Free Books

All SFL affiliated student groups and other organizations dedicated to liberty are able to receive free books on topics of liberty! If you are interested in starting up a reading club through your organization and would like free books for members to use in the club, please email info@studentsforliberty.org, providing the following information.  We are currently reviewing orders for the Fall 2009 semester.

  • Student group name
  • Student group email
  • Contact person name
  • Contact person email
  • Contact person phone number
  • Name of book requested or type of book you are looking for (e.g. either “Marxism Unmasked, by Ludwig von Mises” or “Austrian economics books”)
  • Number of books you are requesting (should be the estimated number of participants in your reading club).
  • A one paragraph description of why you are requesting books and what the books will be used for
  • Mailing address books can be shipped to (no P.O. boxes)

As proof that the books are being used as well as for SFL publicity purposes, we require all groups that receive them to send in pictures of students in the reading club with their books. Student groups will not receive future book donations if we do not see this evidence of their academic engagement with liberty. Groups may request as many books they would like throughout the school year, but SFL cannot guarantee that all requests will be met.

The following titles are available for student groups to select:

  1. Doti, James and Lee, Dwight, Market Economy; A Reader
  2. Frederic Bastiat, Economic Harmonies
  3. Frederic Bastiat, Economic Sophisms
  4. Frederic Bastiat, Selected Essays on Political Economy
  5. Henry Hazlitt, The Foundations of Morality
  6. Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson
  7. Ludwig von Mises, Marxism Unmasked
  8. Ludwig von Mises, The Free Market and its Enemies
  9. Leonard E. Read, Anything That’s Peaceful

New Online Resources

In addition to the hard copies listed above, a number of free online resources are also available.

The Online Library of Liberty: The OLL is a project of the Liberty Fund, who’s purpose is to to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.  The Online Library of Liberty contains work from some of the greatest writers of the liberty tradition.

The Foundation for Economic Education: FEE’s mission is to offer the most consistent case for the “first principles” of freedom: the sanctity of private property, individual liberty, the rule of law, the free market, and the moral superiority of individual choice and responsibility over coercion.  They offer a number of free PDFs of classics such as Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson and Leonard Reed’s Anything That’s Peaceful.  You can also download free copies of FEE’s magazine The Freeman here.

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Comments (2)

  • #1 by James at November 25th, 2009

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    Where's the Rothbard?

    My favorite thus far, For A New Liberty: http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp

  • #2 by Who else? at January 19th, 2010

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    The Rothbard is too radical and long term for the current donors and for the career strategies of the men in charge at the prominent DC think tanks and FEE. To establish a solid donor base and avoid doing more difficult work, you need someone more middle of the road. We're actually pretty lucky Mises is there at all. They teach Mises with a big ***. You won't find anyone teaching much Rothbard withing a LONG birth of Washington DC, he's just too taboo! You have to ask Mises Institute for Rothbard, and the only thing they can afford to give away for free is knowledge and some nominal travel subsidies now and then! This too shall pass.

    ***Mises is for a few ideas only. We do not discuss or deal with the long term impacts of his scholarship!