The Back Door
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Meaningful research requires reading and trying to understand what other people think. Every person has something to say, something to add to the puzzle called life. Only through this process of acquiring knowledge do people blossom.
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Notice: This page probably will always be under construction. In other words, if the title is not hyperlinked then I have not yet created a downloadable document.
Frédéric Bastiat
The Law HTML (one web page) (117 KB)
The Law Zipped PDF (215 KB)
The State HTML (one web page) (30 KB)
The State Zipped PDF (105 KB)
What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen HTML (one web page) (110 KB)
What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen Zipped PDF (241 KB)
William B. Greene
Mutual Banking
Auberon Herbert
The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State
Joshua K. Ingalls
Economic Equities
Sinclair Lewis
It Can’t Happen Here
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
What is Property?
Eric Frank Russell
. . . And Then There Were None HTML (184 KB)
. . . And Then There Were None PDF (2.7 MB)
The Great Explosion HTML (one web page) (413 KB)
The Great Explosion HTML (13 web pages)
The Great Explosion PDF (623 KB)
Herbert Spencer
The Right to Ignore the State HTML (one web page) (27 KB)
The Right to Ignore the State Zipped PDF (107 KB)
Lysander Spooner
Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking Zipped PDF (242 KB)
Natural Law Zipped PDF (121 KB)
The Constitution of No Authority
Jonathon Swift
Gulliver’s Travels
Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience HTML (one web page) (56 KB)
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Zipped PDF (119 KB)
Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom of God is Within You (this is not a religious polemic!)
Mark Twain
The Gilded Age (coauthored with Charles Dudley Warner) Zipped PDF (1.44 MB)
Thorstein Veblen
Voltaire
Candide
Dictionnaire Philosophique
Josiah Warren
Equitable Commerce