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Areopagitica and Other Political Writings of John Milton
John Milton
Издател: Liberty Fund
As poet, statesman, and pamphleteer, John Milton remains one of the singular champions of liberty in the annals of history. Even in his mediations on theology Milton strove to demonstrate that liberty—of conscience—is one of the inviolable rights of free peoples. In his theological writings he seeks to unite ancient philosophy and the
A Plea for Liberty
Thomas Mackay
Издател: Liberty Classics
"In a half-century of reviewing, I have never encountered a more sobering book than A Plea for Liberty.
— John Chamberlain, Reason
This collection of essays was originally published in 1891, at a time when the modern welfare state was first taking shape. The theoretical and empirical contributions are fine examples of the classical liberal
The Man Versus the State
Herbert Spencer
Издател: Liberty Fund
This volume contains the four essays that Spencer published as The Man Versus the State in 1884 as well as five essays added by later publishers. In addition, it provides "The Proper Sphere of Government," an important early essay by Spencer.
Spencer develops various specific disastrous ramifications of the wholesale substitution of the
Law, Liberty, and Parliament
Sir Edward Coke
Издател: Liberty Fund
The fifteen essays presented in Law, Liberty and Parliament: Selected Essays on the Writings of Sir Edward Coke examine the legal and political realms within which Coke operated, discuss how classical rhetoric underpinned his learning, and place his work in the context of Elizabethan culture.
An Essay on the Life of the Honourable Major-General Israel Putnam
David Humphreys
Издател: Liberty Fund
David Humphreys was aide-de-camp to Washington during the American Revolution. His Life of Israel Putnam, originally published in 1788, has rightly been described as “the first biography of an American written by an American.” It is, as William C. Dowling observes, “a classic of revolutionary writing, very readable and immensely interesting
The Economic Point of View
Israel M. Kirzner
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
The Economic Point of View is the inaugural volume in Liberty Fund’s new Collected Works of Israel M. Kirzner series. This work established Kirzner as a careful and meticulous scholar of economics. No other living economist is so closely associated with the Austrian School of economics as Israel M. Kirzner, professor emeritus of economics at New
The Servile State
Hilaire Belloc
Издател: Liberty Fund
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) was one of the most respected men of his day for his learning, insight, wit, and brilliant literary style. Author of over a hundred books and articles, Belloc was a journalist, polemicist, social and political analyst, literary critic, poet, and novelist.
The Servile State has endured as his most important political
A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality
Frederic William Maitland
Издател: Liberty Fund
A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality is a window to one of the most important historians of all time.
This exclusive Liberty Fund edition of F. W. Maitland's classic includes a note on Maitland by Charles Haskins, and a general account of Maitland's life and work, "The Historical Spirit Incarnate: Frederic William Maitland," by Robert
The Logic of Liberty
Michael Polanyi
Издател: Liberty Fund
A chemist and member of a family renowned for its learning in several disciplines, Michael Polanyi experienced first-hand the horrors of totalitarian government and worldwide war. Consequently there is a singular weight to Polanyi's challenge to advocates of centrally planned scientific inquiry or the centrally planned implementation of scientific
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