Recommended Reading

Selected List:

• Democracy in America – Tocqueville
• The Road To Serfdom – F. A. Hayek
• The Constitution of Liberty – F. A. Hayek
• Socialism – Ludwig von Mises
• Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy – Joseph Schumpeter
• Capitalism and Freedom – Milton Friedman
• The Roots Of American Order – Russell Kirk
• Reading the Right Books – Heritage Foundation
• Economics In One Lesson – Henry Haizlett
• The Humane Economy – Wilhelm Roepke
• Two Cheers For Capitalism – Irving Kristol
• The American Cause – Russell Kirk
• A Genius Reconsidered – Russell Kirk
• The Good Society – Walter Lipmann
• Land of Hope – Wilfred McClay

The Old Classics:

• The Dialogues – Plato
• The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
• The Politics  –  Aristotle
• Selected writings – Cicero
• Selected writings – Plato

Early Modern Classics:

• The Prince – Machiavelli
• The Wealth Of Nations – Adam Smith
• The Theory Of Moral Sentiments – Adam Smith
• The Spirit Of Laws – Montesquieu
• On Liberty – John Stuart Mill
• Two Treatises On Government – John Locke
• A Treatise Of Human Nature – David Hume  1739
• Democracy In America – Alexi de Tocqueville
• The Law – Frederic Bastiat
• Capital – Karl Marx
• Reflections on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke
• Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes  1651
• The Federalist Papers – Hamilton, Madison and Jay
• The US Constitution
• The Declaration of Independence – Thomas Jefferson 1776

Twentieth Century Classics:

• The Road To Serfdom – F. A. Hayek
• The Constitution of Liberty – F. A. Hayek
• Socialism – Ludwig von Mises
• Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy – Joseph Schumpeter
• Capitalism and Freedom – Milton Friedman
• The Good Society – Walter Lipmann
• Losing Ground – Charles Murray
• The Closing of the American Mind – Alan Bloom
• 1984 – George Orwell

Other Important Political Philosophers:

• David Ricardo
• Jean Baptiste Say
• Walter Bagehot 
• Algernon Sidney 
• Herbert Spencer 
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
• Immanuel Kant
• James Buchanan