Showing posts with label Reading Lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading Lists. Show all posts

Monday, October 19, 2009

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Article Recommendations

Current Events

The Health Czar Can't Calculate

Why Obamacare Can't Work: The Calculation Argument

Global Warming is a Fraud: Best essay I've read yet on global warming.

Ethics

Ought Presupposes Can by Steve Horwitz

History

John Lilburne: The First English Libertarian

By Murray Rothbard...

  • The Origins of Individualist Anarchism in America
  • Origins of the Welfare State in America, in which Rothbard reveals the Progressive Movement to have evolved out of Great Revival Yankee pietism.
  • World War I as Fulfillment, in which Rothbard reveals World War I to be a natural extension of the Progressive Movement
  • The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device
  • The Essential Library

    The following are the books which have been the most formative for my worldview.

    Human Nature

    David Hume: Treatise of Human Nature

    Charles Darwin: Origin of the Species


    Economics

    Carl Menger: Principles of Economics

    Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk: Capital and Interest

    Ludwig von Mises: The Theory of Money and Credit    |   Human Action

    Friedrich von Hayek: Prices and Production

    Murray Rothbard: ManEconomy, and State


    Ethics & Political Philosophy

    Murray Rothbard: The Ethics of Liberty  |  For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

    Frederic Bastiat: The Law

    Lysander Spooner: No Treason

    Estienne De La BoetieDiscourse on Voluntary Servitude

    John Locke: Second Treatise of Civil Government


    History

    Jean Gimpel: Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages (Amazon.com)

    Richard Rubenstein: Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages (Amazon.com)