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

The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society

Eric D. Beinhocker
A thorough and often entertaining explanation of complexity economics, through the prism of a leading advocate of free markets

Blowing the Bloody Doors Off

Michael Caine
The actor and Ayn Rand devotee shares his wit and wisdom through a libertarian lens

Small Government My A**

Kevin Loesch
The author argues that conservatives are virtually as committed to big government as liberals

Donʼt Hurt People and Donʼt Take Their Stuff

Matt Kibbe
A rational yet passionate stand for liberty and freedom

White, Right and Libertarian

Chase Rachels
The alternative right reflected in a collection of socio-political essays

Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse

Thomas E. Woods
A Libertarian take on the crash, with a foreword by Ron Paul

Democracy – The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
History from absolute monarchies to democracy. The author, while no monarchist, prefers the former

Pillars of Prosperity

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

Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One

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

Capitalism and Freedom

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

Whatever Happened to Justice?

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

The Money Mystery

Richard J. Maybury
Widely praised work by one of America’s most respected business analysts

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

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

In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword

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

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

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

The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

Ludwig Von Mises
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

The Law

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

Economics in One Lesson

Henry Hazlitt
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

Irrepressible Rothbard

Murray 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.

The Virtue of Selfishness

Ayn Rand
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

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand
The author argues that civilisation’s future depends on comparatively few creative minds
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