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The Political Compass ™ Reading List - Libertarian Right

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose - because it contains all the others - the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money'.
Ayn Rand
Ron Paul
    Pillars of Prosperity

    A collection of Paul's speeches and writings over the last 30 years ,with the emphasis on economics.

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Robert Nozick
    Anarchy, State and Utopia

    One of the seminal works on right wing libertarianism.

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Benjamin R.Tucker
    Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One

    Important work from this Nineteenth century libertarian who opposed all forms of communism.

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  • Milton Friedman

    "The only social responsibility of a corporation is to deliver a proft to its shareholders"

    Nobel Economics prizewinner - but widely read among non-academics

  • Lanny Ebenstein
      Milton Friedman: A Biography

      A worthy homage to Friedman's ideas.
      --The Financial Times

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  • Richard J. Maybury
      Whatever Happened to Justice ?

      Examines faults in America’s legal and economic system and offers solutions on how to remedy them.

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  • Jonah Goldberg
      Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

      A thought-provoking thesis that asserts liberalism’s connections with fascism in both the past and present.

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  • Jagdish Bhagwati
      In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword

      Argues that properly governed globalisation can be a force for social good in the world.

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  • Joseph Stiglitz
      Globalisation and its Discontents

      Nobel prize winner and former Chief Economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz had a unique insider's view into globalisation. Now he speaks out against it, while arguing that it can still be a force for good - with radical changes to the balance of power.

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  • Thomas L. Friedman
      The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

      Well written unfettered enthusiasm for unfettered market forces; especially of interest to IT professionals.

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  • Ludwig Von Mises
      The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

      Von Mises, who has championed the free market probably more deeply than any other thinker, argues that people whose ambitions haven't been fulfilled blame the System.

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  • Frederic Bastiat
      The Law

      Much admired 19th Century French statesman and essayist advocates free trade and warns of the dangers of socialism.

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  • Richard J. Maybury
      The Money Mystery

      Widely praised work by one of America's most respected business analysts.

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  • Henry Hazlitt
      Economics in One Lesson

      Former Newsweek columnist and favourite of the US Libertarian Party sets out the case for unfettered market forces as the means of achieving social and economic progress.

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  • Murray Rothbard
      Irrepressible Rothbard

      Collection of passionately argued essays by U.S. free market icon

      On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.

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      The Ethics of Liberty

      Radical right philosophy from the noted neo-liberal economist.

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  • P J O'Rourke
      Eat The Rich

      I wanted to know why some parts of the Earth prosper and others suck, writes P.J. O'Rourke...

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  • Ayn Rand

    ...whose works of non-fiction, and novels like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, voiced her fierce hatred of social safety nets and the governments that provide them.

      Capitalism - the Unknown Ideal

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      The Virtue of Selfishness

      For Ayn Rand , 'selfishness' means concern for one's own interests;
      for dictionaries, it's the excessive or exclusive regard for self, and a disregard for others.

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      The Fountainhead

      Pro-business ideology expressed through her most popular work of fiction.

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      Atlas Shrugged

      The author argues that civilisation's future depends on comparatively few creative minds.

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  • F. A. Hayek

    One of the most influential gurus for libertarians of the right

     

     

  • Grahame Thompson
      The Political Economy of the New Right

      Part of a series on right wing parties and ideology

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