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Stephan Kinsellas List of Great Libertarian
Books and Authors
The Greatest Libertarian Books

by N. Stephan Kinsella

Great Libertarian Books and Authors Curt Doolittle - Kiev, Ukraine

Not a Conservative - a Radical
I am an independent theorist of Political
Economy in the Conservative Libertarian
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism. Topping my
tradition, and founder of the Propertarian
list is A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, as well as a host of other works, by Hans- Institute
Hermann Hoppe, our greatest living intellectual. Hoppes other influential works
WH AT I S P R OP ER T AR I AN ISM ?
include Democracy: The God That Failed, The Economics and Ethics of Private
Propertarianism is a formal logic of
Property, and Economic Science and the Austrian Method. Sure, Hoppe stands on the
morality, ethics and politics and the
shoulders of giants primarily Mises and Rothbard but to my mind his edifice of necessary basis for a non-arbitrary, value-
thought is the pinnacle of Austro-libertarian thinking. Somewhat sobering is the independent, universal, body of law; upon
which any and all political orders can be
realization that Hoppe was only forty when he wrote Capitalism. Gulp. constructed, and with which all questions
of morality, ethics and politics are
commensurable and all such propositions
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action. And his other works too, including another of decidable. Propertarianism supplies the
my favorites, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science. Arguably the greatest missing logic - the logic of cooperation.

genius of the twentieth century, if not all of human history. Need anything else be said? PU R PO SE

To convert western aristocratic egalitarian

Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty. And Man, Economy and State, Power philosophy into rational and scientific
and Market, For A New Liberty, and countless other works. The Mises-Rothbard-Hoppe terms:
"De Philosophia Aristocratia"
troika are the standard-bearers for modern Austro-libertarianism. Im tempted to call
them the Austro-libertarian trinity, but to avoid offense, Ill refrain. Anglo Conservatism is the remnant of the
European Aristocratic Manorial system
and the Classical Liberal philosophy of the
Enlightenment combined with our ancient
Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson is one I often recommend as a starting point
indo-european instincts for group
for a novice interested in learning more about the freedom philosophy. As is my next persistence and land-holding: truth-telling,
choice the jury, and heroism.

This philosophy - which separates the west

from the rest - currently consists as a set of
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, ed., The Free Market Reader: Essays in the sentiments rather than as an rationally
Economics of Liberty. This underappreciated selection of classic short pieces articulated philosophy expressed in
scientific terms. And without that rational
mainly by Rockwell and Rothbard from The Free Market is a fantastic introduction to articulation, conservatives lack the ability
sound economic thinking. See also the followup, The Economics of Liberty. to create and promote a plan that is a
positive and rhetorically defensible
alternative to the hazards of accidental
Frederic Bastiat, The Law. Another great introductory book. They dont make em bureaucracy and purposeful socialism.

like they used to. This lack of an articulated philosophy

leaves conservatives vulnerable in the
public debate with Schumpeterian public
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom. I might now find things I dont agree intellectuals whose advantage in both
volume of production, and simplicity of
with in this magnificent book perhaps whiffs of positivism, insufficient radicalism

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but, for me, reading it was eye-opening and helped deepen my budding appreciation for argument poses a nearly insurmountable
challenge.
libertarianism and free market economics.
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supplying a necessary, sufficient, and
Linda & Morris Tannehill, The Market for Liberty. For minarchists and formal articulation of western aristocratic
egalitarianism we currently all
mainstreamers, a mindblowing introduction to the possibilities of non-state order and
conservatism and anglo libertarianism (not
liberty. David Friedmans The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical cosmopolitan libertinism).
Capitalism complements the Tannehills book well, as does Imagining a Polycentric
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Constitutional Order: A Short Fable, chapter 14 of Randy Barnetts The Structure of
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Something about Friedmans Machinery always bugged me maybe it was the way he M ET A

noted that HazlittsEconomics in One Lesson is reputed to be a good introductory book Register
on economics, but I have not read it as if he does not need to. From someone with Log in
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degrees only in physics and chemistry, I suppose I would have expected a bit more
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humility; and his over-reliance on law and economics has always made Friedman seem WordPress.org
just a tad too much the dilettante and Austro-cynic for my taste.
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Nonetheless, Machinery has to be mentioned here.
Intellectual Property (IP) In
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Lysander Spooner, No Treason No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority. An Propertarianisms Testimonial Truth
eye-opening expose to the lies spread by contractarians and constitutionalists. Propertarianism and the Purpose of
Philosophy
The Reason For Western Rates of
Development?
James J. Kilpatrick, The Sovereign States: Notes of a Citizen of Virginia. The
Methodological Ternary-ism: Physical
works noted above are all by libertarians or proto-libertarians (e.g., Spooner and Instrumentation, Logical
Instrumentation, Social Instrumentation
Bastiat). Kilpatrick was no libertarian but this work is probably one of the best non-
Mises Position In Intellectual History
fiction books Ive ever read, and reading it would be immensely valuable to all The Evolution of Cooperation
libertarians today, especially those who too readily condone state centralism. See, for Moral Foundations as Property Rights
Neo-Reaction in a Nutshell: We Are
example, this brief excerpt on the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, and the federal Ruled By A Theocracy An Evil One.
judiciary. And consider this passage, describing the Supreme Courts illegitimate The Central Argument: Western
Testimonial Truth vs Platonic Truth
expansion of power under the guise of the Constitutions interstate commerce clause:
Mises Praxeology As The Failure To
Develop Economic Operationalism
Rendering Rothbardian Fallacies
Intellectually Embarrassing And
Argumentatively Impossible
It was an insidious process, conducted with the care of the cat that stalks her
prey now creeping forward, now pausing to sniff the air; now advancing,
now lying still as the bird takes alarm; then edging forward again, and so, step
by inexorable step, moving to the ultimate seizure. [p. 235]

Sounds a lot like the tactics used by the left over the last several decades, doesnt it?
Kilpatrick may not have been a libertarian, perhaps, but this book is great libertarian
ammunition. Would that this were required reading in all law schools, if not all high
schools.

David Gordon on Liberty, and Lew Rockwell on Reading for Liberty.

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