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BOLL 26: Lao Tzu, “The Tao of Governing” (6thC BC)

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 collection of 16 passages from Lao Tzu’s Tao-te Ching which is a collection of maxims designed to guide the actions of “the wise ruler.” He recommends that rulers not use violence, avoid war, and leave the people alone to make their own arrangements.

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BOLL 24: Spooner, “Vices are Not Crimes”

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. This is a pamphlet Spooner published in 1875 in which he argued that “vices” should not be punished as crimes. In other words, this is a defense of the right of individuals to engage in so-called “victimless crimes”. Only violence committed against other individuals’ life, liberty, and property were fit matters for the police and courts to busy themselves with.

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BOLL 23: Abbé de Condillac, “On Value and Trade” (1776)

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 consists of two chapters from Condillac’s book Commerce and Government (1776) in which he promotes a radically new and different subjective theory of value which has some striking similarities to that put forward by the Austrian economists during the Marginal Revolution of the 1870s.

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