The following titles are works published by Liberty Fund which are also available online. A full list of titles published by Liberty Fund can be found in our online catalog. https://oll.libertyfund.org/collections/books-published-by-liberty-fund en This 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 social being.” Ranging widely over literature, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, Professor Schoeck— a distinguished sociologist and anthropologist—elucidates both the constructive and destructive consequences of envy in social life. Perhaps most important, he demonstrates that not only the impetus toward a totalitarian regime but also the egalitarian impulse in democratic societies are alike in being rooted in envy. Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:07:49 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/schoeck-envy-a-theory-of-social-behaviour https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/schoeck-envy-a-theory-of-social-behaviour The questions of where to locate, in whose hands to place, and how to exercise the state’s powers of deadly military force inform a perennial topic in political theory and coalesce into a recurrent problem in political practice. Liberty Fund presents Writings on Standing Armies, a newly collected, authoritative edition of the most important pamphlets on the “standing armies” controversy of 1697–98. In addition, these writings express a subtext that is of equal and enduring importance: the transforming effects exerted by the prolonged possession of power on individuals and administrations. Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:00:43 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/writings-on-standing-armies https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/writings-on-standing-armies In Historical Law-Tracts, Kames combined the natural law framework that underlies his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion with the “conjectural,” or philosophical, approach to history that would receive its fullest treatment in his Sketches of the History of Man to offer a history of law as a history of the progress of mankind from savage to civil society. Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:06:20 -0400 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/historical-law-tracts https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/historical-law-tracts Pierre F. Goodrich (1894-1973) was a successful Indiana businessman and lawyer who founded Liberty Fund in 1960. His aim was to promote study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/pierre-f-goodrich https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/pierre-f-goodrich Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention, that of providing for the common defence will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace…The welfare of our country is the great object to which our cares and efforts ought to be directed. (FROM 169: FIRST ANNUAL MESSAGE, Friday, January 8, 1790) Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:54:07 -0400 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/george-washington-war-peace https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/george-washington-war-peace I see my way in the constitution. I cannot in a compromise. A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the constitution is stable. It is a rock. On it we can stand, and on it we can meet our friends from the non-slaveholding States. It is a firm and stable ground, on which we can better stand in opposition to fanaticism, than on the shifting sands of compromise. Let us be done with compromises. Let us go back and stand upon the constitution! (FROM: SPEECH ON THE INTRODUCTION OF HIS RESOLUTIONS ON THE SLAVE QUESTION) Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:35:10 -0400 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/john-calhoun-compromises https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/john-calhoun-compromises This May’s Birthday Essay is in honor of the political journalist and statesman Friedrich Gentz.  Though born a commoner, he called himself von Gentz after he was knighted by the Swedish crown in 1804.  Gentz made an intellectual journey over the course of his life, from revolutionary liberal, to Whiggish “conservative liberal,” to reactionary practitioner of Realpolitik, all in the context of the Napoleonic age. Mon, 20 May 2024 10:49:01 -0400 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/reading-room/2024-05-20-mentzel-may-birthday-friedrich-von-gentz https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/reading-room/2024-05-20-mentzel-may-birthday-friedrich-von-gentz This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This one comes from James Buchanan’s book *The Limits of Liberty* in which he warns of the dangers posed by an ever growing democratic and bureaucratic government which would soon become a “Leviathan” state. Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:11:19 -0400 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/reading-room/buchanan-boll-10-james-m-buchanan-the-threat-of-leviathan-1975 https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/reading-room/buchanan-boll-10-james-m-buchanan-the-threat-of-leviathan-1975 “T’was Mr. Locke that struck all fundamentals, threw all order and virtue out of the world...” Lord Shaftesbury Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:25:28 -0400 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/reading-room/2024-05-09-shaftesbury-s-theory-of-a-moral-sense-sets-the-direction-of-the-british-enlightenment-part-2 https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/reading-room/2024-05-09-shaftesbury-s-theory-of-a-moral-sense-sets-the-direction-of-the-british-enlightenment-part-2 lf5987_figure_007.jpg 213.03 KB The moral sense is “predominant...inwardly joined to us, and implanted in our nature...a first principle in our constitution...” Lord Shaftesbury Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:04:15 -0400 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/reading-room/2024-05-07-donway-shaftesbury-part-one https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/reading-room/2024-05-07-donway-shaftesbury-part-one Romero was a lawyer in the Colegio de Madrid and translated Frédéric Bastiat’s Economic Harmonies into Spanish. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/francisco-perez-romero https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/francisco-perez-romero Robinson edited the Liberty Fund’s edition of the Collected Works of Arthur Seldon. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/colin-robinson https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/colin-robinson Sir Frederick Pollock (1845–1937) was educated at Eton before going to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was admitted to the bar in 1871 and to the Privy Council in 1911. He taught at the University of Oxford from 1883 to 1903, where he was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/sir-frederick-pollock https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/sir-frederick-pollock François Hotman (1524-1590) was a French Protestant political theorist who was part of the monarchomach group who were opponents of absolute monarchy. Hotman trained as a lawyer but later turned to literature and political theory. He was a professor of jurisprudence, history, and literature at a number of European universities and was an important figure in the humanist movement. Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:20:16 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/francois-hotman https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/francois-hotman Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was a Dutch scholar and jurist whose legal masterpiece, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the law of war and peace) (1625), contributed significantly to the formation of international law as a distinct discipline. In addition to that work, Grotius wrote a number of literary pieces of lasting merit, including Sacra (a collection of Latin poems) and the drama Christus Patiens. Like Erasmus, Grotius sought to end the religious schism and urged the papacy to reconcile with the Protestant faiths. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/hugo-grotius https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/hugo-grotius Friedrich von Gentz (1764-1832) came under the influence of the classical liberal philosopher Immanuel Kant at the University of Königsberg and at first welcomed the outbreak of revolution in France in 1789. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/friedrich-von-gentz https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/friedrich-von-gentz One of the authors in the volume of anti-socialist essays edited by Thomas Mackay and published by the Liberty and Property Defence League. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/charles-fairfield https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/charles-fairfield Related Links: Source: This biographical information comes from the editor's notes to Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism before Adam Smith, ed. Henry C. Clark (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003). Dudley North was born the son of the fourth Baron North in 1641. It is said that he was stolen by a beggar-woman for his clothes as a child but was soon recovered. He showed no taste for book learning early in life and was apprenticed to an English merchant named Davis, who made him agent to the Turkish trade at Smyrna in 1661 and Constantinople in 1662. By all accounts, he was a vigorous and successful factor, giving life to what had been a rather sluggish trade there. He was made treasurer of the Turkey Company, and there was apparently some talk of his becoming ambassador of England to Constantinople.   Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:20:28 -0400 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/north-sir-dudley-1641-1691 https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/north-sir-dudley-1641-1691 Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was a leading constitutional lawyer and Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford University from 1882 to 1909. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/albert-venn-dicey https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/albert-venn-dicey Henry C. Clark has been a visiting professor in the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth College since 2014. Before then, he taught at Canisius College (where he became professor of history), Norwich University, Lawrence University, Tulane University, and Clemson University. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0500 nonadult https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/henry-c-clark https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/henry-c-clark