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The Freedom Freeway
Leonard E. Read
Издател: Foundation for Economic Education
As that French philosopher, Montesquieu, wrote about 200 years ago, "Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. " How easy it is to confirm this wisdom. Red Russia, for instance, has climates as friendly, soil as fertile, resources as great as the U.S.A. Our plenitude in goods, services, discoveries, inventions,
Profession of Faith to the Electors of the District of Saint-Sever (1846)
Frédéric Bastiat
Издател: Foundation for Economic Education
In 1846, France was still a monarchy, known as the "July Monarchy", because the King, Louis-Philippe, came to power after a popular upheaval against the previous king, Charles X, in July 1830. From an administrative point of view, France was divided - as it is still today - into "départements", or departments, and the departments in
The Bastiat Collection
Frédéric Bastiat
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
The world has always needed this: a gigantic collection of Bastiat's greatest work in a single, super-handy pocket edition, at a ridiculously affordable price. All of the best essays by this giant of liberty are here, 1000 plus pages of it, but in a compact package that it is still easy to read. In fact, it is a joy to hold and even more to read
A Treatise on Political Economy
Jean-Baptiste Say
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) has been described as a revolutionary, an author of scholarly books and popular tracts, a social philosopher, a successful entrepreneur and a remarkable Renaissance man.
Above all, however, he was a great economist. He might best be described as a proto-Austro-Misesian, the author of the law of markets, known as
The Origins of Money
Carl Menger
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Written in the same year that he testified before the Currency Commission in Austria-Hungary, and published in English in 1892, Carl Menger explains that it is not government edicts that create money but instead the marketplace. Individuals decide what the most marketable good is for use as a medium of exchange. “Man himself is the beginning and
Sketches of the History of Man
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
Henry Home, Lord Kames, was by nature an advocate for reform and improvement and stood at the heart of the modernizing and liberalizing movement now known as the Scottish Enlightenment. The reaction to his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion was a defining moment in the establishment of the predominance of moderation in the
Sketches of the History of Man
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
Written late in his life, this 3 volume work deals with the idea of human progress. Vol. 1 deals with progress in property law, commerce, the treatment of women, and luxury. Vol. 2 deals with the development of states, government, and taxation. Vol. 3 deals with the progress of science.
Sketches of the History of Man
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
In the final book, Kames turns to an account of progress in the sciences of logic, morals, and theology. He seeks to vindicate the claim that “human understanding is in a progress towards maturity, however slow.” Throughout the entire work, Kames expounds on his fundamental hypothesis that at the beginning of the history of the human race,
The Turgot Collection
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
Издател: 534
This outstanding book was ten years in the making, but it is finally here and the result is startling. It is a pocket edition, super economical, 525 pages of Turgot – the bulk of his life’s work, all beautifully organized.
He might have been the key influence on Jefferson but, in any case, he certainly was the great French liberal of the 18th
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