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Most of the resources listed here concern the history of liberalism, in the original sense.
Ashford, Nigel & Stephen Davies (Eds.). 2011.
A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Routledge Revivals)
. Routledge.
Boaz, David. 2015.
The Libertarian Reader
. Simon and Schuster.
Conway, David. 1995.
Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal
. LondonMacmillan.
Cooke, Charles C.W. 2015. “
On Not Stealing Linguistic Scraps
“. Intercollegiate Review, July 29.
Davies, Stephen. 2013.
The History of Individualism
. Youtube video.
Davies, Stephen. 2012.
British Individualism and Libertarianism the Past and Today
. University of Essex Liberty League. Youtube video.
Davies, Stephen. 2006.
The Triumph of Classical Liberalism
. Institute for Humane Studies. Youtube video.
Davies, Stephen. 2006.
The Decline of Classical Liberalism
. Institute for Humane Studies. Youtube video.
Ekirch Jr, Arthur. A. 2009 [1955].
The Decline of American Liberalism
. Independent Institute.
Epstein, Richard. A. 2014.
The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government
. Harvard University Press.
Friedman, Milton. 1956 “
The Basic Principles of Liberalism
”. Lecture at Wabash College.
Friedman, Milton. 2013. “
What is Classical Liberalism?
”. Free to Choose Network
Gaus, Gerald. & Shane Courtland. 2010. “
Liberalism
”. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence. 1900. “
The Eclipse of Liberalism
”. The Nation 71(April 9): 105-106.
Green, David. 1992. The Language of Politics in America: Shaping Political Consciousness from McKinley to Reagan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Greenleaf, W.H. 1983.
The British Political Tradition. Vol. 1: The Rise of Collectivism. London
: Methuen.
Greenleaf, W.H. 1983.
The British Political Tradition. Vol. 2: The Ideological Heritage
. London: Methuen.
Hart, David.
Webpage
. A website devoted to resources on liberalism, especially French liberalism.
Hayek, Friedrich. A. 1982 [1973]. “
Liberalism
”. New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas. Routledge.
Hayek, Friedrich. A. 1960. “
Why I Am Not a Conservative
”. The Constitution of Liberty. University of Chicago Press.
Higgs, Robert. 2009. “
The Decline of American Liberalism
”. Video, ReasonTV.
Hirst, Francis W. 1931. Gladstone as Financier and Economist. London: Ernest Benn.
Hume, David. 1987.
Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals
. Edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Clarendon Press.
Hume, David. 1987.
Essays Moral, Political, Literary
. Edited by E. F. Miller. Liberty Fund.
Klein, Daniel B. 2014. “
The Origin of ‘Liberalism
’”. The Atlantic website. February 13.
Klein, Daniel B., with Ryan Daza. 2014.
Lost Language, Lost Liberalism
. Adam Smith Institute.
Klein, Daniel B. 2015. “
A Plea Regarding ‘Liberal
’“. Intercollegiate Review, July 27. (Also published as an article in Modern Age, Summer 2015: 7-16.
Klein, Daniel B. 2015. “‘
Liberal’ — Step One: A Reply to John Zmirak and Charles C.W. Cooke
“. Intercollegiate Review, July 30.
Klein, Daniel B. 2017.
Liberalism 1.0: The Genealogy of Adam Smith’s Liberalism
. Universidad Francisco Marroquín lecture video.
Klein, Daniel B. 2019.
10 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Call Leftists “Liberal
”. Intercollegiate Studies Institute. April 23.
Liberty Fund:
Online Library of Liberty: A Collection of Scholarly Works About Individual Liberty
.
Liberty Fund:
Library of Economics and Liberty
.
McCloskey, Deirdre. N. 2006.
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
. University of Chicago Press.
McCloskey, Deirdre. N. 2010.
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
. University of Chicago Press.
McCloskey, Deirdre N. 2019.
Why Liberalism Works
. Yale University Press.
Mises, Ludwig. 2016 [1927].
Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
. VM eBooks.
Smith, Adam. 1982 [1790].
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
. Edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie. Oxford University Press.
Smith, Adam. 1976 [1776].
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
. Edited by R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and W. B. Todd. Oxford University Press.
Smith, Adam. 1978.
Lectures on Jurisprudence
. Edited by R. L. Meek, D. D. Raphael and P. G. Stein. Oxford University Press.
Smith, Bruce. 1888.
Liberty and Liberalism: A Protest against the Growing Tendency toward undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise and the Rights of Property
. Longmans, Green, and Co.
Smith, George H. 2013.
The System of Liberty: Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism
. Cambridge University Press.
Tucker, Jeffrey and Daniel Klein. 2015. Why We Should Call Ourselves Liberals. January 11.
Youtube
.
Williamson, Kevin D. 2014. “
Whose Liberalism? The curious career of two ideas and one word
.” National Review Online. December 29.
Klein, Daniel B. 2022.
The Liberal Christening
.
Svensk Tidskrift
, July 22.
Matson, Erik W. 2022.
What’s Liberal about Adam Smith’s ‘Liberal Plan’?
Southern Economic Journal
89:2: 593–610.
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