Public domain liberty and freedom based books

[dc0de]

I work for a publisher of primarily finance and economic books. I'd really like to suggest a few public domain books to my managers that we can republish. It would make a change from all these horrible "the free market is dead" style books we've been doing.

So, what are your favourite classic & public domain works?

Thanks

[TimeLady Victorious]

wealth of nations?

[dc0de]

wealth of nations?

Actually we did that one a few years ago.

[MacFall]

Look up the works of Richard Cantillon. He came before Smith, and is arguably more free market.

[TimeLady Victorious]

Also, I'm sure the works of Lysander Spooner are in the public domain now...

[NotYourSlave]

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

http://jim.com/econ/

[dc0de]

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

http://jim.com/econ/

That might be available freely online but it is not in the public domain, as far as I can tell (although this is rather difficult to determine concretely) and we do have to follow current IP/copyright laws.

Thank you for the suggestions, I will investigate.

[BobRobertson]

So, what are your favourite classic & public domain works?

Lysander Spooner

Henry Thoreau

Etienne de la Boetie,
    The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Friedric Bastiat

And I would love to see the entire essay from which this quote comes:

"There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape. . . .
 [The anarchists] have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection;
 they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that
 follow from authority....
 As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils,
 liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use
 of force except against the invader."
 --- Benjamin Tucker

[Level 20 Anklebiter]

Look up the works of Richard Cantillon. He came before Smith, and is arguably more free market.

Turgot too.

[MacFall]

Look up the works of Richard Cantillon. He came before Smith, and is arguably more free market.

Turgot too.

Yes, certainly.

Come to think of it, I don't see why people think Smith was such a great market theorist. His dabbling with the labor theory of value set the science of economics back for centuries. If we'd skipped Adam Smith and gone straight from Cantillon and Turgot to the marginalist revolution, we'd be so much better off today. Hell, we might have skipped Marx right along with him.

[Cognitive Dissident]

The Mises Institute, at mises.org, has a ton of stuff on their web site.  I don't know if it's public domain, but since it's all being dished out free of charge, I'll bet they'd be reasonable if not completely free.  There's a ton of great Rothbard material, for example.

[MacFall]

Everything published at mises.org is held under a creative commons license, so it can be printed by anyone. But be warned that Jeff Tucker (editor in chief of mises.org) is constantly on the lookout for rival publishers, and he really loves competing with them. Or, beating them to be precise. So expect that whatever you publish will be followed shortly by a very fancy hardcover from the LvMI at a very low price.

My advice, if you print anything that the LvMI has published online, would be to pick something relatively obscure.