Liberty Classics are reviews of texts published across the Liberty Fund network focused on each title’s enduring legacy and contemporary relevance.
Our collection of Liberty Classics includes:
- Charles L. Hooper, Henry George’s Protection or Free Trade: A Critical Review. February 2017.
- Arnold Kling, What Makes Capitalism Tick? April 2018.
- Pierre Lemieux, An Unavoidable Theory of the State, June 2018.
- Steven Horwitz, Ludwig von Mises’s Socialism: A Still Timely Case Against Marx. October 2018.
- Pierre Lemieux, Lessons and Challenges in The Limits of Liberty. November 2018.
- Ross Emmett, A Century of Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit. December 2018.
- Leonidas Zelmanovitz, Vera Smith: The Contrarian View. January 2019.
- Dwight Lee, Can Capitalism Survive? Ben Rogge on Capitalism’s Future. February 2019.
- Donald Boudreaux, What Should Economists Do? An Appreciation. March 2019.
- Adam Martin, Hayek, Mises, and the Methodology of the Social Sciences. April 2019.
- David Henderson, Economics Works. May 2019.
- Pierre Lemieux, How the State Has Grown to be the Monster We Know: Bertrand de Jouvenel’s On Power. July 2019.
- Alberto Mingardi, Equality and Freedom in Herbert Spencer’s Principles of Ethics. August 2019.
- Roger Donway, Rehabilitating Self-Help: Why Hayek was Wrong About Samuel Smiles. September 2019.
- Stefanie Haeffele and Anne Hobson, Inside Leviathan: Lessons from Gordon Tullock’s Bureaucracy. November 2019.
- Russ McCullough, Are Economists Basically Immoral? Lessons from Paul Heyne. February 2020.
- Kevin Currie-Knight, Is State Education Justified? An Appreciation of E.G. West’s Education and the State. April 2020.
- Alberto Mingardi, Liberalism and the State. May 2020.
- A Reading Guide for this title is also available at #EconlibReads.
- Pierre Lemieux, Liberalism and Laissez-Faire in Albert Schatz’s Economic and Social Individualism. June 2020.
- Adam Martin, What’s the Economist’s Point of View? September 2020.
- Steven Horwitz, Competition and Entrepreneurship: The Fountainhead of the Contemporary Austrian School. December 2020.
- Stefanie Haeffele and Anne Hobson, Alternatives to a Burgeoning Bureaucracy: Lessons from Ludwig von Mises’s Bureaucracy. February 2021.
- Sarah Skwire, Liberty, Not Licensing: John Milton’s Areopagitica. August 2021.
- Walter Block, Ludwig von Mises’ Decisive Blows Against Interventionism, November 2021
- Pierre Lemieux, The State is Us (Perhaps!), But Beware of It! January 2022
- Adam Martin, Looking Back at the Austrian Revival, May 2022
- Rosolino Candela, The Entrepreneurial Justice of the Market Process, June 2022
- Caleb Fuller, Frédéric Bastiat: The Johnathan Swift of Economics, July 2022
- Rosolino Candela, Ludwig von Mises’ Socialism: A Proper Defense of Liberalism, August 2022
- Pierre Lemieux, Constitutional Democracy: Is Democracy Limited by Constitutional Rules? January 2023
- M. Scott King, Rules for Non-Radicals, March 2023
- Rosolino Candela, Can Government Intervention Work? April 2023
- Rosolino Candela, Interpreting Social and Economic Evolution, September 2023
- Pierre Lemieux, Princess Mathilde and the Immorality of Politics, April 2024.
- Rosolino Candela, Using Reason to Understand the Abuse and Decline of Reason, May 2024
- Art Carden, Helmut Schoeck’s Envy: A Theory of Human Behavior, June 2024
- Paul Forrester, Henry George: An Exploration of Some Consequences to Taxing Only Land, June 2024
- Alexander William Salter, Universal Economics: Necessary Reading for the Well-Trained Economist, July 2024
- Byron “Trey” Carson, Cost and Choice: Insights for Choosers, December 2024.
- Alain Marciano, What Should Economists Do? A Historical Perspective, January 2025.
