The Enhanced Edition of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government (1689, 1764) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2014).

This is a collection of classic works on liberty from the Online Library of Liberty collection which have been “enhanced” to assist readers is learning more about these important works. The enhancements include, in addition to the text, supplementary material such as essays, chronologies, study guides, and “Liberty Matters” online discussion forums on the author. Some editions are bi-lingual editions which include the text in its original language and an English translation.

The Enhanced Edition of The Rights of War and Peace (1625) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2014).

The Best of the OLL: A Reader on Individual, Economic, and Political Liberty (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2014).

The Best of the OLL No. 65: Destutt de Tracy, “Of Society” (1817) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2014).

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 Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy (1817) which so impressed Thomas Jefferson that he had it translated into English and published in America. Here he argues that commerce, or voluntary exchanges, is the glue which binds society together.

The Principles of Sociology, in Three Volumes (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898). Vol. 3.

The Principles of Sociology, in Three Volumes (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898). Vol. 2.

This is a 3 vol. set of the third revised edition of Herbert Spencer’s magnum opus on sociology which was first published in 1876. In vol. 1 he defines what his theory of sociology is, how human beings associate with each other in communities, how institution evolve over time, and begins his analysis of institutions with a section on the family, marriage, women and children. In vol. 2 he covers “ceremonial” institutions and political institutions (with his famous distinction between militant and industrial types of society). In vol. 3 he discusses ecclesiastical institutions, professional institutions, and “industrial” (or economic) institutions.

The Collected Liberty Matters: Nos. 1-10 (Jan. 2013 - July 2014), ed. David M. Hart and Sheldon Richman (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2014).