Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Bruce Frohnen • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Many reference works offer compilations of critical documents covering individual liberty, local auton...

• Author(s): Michael Oakeshott • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsBy 1989, when Michael Oakeshott's Voice of Liberal Learning was first published by Yale University Press, b...

• Author(s): William Penn • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Civil RightsWilliam Penn (1644-1718) played a crucial role in the articulation of religious liberty as a philosophical and political value during the s...

• Author(s): Frederic William Maitland • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Civil RightsA Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality is a window to one of the most important historians of all time. This exclusive Li...

• Author(s): Gershom Carmichael • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Natural LawGershom Carmichael (1672-1729) was the first professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, preceding Hutcheson, Smith, a...

• Author(s): Gershom Carmichael • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Natural LawGershom Carmichael (1672-1729) was the first professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, preceding Hutcheson, Smith, a...

• Author(s): Kenneth Minogue • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: GeneralKenneth Minogue offers a brilliant and provocative exploration of liberalism in the Western world today: its roots and its influences, its pr...

• Author(s): E. G. West • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: HistoryIn Education and the Industrial Revolution, West writes about an Educational Revolution during the Industrial Revolution. This book adds importan...

• Author(s): Herman Belz • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipThe debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differing u...

• Author(s): Frederic William Maitland • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Civil RightsA Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality is a window to one of the most important historians of all time. This exclusive Li...

• Author(s): Samuel Johnson • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralThe eighteenth century produced a remarkable array of thinkers whose influence in the development of free societies and fr...

• Author(s): John Marshall • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: GeneralUsed throughout the first half of the nineteenth century in schools and colleges, John Marshall's own abridgment of his monumental five-volume ...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: GeneralThis volume presents a representative sampling of James M. Buchanan's philosophical views as he deals with fundamental problems of moral sc...

• Author(s): David Humphreys • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: GeneralDavid Humphreys was aide-de-camp to Washington during the American Revolution. His Life of Israel Putnam, originally published in 1788, has ...

• Author(s): John Passmore • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Movements - HumanismA reviewer of the original edition in 1970 of The Perfectibility of Man well summarizes the scope and significance of this renowne...

• Author(s): Ludwig Von Mises • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAfter he fled Austria, Ludwig von Mises arrived in the United States and continued to write essays on economics. ...

• Author(s): Ludwig Von Mises • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAfter he fled Austria, Ludwig von Mises arrived in the United States and continued to write essays on economics. ...

• Author(s): James McClellan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: ConstitutionalUnlike most textbooks in American Government, Liberty, Order, and Justice seeks to familiarize the student with the basic principles o...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Public FinanceIn his foreword, Geoffrey Brennan states, "The papers in this volume represent a coherent set of pieces focused on aspects of public...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Brennan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentIn his foreword, Robert D. Tollison identifies the main objective of Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan's The...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - GeneralEconomic Inquiry and Its Logic presents a collection of Buchanan's most representative works in economic method and analysis. A...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: PoliticalThis volume presents a collection of thirty-four essays and shorter works by James M. Buchanan that represent the brilliance of his found...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economic ConditionsDemocracy in Deficit is one of the early comprehensive attempts to apply the basic principles of public-choice analysis to macr...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Brennan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - GeneralCommenting on his collaboration with Geoffrey Brennan on The Power to Tax, James M. Buchanan says that the book is "demonstrable...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: GeneralPublished originally in 1975, The Limits of Liberty made James Buchanan's name more widely known than ever before among political philosoph...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Public FinancePublic-goods theory constituted a major element in James M. Buchanan's research agenda throughout the 1960s. The Demand and Supply o...

• Author(s): Robert Nisbet • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: General"We had thought, or our forefathers had, that modern liberal democracy would be spared the kind of erosion and decay that both Plato and Aristo...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Public FinancePublic Finance in Democratic Process is James M. Buchanan's monumental work that outlines the dynamics of individual choice as it is...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Public FinancePublic Finance in Democratic Process is James M. Buchanan's monumental work that outlines the dynamics of individual choice as it is...

• Author(s): John Dickinson • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Two series of letters described as "the wellsprings of nearly all ensuing debate on the limits of gov...

• Author(s): Laurence L. Bongie • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: PoliticalThough usually Edmund Burke is identified as the first to articulate the principles of a modern conservative political tradition, arguab...

• Author(s): Shirley Robin Letwin • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: PoliticalBy examining the thought of four seminal thinkers, Shirley Robin Letwin in The Pursuit of Certainty provides a brilliant record of the...

• Author(s): Douglass Adair • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)The fifteen articles, essays, notes, and documents gathered in this collection are a permanent contributio...

• Author(s): Joyce Lee Malcolm • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFor much of Europe the seventeenth century was, as it has been termed, an "Age of Absolutism" in which single rule...

• Author(s): M. J. C. Vile • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)In Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers, M. J. C. Vile traces the history of the doctrine from i...

• Author(s): Anthony De Jasay • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe State is a brilliant analysis of modern political arrangements that views the state as acting in its own interest...

• Author(s): Bertrand De Jouvenel • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWho decides? Who is the Sovereign? What is a good act? In quest of answers to these vitally important questions, ...

• Author(s): Heinrich A. Rommen • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: PoliticalOriginally published in German in 1936, The Natural Law is the first work to clarify the differences between traditional natural law as ...

• Author(s): Heinrich A. Rommen • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: PoliticalOriginally published in German in 1936, The Natural Law is the first work to clarify the differences between traditional natural law as ...

• Author(s): Russell Kirk • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: American Government - Legislative BranchJohn Randolph of Roanoke is unique in American political history. For most of his public career Randolph was a ...

• Author(s): Colleen A. Sheehan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)There were many writers other than John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton who, in 1787 and 17...

• Author(s): Raoul Berger • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Government - FederalIt is Berger's theory that the United States Supreme Court has embarked on "a continuing revision of the Constitution, under the gu...

• Author(s): John Trenchard • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: EssaysAlmost a generation before Washington, Henry, and Jefferson were even born, two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honored ancien...

• Author(s): François Guizot • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyThe French political philosopher and historian François Guizot (1787-1874) was one of the French Doctrinaires, think...

• Author(s): Edward Shils • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralEdward Shils was one of the leading intellectual defenders of freedom in the twentieth century. In these nine essays, he ...

• Author(s): Wilhelm Von Humboldt • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe Limits of State Action has an exuberance and attention to principle that make it a valuable introduction to c...

• Author(s): E. G. West • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Administration - GeneralEducation and the State first appeared in 1965 and was immediately hailed as one of the century's most important works on educati...

• Author(s): Jacob Burckhardt • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: GeneralAs a rule, an author's correspondence possesses only a secondary interest, but Jacob Burckhardt's letters are of primary interest to student...

• Author(s): John C. Calhoun • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: PoliticalCalhoun's most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many...

• Author(s): Johannes Althusius • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: GeneralDrawing deeply from Aristotle and biblical teaching, Politica presents a unique vision of the commonwealth as a harmonious ordering of nat...

• Author(s): H. B. Acton • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Business EthicsAlthough the market economy is not as unpopular now as when Acton wrote The Morals of Markets, the morality of buying and selling has lo...

• Author(s): G. Warren Nutter • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThese thirty-three essays, many of them previously unpublished, illustrate the broad range of Warren Nutter's thought. There are...

• Author(s): John Taylor of Caroline • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: GeneralJohn Taylor of Caroline (1753-1824) was one of the foremost philosophers of the States' rights Jeffersonians of the early national pe...

• Author(s): Albert Jay Nock • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis collection is the first chosen from Albert Jay Nock's entire work and the first new collection in nearly th...

• Author(s): William Graham Sumner • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: GeneralWilliam Graham Sumner is the "forgotten man" of American intellectual history. Too often dismissed or only superficially understood, hi...

• Author(s): Michael Oakeshott • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralRationalism in Politics established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. T...

• Author(s): Helmut Schoeck • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: EmotionsThis classic study is one of the few books to explore extensively the many facets of envy--"a drive which lies at the core of man's life as a...

• Author(s): Arthur R. Hogue • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Legal HistoryThis introductory analysis of the origin and early development of the English common law provides an excellent grounding for the beginn...

• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - TheoryReflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlighten...

• Author(s): Frank H. Knight • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThe fifteen essays in this collection, first published in 1947, treat a variety of economic, social, political, and philosophical...