favorite books on freedom

marketsurfer · Mar 10, 2003

what are your favorite books on personal freedoms ?? mine are as follows---

1. freedom and the law--- leoni

2. human action

3. capitalism-- a treatise on economics

4. man, economy and state

5. free to choose--- milton friedman

it is my belief that if everyone would read and understand these books, our society would be a much better place.

best,

surfer

Babak · Mar 10, 2003

anything by Ayn Rand (especially the masterpiece 'Atlas Shrugged')

SubEtha · Mar 10, 2003

This book was a real eye-opener to me.

The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
by Noreena Hertz

-SubEtha

MondoTrader · Mar 10, 2003

that's not a book written about freedom, its a book that says the private sector has too much freedom.

SubEtha · Mar 10, 2003

What??

It's obviously about freedoms.

What's your point?

Fluidity · Mar 10, 2003

Open Society and It's Enemies -- Vol 1 & 2... Karl Popper

While I don't pretend to understand everything I read in these two volumes, I absolutely loved them...

daniel_m · Mar 10, 2003

Quote from Babak:

anything by Ayn Rand (especially the masterpiece 'Atlas Shrugged')

she's good to get you thinking, and i'll admit to agreeing with her (and other 'freedomites') only because i like their conclusions, not because i find her arguments all that compelling..

she likes to think she's uncovered some natural law of the universe that says if man could be free to do whatever he wanted, abra cadabra, it would be the best possible world for everyone. yeah riiigght.

(i've read shrugged, fountainhead, virtue of selfishness, unknown ideal, so i'm pretty familiar with her)

Stardust · Mar 10, 2003

The Market For Liberty by Morris and Linda Tannehill