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Books for beginners

Started by JJ, July 23, 2009, 01:24 AM NHFT

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JJ

I'm looking for a list of books about libertarian and voluntarism philosophy for those new to the ideas.  Thanks.

Puke


Lloyd Danforth


Kat Kanning

Princess Navina Visits Voluntaria.

Kat Kanning

A Voluntaryist Bibliography, The Short List
Prepared by Carl Watner, July 2009
(With suggestions by subscribers)
I. Books that helped me evolve into a voluntaryist
Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED
Ayn Rand, FOR THE NEW INTELLECTUAL
Leonard Read, GOVERNMENT - AN IDEAL CONCEPT
Murray Rothbard, MAN, ECONOMY, AND STATE
Lysander Spooner, NO TREASON, NO. 6
William Graham Sumner, THE FORGOTTEN MAN, THE CHALLENGE OF FACTS, WAR, EARTH-HUNGER AND OTHER ESSAYS (4 vols.)
Morris and Linda Tannehill, THE MARKET FOR LIBERTY
Ludwig von Mises, HUMAN ACTION
William Wooldridge, UNCLE SAM, THE MONOPOLY MAN

II. Other books that I would recommend to those interested in voluntaryism
Bruce Benson, THE ENTERPRISE OF LAW: Justice Without the State
Etienne de La Boetie, THE POLITICS OF OBEDIENCE
Robert LeFevre, THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LIBERTY
Albert Jay Nock, OUR ENEMY, THE STATE
Jim Payne, PRINCESS NAVINA VISITS VOLUNTARIA
Robert Ringer, RESTORING THE AMERICAN DREAM
Murray Rothbard, FOR A NEW LIBERTY
Mary Ruwart, HEALING OUR WORLD IN AN AGE OF AGGRESSION
Lysander Spooner, THE LYSANDER SPOONER READER
Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"
Benjamin Tucker, INSTEAD OF A BOOK
Carl Watner, I MUST SPEAK OUT

III. Economics for those interested in voluntaryism
Walter Block, DEFENDING THE UNDEFENDABLE
Elgin Groseclose, MONEY AND MAN
Henry Hazlitt, ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON
Murray Rothbard, POWER AND MARKET
Murray Rothbard, THE CASE FOR A 100 PER CENT GOLD DOLLAR
Murray Rothbard, WHAT HAS GOVERNMENT DONE TO OUR MONEY?

IV. Links to Bibliographies on the worldwide web
www.mises.org/story/1830: David Gordon, "The Meaning and History of Liberty: An In-Print Bibliography"
www.tolfa.us/: Jim Davies, The On Line Freedom Academy
www.freeofstate.org/new/?page_id=3044: Society Without the State, Bibliography
www.lewrockwell.com/orig/gordon2.html: David Gordon, "Books on Liberty"
www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon25.html: David Gordon, "Murray Rothbard's Favorite Books"
http://v-50.org/: Andrew Galambos and Jay Snelson, The V-50 Lectures