Reading List

I've been asked way, way, way too many times to suggest a reading list for those who want to get a better handle on the ideas we discuss and promote here at NOT PC.

So here it is. I suggest you either start with the articles and work up to the books, or if you want to save time then just start your own reading with Atlas Shrugged.

1. ARTICLES:

• 'It's Your Body' - Bernard Darnton
• 'It's Your Money!' - Fulton Huxtable
• 'Rights ' - Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• 'Government' - Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• 'Force ' - Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• 'Libertarianism' - Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• 'Petition of the Candle-Makers' - Frederic Bastiat (in Economic Sophisms)
• 'Man's Rights' - Ayn Rand (in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal)
• 'The Nature of Government' - Ayn Rand (in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal)
• 'Economics in One Lesson: Chapter One: The Lesson' - Henry Hazlitt (in Economics in One Lesson)
• 'Economics in One Lesson: Chapter Two: The Broken Window' - Henry Hazlitt (in Economics in One Lesson)
• 'What is Capitalism?' - Ayn Rand (in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal)
• 'The Physiology of Plunder' - Frederic Bastiat (in Economic Sophisms)
• 'The Incredible Bread Machine' - RW Grant
• 'Some Fundamental Insights Into the Benevolent Nature of Capitalism' - George Reisman
• 'The Roots of War'- Ayn Rand (in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal)
• 'The Decline & Fall of American Conservatism' - Brad Thompson (in The Objective Standard)
• 'Philosophy: Who Needs It' - Ayn Rand ( in Philosophy: Who Needs It )
• 'Racism' - Ayn Rand, (in The Virtue of Selfishness )
• 'Education and the Racist Road to Barbarism' - George Reisman
• 'Shark versus Boy' - Tibor Machan
• 'The Anti-Industrial Revolution' - Ayn Rand (in Return of the Primitive:The Anti-Industrial Revolution )
• 'The Toxicity of Environmentalism' - George Reisman
• 'Environmentalism Refuted'- - George Reisman
• 'What is Objective Law?' - Harry Binswanger (in The Intellectual Activist)
• Cue Card Libertarianism - series at NOT PC (see the index on the right-hand sidebar)
• 'Waitangi: One-Law-For-All Day' - Peter Cresswell
• 'It's Time to Drive a Stake Through the Heart of the RMA' [pdf] - Peter Cresswell
• 'Take Back the Schools!' - Peter Cresswell
• 'The Comprachicos' - Ayn Rand (in Return of the Primitive:The Anti-Industrial Revolution )
• Globalization: The Long-Run Big Picture. - George Reisman
• 'Immigration and the 'Statue of Bigotry'' - NOT PC
• 'Immigration plus Welfare State equals Police State' - George Reisman
• 'Fighting terrorism requires legalizing immigration' - James Valliant
• 'The solution to 'illegal immigration'' - Harry Binswanger
• 'Immigration Quotas vs. Individual Rights: The Moral and Practical Case for Open Immigration' - Harry Binswanger

2. FURTHER READING

Subscribe to 'The Free Radical' magazine and read NOT PC, and head to your library to pick up:

• The Capitalist Manifesto : The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire - Andrew Bernstein
  
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - Ayn Rand
• The Discovery of Freedom - Rose Wilder Lane
• The Government Against the Economy - George Reisman
• All the Trouble in the World - PJ O'Rourke
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (the most important book you'll ever read. Described by the New York Times as as "one of the most influential business books ever written." If Ayn Rand won't convince you, then nobody can. )
• Moral Rights & Political Freedom - Tara Smith
• Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being - Tibor Machan
• The Commanding Heights - Daniel Yergin
• Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman
• What's God Got to Do With It: Robert Ingersoll on Free Speech, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State - Tim Page, ed.
• Why Businessmen Need Philosophy - Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff

FURTHER READING ON ...

**PERSONAL FREEDOM:

• 'Victimless Crimes' - Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do - Peter McWilliams
• Drug War Addiction - Sheriff Bill Masters
• Republican Party Reptile - PJ O'Rourke
• Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It - Craig Biddle

**ECONOMIC FREEDOM:

• 'Banking'- Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• 'Economics'- Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• 'Inflation'- Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• 'Laissez-Faire' - Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• 'Money'- Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt [PDF]
• Economics for Real People - Gene Callahan [PDF]
• Austrian Economics: A Reader - ed. by Richard M. Ebeling
• Government Against the Economy - George Reisman
• Eat the Rich - PJ O'Rourke
• Economic Sophisms - Frederic Bastiat
• Prosperity Denied: How the Reserve Bank Harms New Zealand - Bob Jones
• Look What They've Done to Our Money - Murray Rothbard
• The Power to Destroy: Shocking Revelations of IRD Harassment and Abuse - Rodney Hide
• 'Great Myths of the Great Depression' - Lawrence Reed [sixteen-pages in PDF]
• 'Saving the Depression: A New Look at World War II' - Mark Skousen
• 'Zoning & Other Land-Use Controls' - Norman Karlin (in Resolving the Housing Crisis, ed., by M. Bruce Johnson)
• 'The Economics of Building Codes & Standards' - Peter F.Colwell & James B. Kau(in Resolving the Housing Crisis, ed., by M. Bruce Johnson)
• Land Use Without Zoning - Bernard Siegan
• The Denationalisation of Money - FA Hayek
• Antitrust: The Case for Repeal - Dominic Armentano
• Human Action - Ludwig von Mises
• Socialism - Ludwig von Mises
• Capitalism - George Reisman

**ENVIRONMENT:

• Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature's Favorites - Tibor Machan
• Return of the Primitive:The Anti-Industrial Revolution - Ayn Rand, ed., by Peter Schwartz
• Free Market Environmentalism - Terry Anderson & Donald Leal
• Common Sense & Common Law for the Environment - Bruce Yandle
• Property Rights in Defence of Nature - Elizabeth Brubaker
• The Skeptical Environmentalist - Bjorn Lomborg

**INTELLECTUAL SELF-DEFENCE:

• Explaining Postmodernism - Stephen Hicks
• Philosophy: Who Needs It - Ayn Rand

**HISTORY:

• "For the New Intellectual" in For the New Intellectual - Ayn Rand
• The God of the Machine - Isabel Paterson
• The Noblest Triumph: Property & Prosperity Through the Ages - Tom Bethell
• Commanding Heights - Daniel Yergin
• Jefferson - Albert Jay Nock
• The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn
• Modern Times - Paul Johnson
• From Dawn to Decadence - Jacques Barzun
  

**LAW:

• 'Common Law'- Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• 'Constitution'- Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• The Law - Frederic Bastiat

**SOCIAL FREEDOM:

• 'Welfarism'- Cue Card Libertarianism, NOT PC
• Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society - Tibor Machan
• A Life of One's Own - David Kelley
• Vision of the Anointed - Thomas Sowell

**ENTREPRENEURIALISM:

• Prime Movers - Edwin Locke
• Full Circle - Bob Jones
• The Zulu Principle - Jim Slater
• The Predator's Ball - Connie Bruck
• Chocolate Wars: Inside the Secret Worlds of Mars and Hershey - Joel Glenn Brenner
• Barbarians At The Gate - Bryan Burrough
• Richard Branson's autobiography
• The Kid Stays In The Picture - Robert Evans
• Return to Go - Jim Slater
• Billionaire - Ivan Fallon
• Tiny Rowland: Rebel Tycoon - Tom Bower
• Education of a Speculator - Victor Niederhofer
• The Prize - Daniel Yergin
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand ("one of the most influential business books ever written" - New York Times)

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