CLARK ALDRICH
Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know about Schools and Rediscover Education (2011)
ANDREW J. BACEVICH
America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (2016)
FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT
The Law (1850)
TIMOTHY P. CARNEY
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse (2019)
RICHARD C. CORNUELLE
Reclaiming the American Dream: The Role of Private Individuals and Voluntary Associations (1965)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845); My Bondage and My Freedom (1855); Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)
WILLIAM EASTERLY
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Poor (2014)
VIKTOR E. FRANKL
Man’s Search for Meaning (1946)
MILTON AND ROSE FRIEDMAN
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (1980)
HOWARD GARDNER
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983)
JONATHAN HAIDT
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006); The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (with Greg Lukianoff, 2018)
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
“Competition as a Discovery Procedure” (1968); “The Use of Knowledge in Society” (1945); The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988); Law, Legislation, and Liberty (1973); The Constitution of Liberty (1960)
ROBERT HIGGS
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1987)
THOMAS S. KUHN
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
DON LAVOIE
National Economic Planning: What Is Left? (1985)
JOHN LOCKE
The Second Treatise on Civil Government (1689)
ABRAHAM MASLOW
Eupsychian Management (1965) aka Maslow on Management (1998); Toward a Psychology of Being (1962)
DEIRDRE MCCLOSKEY
The Bourgeois Era trilogy (2006)
MAURICIO L. MILLER
The Alternative: Most of What You Believe about Poverty Is Wrong (2017)
LUDWIG VON MISES
Human Action (1949); Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (1957)
CHARLES MURRAY
In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government (1988)
MICHAEL POLANYI
“The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory” (1962); Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (1958)
KARL POPPER
“Science as Falsification” (1963)
MATT RIDLEY
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge (2015); The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010)
TODD ROSE
The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness (2016); Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment (2018)
NATHAN ROSENBERG AND L.E. BIRDZELL JR.
How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World (1986)
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942)
THOMAS SOWELL
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (1987); Knowledge and Decisions (1980)
ADAM THIERER
Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom (2014)
PAUL WEAVER
The Suicidal Corporation (1988)