the collection of “Images of Liberty”: Cobden and the Anti-Corn Law League.

The Works of Benjamin Franklin, including the Private as well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence, together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, compiled and edited by John Bigelow (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). The Federal Edition in 12 volumes. Vol. XII (Letters and Misc. Writings 1788-1790, Supplement, Indexes).

The Works of Benjamin Franklin, including the Private as well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence, together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, compiled and edited by John Bigelow (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). The Federal Edition in 12 volumes. Vol. XI (Letters and Misc. Writings 1784-1788).

The Works of Benjamin Franklin, including the Private as well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence, together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, compiled and edited by John Bigelow (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). The Federal Edition in 12 volumes. Vol. X (Letters and Misc. Writings 1782-1784).