The Essential Library

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

Human Nature

David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature

Charles Darwin: Origin of the Species

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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: Man, Economy, and State

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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 Boetie: Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

John Locke: Second Treatise of Civil Government

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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)

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