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New Libertarian Manifesto – Samuel Edward Konkin III
New Libertarian Manifesto by Samuel Edward Konkin III Koman Publishing, 1983 Dedication to Chris R. Tame who told me, “Don’t get it right, get it written!” Acknowledgments above all to • Ludwig Von Mises, • Murray N. Rothbard, • Robert LeFevre, • and their sources. 1. st Printing by Anarchosamisdat Press – October 1980 2. [...]
Book Recommendation: A Catechism of Anarchy
by James Tuttle, Center for a Stateless Society This lost classic was first published anonymously in 1902 by the Social Science Club of Philadelphia, whose members included Voltairine de Cleyre, Mary Hansen, Natasha Notkin, and other Mutualists, Individualists, and Communists from the Philadelphia social movement. The “Catechism,” drafted by Hansen and finished by the Club [...]
The Greatest Libertarian Books
by N. Stephan Kinsella Austrian libertarians, more than most, should be acutely aware of the impossibility of coming up with a truly objective “top ten” list. Smith’s most valued book may be far down on Jones’s subjective rankings. Nonetheless, we forge ahead because such lists can be provocative, illuminating, and interesting. So in response to “The [...]
Interview with Alongside Night author, J. Neil Schulman
BY ADUCKNAMEDJOE MARCH 8, 2012 J. Neil Schulman is one of the giants of the libertarian novelists active today. His 1979 novel, Alongside Night, is a libertarian classic, with endorsements from Milton Friedman, Ron Paul and others. It has helped to almost single-handedly jump-start the Agorist movement, and is currently being turned into a movie starring Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, Andromeda). [...]
Book Review – The End of the Free Market by Ian Bremmer
Book Review – The End of the Free Market by Ian Bremmer, Portfolio, 230 pp The global financial crisis has not only been a source of misery to millions around the world, but has also created a crisis of capitalism, where even its champions are questioning its future. For example, the Financial Times ran a series of articles under [...]
Jeffrey Tucker Joins Agora Financial, to Relaunch Laissez Faire Books
From Break the Matrix Baltimore, MD – Addison Wiggin, executive publisher of Agora Financial, announced that effective immediately, Jeffrey Tucker has joined the company and will serve as executive editor of recently-acquired Laissez Faire Books. Jeffrey Tucker is the author of several books including Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo (2010), and It’s a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes, [...]
The Agora Telegraph Library
Agora Telegraph book recommendations below. Each time you buy a book through the Amazon widget, the Agora Telegraph will get a small percentage of the total sale. All money received through the Amazon Associates Program will be used to help maintain and improve the Agora Telegraph site. New book recommendations are added often so check [...]
Can Culture Generate Spontaneous Order?
Can Culture Generate Spontaneous Order? Mises Daily: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 by Bruce Edward Walker [Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture • Edited by Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox • Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009 • xviii + 510 pages] Can Austrian Economics serve as a basis for literary criticism? In recent decades, [...]
Politically Impossible? – Mises Institute Book Recommendation
Politically Impossible? Should economists curb their rhetoric and prescriptions based on “political realities”? Should anyone attempt to conceal the truth about state intervention for fear of not fitting into the existing political culture? Many people answer yes to both questions, on grounds that taking a hard-core position in favor of freedom threatens to make one [...]
Book Recommendation – Rothbard vs the Philosophers
Rothbard vs the Philosophers Here is Rothbard’s stunning mind at work on some of the most serious topics in philosophy, economics, and politics, originally crafted as private memos. The advantage here is that you get super-candid evaluations of the thought of the giants while avoiding the appartus of formal papers. The result is more like [...]
Book Recommendation – Nullification & We Who Dared to Say No to War
Nullification The political agenda of the old liberals was not merely to limit the size of the government but also its scope. That means that lower orders of government have rights against higher ones. In the American context, that means that the state can tell the federal government that its laws are invalid – that [...]
Book Recommendation – Libertarianism Today
Libertarianism Today The Mises Institute is the exclusive distributor of this paperback edition at this special price! It might seem easy to write an overview of libertarianism. If so, why do so many attempts fall short? They typically leave out something important, like foreign policy, drugs, or intellectual property, or the attempts are biased this [...]
Book Recommendation – War is Lovely (to the State)
Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy A president faced an economic depression that wouldn’t go away, and a deeply disgruntled electorate. Not for the first or last time, the option of entering a war seemed politically appealing. How badly did FDR want a war and to what lengths was he will to go [...]
Book Recommendation – British and International Economic History
Towards a Theoretical Framework for British and International Economic History Sudha Shenoy (1943-2008) was a legendary figure in the history of the Austrian School. Her father, B.R. Shenoy, was practically the only libertarian in India in his day. His daughter, Sudha, was a student of Hayek and Rothbard and went on to teach in Australia, [...]
