Books

Mar 13, 2012

Mark Pennington. Robust Political Economy

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Mark Pennington. Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar, 2011). Where Pennington is at his best is in making the proper comparison between the market and the actual state, rather than the market and an ideal state. He does an outstanding job in articulating [...]


Feb 13, 2012

David Goodway. Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow

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David Goodway.  Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow:  Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward (PM Press edition, 2012). I’ll start by saying I found this a very engaging read.  I learned a lot of interesting new things about people whose thought I had already encountered, like Morris, Huxley and Orwell, and [...]


Dec 20, 2011

Scott Crow. Black Flags and Windmills

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Kevin Carson reviews Scott Crow, Black Flags and Windmills


Feb 17, 2011

The Conscience of an Anarchist

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Anarchy happens when people organize their lives peacefully and voluntarily— without the aggressive violence of the state. This simple but powerful book explains why the state is illegitimate, unnecessary, and dangerous, and what we can do to begin achieving real freedom. Paperback, 129 pages.


Aug 15, 2010

The Pocket Subversion Edition: Spooner’s The Constitution of No Authority

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As Roderick Long once suggested, the Center has published a handy pocket version of Lysander Spooner’s classic critique (evisceration, really) of the U.S. Constitution — The Constitution of No Authority, available for $6.40 from Lulu.com.


Jan 22, 2010

The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low Overhead Manifesto

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Kevin Carson’s third book manuscript is available in unfinished form…


Jan 5, 2009

Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective

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This book applies the economic principles of individualist anarchism, as developed in Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, to the study of the large organization.


Oct 20, 2008

Studies in Mutualist Political Economy

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This book is an attempt to revive individualist anarchist political economy, to incorporate the useful developments of the last hundred years, and to make it relevant to the problems of the twenty-first century. We hope this work will go at least part of the way to providing a new theoretical and practical foundation for free market socialist economics.


Oct 17, 2008

Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice

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“This nearly 700-page book is quite simply THE definitive collection on free-market anarchism. Its forty chapters include contributions from Randy Barnett, Bruce Benson, Bryan Caplan, Roy Childs, Anthony de Jasay, David Friedman, John Hasnas, Hans Hoppe, Jeff Hummel, Don Lavoie, Murray Rothbard, the Tannehills, and many more. (Full disclosure: it also contains a chapter by [...]