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Overview

• N. Stephan Kinsella The Greatest Libertarian. 2006.
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Anarcho-Capitalism: An Annotated Bibliography. 2001.
• Jim Powell. The 20 Best Liberty Books Ever Written. 1999.
• David Boaz. For Further Reading in: Libertarianism: A Primer. Free Press, 1998. (Amazon.com), (Amazon.de).
• Peter van Maanen. Boekentips. (Dutch)
• Paul Geddes and Steve Vanagas. GVLA Libertarian Bibliography. 1992.
• Rafael Hotz. (list of other free book resources)
• bh_johan. (list of other free book resources)

Classic Books

These are the most important classic books orded by the date of the first release (list incomplete). Many stuff is directly available in HTML (html), or as PDF-File (pdf) or indirectly as a free download (free download) in pdf. Some books are presented in a Wikipedia article (WP), or by Google Books.

• Peter G. Klein. The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur - Essays on Organizations and Markets (pdf). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010, (Description), Review: (Woods/LRC), (Tucker), The Why of ... (Klein).

• Jesús Huerta De Soto. The Theory of Dynamic Efficiency (pdf), better quality with bookmarks: (pdf free download). Routledge, 2009, (Description).

• Jörg Guido Hülsmann. Mises - The Last Knight of Liberalism (pdf). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008, (Description).

• Roderick T. Long and Tibor R. Machan. Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country? (pdf free download). Ashgate, 2008, (Description), Review: (David Gordon).

• Edward Stringham. Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice (html). Independent Institute, 2007, (Description), (Buchausgabe.de).

• Michael van Notten. The Law of the Somalis (html). Red Sea Press, 2005, (Description), Review: (Norbert Lennartz), (Amazon.com), (Amazon.de).

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe et al. The Myth of National Defense (pdf). (WP). Ludwig von Mises Institute, Oct. 2003, (Description), Review: (hanshoppe.com).

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Democracy, The God that Failed (pdf free download). (WP). Transaction Publishers. 2001, (Description), Review: (Hoppe/LR), (David Gordon), (hanshoppe.com), Chapter 1, also available as Time Preference, Government, and the Process of De-Civilization - From Monarchy to Democracy, in Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines 5.2 (1994); also published in John Denson, ed., The Cost of War. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1997. (Google Books).

• Bruce L. Benson. To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice (pdf free download). (WP). (Political Economy of the Austrian School Series) NYU Press. 1998, (Description), (Amazon.com), (Amazon.de), (Google Books)

• Robert A. Heinlein. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (pdf). (WP). Orb Books; First Edition edition (June 15, 1997). (Science fiction about private law, the supreme right to self defense, secession), (Amazon.com), (Amazon.de)

• Anthony de Jasay. Against Politics—on Government, Anarchy, and Order (pdf free download). London: Routledge, 1997 and 1998, (Description), (Buchausgabe.de), (Amazon.com), (Amazon.de), (Google Books). Review: (Radnitzky), (D. Gordon)

• Henry Hazlitt. Economics in One Lesson (pdf). (WP). First published in 1946. Fox & Wilkes; Auflage: 50th Anniv (Juli 1996), Laissez Faire Books; 50th Anniversary edition (September 25, 2008) (Amazon.com), (Amazon.de), (Mises Store).

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe. The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (pdf). (WP). First Edition: Kluwer. 1993. Second Edition: Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006, (Description), Review: (hanshoppe.com).

• Bruce L. Benson. The Enterprise of Law / Justice without the State (pdf free download). San Francisco, CA.. Pacific Research Institute for Puplic Policy, 1990, Independent Institute, 2011, (Description), (Mises Store).

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe. A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics (pdf). (WP). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Mises Inst. reprint 2007, (Description), Review: (hanshoppe.com).

• Anthony de Jasay. The State (html). (pdf free download). Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund Inc. 1998, (1985). (Amazon.com).

• Murray Rothbard. The Ethics of Liberty (pdf). (html). (WP). Ludwig von Mises Institute. 1982-2003, (Description).

• Murray Rothbard. Power and Market: Government and the Economy (pdf). Scholars Edition, 2004 (html). (WP). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1970-2006, (Description).

• Murray Rothbard. For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto. (pdf). (html). (WP). (audio). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1973-1978, (Description).

• Murray Rothbard. Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays (pdf). (WP). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1974-2000, (Description).

• Israel M. Kirzner. Competition and Entrepreneurship (pdf free download). First edition 1973, University Of Chicago Press 1978. (Mises Store), (Google Books), (Amazon.com).

• David D. Friedman. The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to Radical Capitalism (pdf). (html). (WP). Open Court Publishing Company; 2. edition, April 19, 1989 (first: 1971). (Amazon.com), (Google Books). There is also a podcost by Francois Tremblay with that name as a mirror of the book but is something else (audio).

• Morris and Linda Tannehill. The Market for Liberty (pdf). (WP). (Audio), (Youtube). Lansing, Michigan: self-published. 1970. (powerful defense of natural rights-based anarchism), (Description), (Amazon.com).

• Murray Rothbard. What Has Government Done to Our Money? (pdf). (html). (WP). (audio). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1963-2005, (Description).

• Murray Rothbard. Man, Economy, and the State (pdf). (html). (WP). Scholars Edition, 2004. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1962-2004, (Description).
  See also the Study Guide to Man, Economy, and the State (pdf) by Robert P. Murphy.

• Friedrich August von Hayek. Individualism and Economic Order (pdf). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009, first in The University of Chicago Press, 1948. (WP). (Description), (Google Books), (Amazon.com), (Mises Store).

• Friedrich August von Hayek. The Road to Serfdom (pdf condensed version). The Institute of Economic Affairs, 1999, Routledge, 2001 (1944). (WP). (Description), (Google Books).

• Ludwig von Mises. Human Action. A Treatise on Economics.. 4th. Edition. Liberty Fund, 1996 (1949, 1963, 1966 before).
  See also: (WP). Audios with Jeff Riggenbach. Mises Made Easier, Glossary for Human Action by Percy L. Greaves, Jr.. Robert P. Murphy. Study Guide to Human Action, (Description).

• Albert Jay Nock. Our Enemy, The State (pdf). (html). (WP). William Morrow & Company, 1935, (Description).

• Frederic Bastiat. The Law (pdf). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007, first published in 1850, bastiat.org (html). bastiat.de (html), (Description).

Other interesting English Books maybe outside to be the most important classic Books:

• Eugen Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterkofler. Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions (pdf). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011, (Description), (Google Books).

• Butler Shaffer. Boundaries of Order - Private Property as a Social System (pdf). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009, (Description), (Mises Store)

• Jörg Guido Hülsmann (ed) and Stephan Kinsella (ed). Property, Freedom, & Society, Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (pdf). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009, (Description).

• Stefan Molyneux. Universally Preferable Behaviour - A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics (pdf). (Mises Wiki). freedomainradio.com, 2007, (Description).

• Ronald Hamowy (ed). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism (pdf free download). SAGE, 2008, (Description), (Google Books).

• Bryan Caplan. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (pdf free download). (WP). Princeton University Press. 2008, (Description), (Amazon.com). (Amazon.de).

• Stefan Molyneux. Practical Anarchy (pdf). (Mises Wiki). freedomainradio.com, 2008, (Description).

• Francois Tremblay. Market Anarchy Explained: But Who Will Build The Roads?. Xlibris Corporation, 2007. (Google Books), (Amazon.com), (Amazon.de).

• Edward Wayne Younkins. Philosophers of capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand, and beyond. Lexington Books, 2005, (Google Books), (Description), (Amazon.com), (Amazon.de).

• Majid Behrouzi. Democracy as the Political Empowerment of the People: The Betrayal of an Ideal. Lexington Books; 2nd Ed edition 2005, (Amazon.com), (Amazon.de).

• Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard (ed.). The Dynamics of Intervention: Regulation and Redistribution in the Mixed Economy (pdf free download). Volume 8 of Advances in Austrian Economics Elsevier Book Series on Science Direct Emerald Group Publishing, 2005, (Google Books).

• Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill. The Not so Wild Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004, (Google Books), (Amazon.com), (Buchausgabe.de).

• Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Speaking of Liberty (pdf). Ludwig von Mises Institute. 2003. (Amazon). (Mises Store). (WP).

• Anthony de Jasay. Justice and Its Surroundings (pdf condensed version). Liberty Fund, 2002, (Description), Review: (Roderick T. Long).

• David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, Alexander Tabarrok. The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (Economics, Cognition, and Society). University of Michigan Press, 2002, (Description), (Google Books), (Amazon.com).

• Chris Matthew Sciabarra. Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. (Independet Review) (Amazon).

• David Gordan (ed.). Secession, State, and Liberty (pdf free download). Transaction Publishers, 2002 (first 1998), (Description), (Google Books), (Amazon.com), (Mises Store).

• Harold Barclay. People without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy. Kahn & Averill Publishers, 1996, (Google Books), (Amazon.com), (Amazon.de).

• George Reisman. Capitalsim: A Treatise on Economics (pdf). Jameson Books, Ottawa, Illinois. 1996. 1998, 2000, (Description).

• David D. Friedman. Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (html). South-Western Publishing Co. 1986, 1990. (Google Books).

• Milton M. Shapiro. Foundations of the Market-Price System (pdf). University Press of America. 1985, (Description), (Mises Store).

• Frank van Dun. Het fundamenteel rechtsbeginsel, een essay over de grondslagen van het recht. (pdf free download). Murray Rothbard Instituut, 2008, (first ed. by Kluwer Rechtswetenschappen, Antwerpen, 1983). (Google Books).

• Harold J. Berman. Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (pdf free download). Harvard University Press (December 7, 1983), (Google Books), (Amazon.com).

• Ludwig von Mises. Economic Freedom and Interventionism (html). Copyright 1980 by Bettina B. Greaves.

• Murray Rothbard. Conceived in Liberty Vol. 1: A New Land, A New People (pdf), Vol. 2: The American Colonies in the First Half of the 18th Century (pdf), Vol. 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 (pdf), Vol. 4: The Revolutionary War (pdf). (WP). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1975-1979, Vol. 1: (Description), Vol. 2: (Description), Vol. 3: (Description), Vol. 4: (Description).

• Murray Rothbard. The Libertarian Forum (journal) (pdf). (WP). Ludwig von Mises Institute. 1969-2006.

• F.A. Hayek. Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Vol. 1: Rules and Order, Vol. 2: The Mirage of Social Justice, Vol. 3: The Political Order of a Free People (pdf free download). (WP). Routledge, 1993, 1998 (first published in 1973, 1976, 1979).

• Ludwig von Mises. Planning for Freedom (pdf). Libertarian Press, 4. ed., 1996, (first 1952). Liberty Fund, 2008. (Short version from 1945 as Mises Daily, 2005), (Mises Store).

• Herbert Spencer. Justice: Being Part IV of the Principles of Ethics. 1879, (Description).

• Herbert Spencer. The Man vs. the State (pdf). Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009, (Description).

• Lionel Robbins. The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy (pdf). London: Macmillan. 1st edition 1952. (Google Books).

German

• Karl Schär. Der zweite Blick. BoD, 2010. (Google Books).
• Carlos A. Gebauer. Warum wir alle reich sein könnten: Und wie unsere Politik das verhindert. Lichtschlag. 2008. (Amazon.de).
• Jesus Huerta de Soto. Die Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie - Markt und unternehmerische Kreativität. Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institut, 2007. (Buchausgabe.de).
• Philipp Bagus. Östereichische Konjunkturtheorie aus heutiger Sicht. Diplomarbeit, Grin Verlag 2006, (Google Books).
• Reinhard Deutsch. Das Silberkomplott. Rottenburg: Kopp, 2006. (Geschichte des Geldes und des Entstehens der "institutionalisierten Korruption" aus Staat und Zentralbanken). (Amazon.de).
• Murray Rothbard. Das Schein-Geld-System: Wie der Staat unser Geld zerstört. Gräfelfing: Resch. 2005 (1. Ausgabe 2000). Übersetzung von What Has Government Done to Our Money? (Google Books), (Resch Verlag), (Amazon.de), (Buchausgabe.de).
• Franz Beitzinger. Politische Ökonomie des Politikbetriebes. Die konzeptionellen Unterschiede verschiedener traditioneller Ökonomietraditionen in Analyse und Bewertung politischer Ordnungen. Stuttgart: Lucius, 2004, (Google Books).
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Demokratie, der Gott der keiner ist. Manuscriptum, 2003, (Mises.de).
• Stefan Blankertz. Das Libertäre Manifest - Über den Widerspruch zwischen Wohlstand und Staat (pdf). (html). Grevenbroich: Lichtschlag, Werbung und Medien KG (Books on Demand GmbH), 2. Auflage, März 2002.
• Reinhard Deutsch. Die Geldfalle (html). Selbst veröffentlicht, 2001.
• David D. Friedman. Das Räderwerk der Freiheit. Übersetzung von The Machinery of Freedom, 1971. Grevenbroich: Lichtschlag, Werbung und Medien KG (Books on Demand GmbH), April 2003, seit 2010 vergriffen, (Amazon.de).
• Friedrich August von Hayek. Der Weg zur Knechtschaft. Übersetzung von The Road to Serfdom, 1944, Neuausgabe: Olzog, April 2003, (Amazon.de), (Buchausgabe.de).
• Ludwig von Mises. Nationalökonomie: Theorie Des Handelns und Wirthschaftens (pdf). (WP), (the 1940 German-language predecessor to Human Action) 1940.
• Ludwig von Mises. Die Gemeinwirtschaft (pdf). Jena: Gustav Fischer. 1922, (Mises.de).

Last revision and update: July 2011

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