The Principles of Political Economy (1st ed. 1825) (John Ramsay McCulloch)
The Principles of Political Economy: with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science (Edinburgh: William and Charles Tait, 1825).
The Principles of Political Economy: with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science (Edinburgh: William and Charles Tait, 1825).
The Principles of Political Economy, with some Inquiries respecting their Application. 5th ed. (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1864).
The first edition of McCulloch’s major treatise on the principles of political economy. This became the standard text in classical political economics until it was replaced by J.S. Mill’s Principles in 1848. it went through many editions. We have the corrected 5th edition of 1864 in HTML format.
A revised and expanded edition of McCulloch’s major treatise on the principles of political economy.
The Best of the OLL No. 33: Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2013).
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 is a chapter from one of the founding texts of modern feminism which Wollstonecraft wrote during the French Revolution. She extends the idea of universal natural rights to include women and urges parents to devote the same effort in educating their daughters as they did their sons so that they may might reach their full potential.
The Best of the OLL No. 32: Richard Overton, “An Arrow against all Tryants and Tyrany” (October, 1646) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2013).
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 is a pamphlet written by the Leveller Richard Overton from Newgate Prison in October 1646 in which he defends an early form of the self-ownership principle as the grounds for individual liberty.
The Best of the OLL No. 31: Samuel anoints Saul the First King of Israel (c. 1,000 B.C.) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2013).
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 is part of First Samuel in the Old Testament which describes how Samuel appoints Saul the first king of Israel and warns the people how their new king will eventually tyrannize them.