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For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/4/2012

Latest edition includes an introduction by Lew Rockwell. In For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for us...
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Albert Jay Nock Updated 7/19/2012

Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of soci...
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/12/2012

Ridiculously low price! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austria...
The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Updated 12/20/2011

This exceeding rare book is by one of the great men of the 20th century. Written soon after his immigration to the United States, he signed the book "Francis Stuart Campbell" because he was a refugee from Austria and didn't want to enda...
Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Updated 12/9/2011

Sometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the idea was always vague. In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political power a...
Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/5/2011

What can government do to enhance social and economic well being? Nothing, says Murray N. Rothbard. Power and Market contains the proof. It will inoculate the reader against even the slightest temptation to invoke the state as a solution to any socia...
One Is a Crowd

Frank Chodorov Updated 9/15/2011

This is a treasure: One Is a Crowd. It collects Frank Chodorov's most profound essays on the topic of individualism, many of which have otherwise been unjustly lost to history. The reader will be riveted by his biographical essay on the meanin...
On Doing the Right Thing

Albert Jay Nock Updated 6/7/2011

This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his "Anarchist's Progress," "Thoughts on Revolution," "The Decline of Conversation," and other classics by this great American...
Myth of National Defense, The: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 5/13/2011

With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services. It argues that "nat...
The Future

Edward Wayne Younkins Updated 5/11/2011

Edward Wayne Younkins Capitalism & Commerce, ch. 29: "The Future" Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise. Thanks to David Schatz....
Chaos Theory

Robert P. Murphy Updated 3/18/2011

Among the most advanced topics in the literature in the Austro-libertarian milieu is that which deals with the workings of the fully free society, that is, the society with no state, or anarcho-capitalism. Robert Murphy deals with this head on, and m...
Out of Step

Frank Chodorov Updated 3/11/2011

Frank Chodorov was a journalist of the Old Right with an extraordinary writing ability. He was also a top-notch intellectual figure who has been tragically neglected. This collection might be his best. Among the smashing essays here are: "Isolat...
The Private Production of Defense

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 2/2/2011

Hans Hoppe takes on the most difficult subject in economic and political theory: the provision of security. He argues that the service is better provided by free markets than government, while addressing a hundred counter-arguments. Here we have an i...
The Market for Liberty

Morris and Linda Tannehill Updated 5/14/2010

Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and labored discipline. But other classics are written in a white heat during the moment of discovery, with prose that shines forth like the sun pouring into the window of a time...
1. The Prostitute

Walter Block Updated 10/18/2009

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Society Without Coercion

Jarret B. Wollstein Updated 7/10/2007

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"Anarchism and the Public Goods Issue: Law, Courts, and the Police

David Osterfeld Updated 1/15/2007

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Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections

Roderick T. Long Updated 1/15/2007

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"Whither anarchy? Has Robert Nozick justified the state?"

Randy E. Barnett Updated 1/15/2007

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"Invisible Hand Strikes Back, The"

Roy A. Childs Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Free Market Model versus Government: A Reply to Nozick"

John T. Sanders Updated 1/15/2007

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"Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Order Without Law: Where Will Anarchists Keep the Madmen?"

John D. Sneed Updated 1/15/2007

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"Political Freedom and its Roots in Metaphysics"

Moshe Kroy Updated 1/15/2007

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"Benjamin Tucker and His Periodical, Liberty"

Carl Watner Updated 1/15/2007

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"Nozick, Anarchism and Procedural Rights"

Jeffrey Paul Updated 1/15/2007

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"Note on Anarchy, State, and Utopia"

James Dale Davidson Updated 1/15/2007

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"Stateless Society: Frech on Rothbard"

Karl T. Fielding Updated 1/15/2007

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"Role of Personal Justice in Anarcho-capitalism, The"

Karl T. Fielding Updated 1/15/2007

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"Voluntaryism: The Political Thought of Auberon Herbert"

Eric Mack Updated 1/15/2007

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"Anarchy Revisited: An Inquiry into the Public Education Dilemma"

Robert H. Chappell Updated 1/15/2007

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"Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?"

Alfred G. Cuzan Updated 1/15/2007

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"Justice Entrepreneurship In a Free Market"

George H. Smith Updated 1/15/2007

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"Comment on Smith"

Randy E. Barnett Updated 1/15/2007

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"George Smith's Justice (Comment on Smith)"

Robert L. Formaini Updated 1/15/2007

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"Justice Entrepreneurship Revisited: Reply to Critics"

George H. Smith Updated 1/15/2007

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"Harold J. Laski: The Liberal Manque or Lost Libertarian?"

Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. Updated 1/15/2007

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"Internal Inconsistencies in Arguments for Government: Nozick, Rand, and Hospers"

David Osterfeld Updated 1/15/2007

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"Culture of Individualist Anarchism in Late 19th Century America"

Wendy McElroy Updated 1/15/2007

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"Review of <em>Eight Steps Toward Libertarianism</em> by Joseph Fulda"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Review of <em>To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice</em> by Bruce Benson"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Schism between Individualist and Communist Anarchism in the Nineteenth Century"

Wendy McElroy Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Impossibility of the State"

Leonard Brewster Updated 1/15/2007

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"All Goverment is Excessive: A Rejoinder to Dwight Lee's "In Defense of Excessive Government""

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review of <em>The Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881–1908</em>, by Wendy McElroy"

Robert Bass Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review of <em>On Nozick</em>, by Edward Feser"

J.C. Lester Updated 1/15/2007

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"Carson's Rejoinders"

Kevin A. Carson Updated 1/15/2007

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Contra Spooner

Colin Williams Updated 1/15/2007

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"Review of <em>Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society</em> by Robert Higgs"

William L. Anderson Updated 1/15/2007

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The Book of Journeyman: Essays from the New Freeman

Albert Jay Nock Updated 1/15/2007

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