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Christmas Break Liberty Reading list

Matt Cockerill
Dec 16, 2009 at 7:54 AM
By Matt Cockerill

While we're on the subject, I'd like to share my Holiday Reading list. Yes -- it's a bit scant. But I want to actually, um, read all the stuff I say I will.

Realizing Freedom by Tom G. Palmer (big fan of Palmer's and can't wait to open a signed, free copy!)

Anarchy State and Utopia by Robert Nozick. (This seems to be one of "the" books that all libertarians need to read, but I have only had time to skim it this semester)

Brush up on the libertarian arguments for natural law in "The Ethics of Liberty." (reread this one many times, but still find it the most useful book in advocating anarcho-capitalism).

What are you guys planning on reading over break?

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Nozick is good -- I wrote a giant paper on him junior year.  It will make more sense, though, if you first read at least a short paper on justice from John Rawls, since Nozick wrote that in response to his giant book on the subject.

Sadly, my break consists of a long weekend, but in this general time of the year I'm reading Mises' Liberalism and Hayek's Fatal Conceit.

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Submitted by Bonnie Kristian on December 16, 2009.

I FINALLY get to read End the Fed! After that, I'm probably going to read Liberal Fascism, and I'm thinking about re-reading The Mystery of Banking so I'll be better prepared for Econ 203 next semester. 

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Submitted by Andrew Smith on December 16, 2009.

I'm reading Organization Theory by Kevin Carson, which points out how the Austrians, specifically Rothbard and Mises, completely misunderstood the origins and nature of corporations.

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Submitted by Elliot Engstrom on December 16, 2009.

I'm re-reading The Revolution and plan on finishing up End the Fed. I asked for Ron Paul's reading list for Christmas.

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