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Voluntaryist thinkers:
Étienne de La Boétie (1530 – 1563)
- The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, 1576 *
Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887)
- No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, 1867/1870 *
- Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty, 1875 *
Paul Émile de Puydt (1810 – 1891)
- Panarchy, 1860 *
Gustave de Molinari (1819 – 1912)
- The Utopia of Liberty, 1848 *
- The Production of Security, 1849 *
- The Society of Tomorrow, 1899 *
Herbert Spencer (1820 – 1903)
- Social Statics, 1851 *
- The Man versus the State, 1884 *
- Principles of Ethics, 1897 *
Auberon Herbert (1838 – 1906)
- The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State and Other Essays, 1885 *
Benjamin Tucker (1854 – 1939)
- Individual Liberty; selections from the writings of B. R. Tucker, 1926 *
Franz Oppenheimer (1864 – 1943)
- The State, 1908 *
Albert J. Nock (1873 – 1945)
- Our Enemy, the State, 1935 *
Frank Chodorov (1887 – 1966)
- One is a Crowd: Reflections of an Individualist, 1952 *
- The Rise and Fall of Society, 1959 *
- Out of Step: The Autobiography of an Individualist, 1962 *
Leonard Read (1898 – 1983)
- Anything That’s Peaceful, 1964 *
Robert LeFevre (1911 – 1986)
- The Nature of Man and His Government, 1959 *
- Limited Government: Hope or Illusion?, 1963
- The Role of Private Property in a Free Society, 1963
- Anarchy versus Autoarchy, 1965
- Does Government Protection Protect?, 1978
Anthony de Jasay (1925)
- The State, 1985 *
- Choice, Contract, Consent: a Restatement of Liberalism, 1991
- Against Politics: on Government, Anarchy and Order, 1997
- Justice and its Surroundings, 2002 *
Murray Rothbard (1926 – 1995)
- Man, Economy, and State, 1962 *
- What Has Government Done to Our Money, 1963 *
- Power and Market, 1970 *
- For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, 1973/1978 *
- Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays, 1974 *
- The Ethics of Liberty, 1982 *
Morris and Linda Tannehill
- The Market for Liberty, 1970 *
Jan Narveson (1936)
- You and the State, 2008
Walter Block (1941)
- Defending the Undefendable, 1976 *
- Privatization of Roads and Highways, 2009 *
Lew Rockwell (1944)
- Speaking of Liberty, 2003 *
- The Left, The Right, and The State, 2008 *
David D. Friedman (1945)
- The Machinery of Freedom, 1973,1989
- Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life, 1996
- Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters, 2000 *
- Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World, 2008
Samuel Edward Konkin III (1947 – 2004)
- The New Libertarian Manifesto, 1980 *
Bruce L. Benson (1949)
- The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State, 1990
- To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice, 1998
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949)
- A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, 1989 *
- Democracy: The God That Failed, 2001
- The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, 1993,2006 *
Mary Ruwart (1949)
- Healing Our World In an Age of Aggression, 1993,2003 *
George H. Smith (1949)
- Justice Entrepreneurship in a Free Market, 1978 *
- Justice Entrepreneurship Revisited: A Reply to Critics, 1979 *
Randy E. Barnett (1952)
- The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law, 1998
Thomas DiLorenzo (1954)
- The Myth of Natural Monopoly, 1996 *
- How Capitalism Saved America, 2004
Roderick Long (1954)
- Equality: The Unknown Ideal, 2001 *
Stephan Kinsella (1965)
- Against Intellectual Property, 2008 *
Stefan Molyneux (1966)
- On Truth: The Tyranny of Illusion, 2007 *
- Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics, 2007 *
- Everyday Anarchy, 2008 *
- Practical Anarchy, 2008 *
- How (Not) To Achieve Freedom, 2008 *
Marc Stevens (1968)
- Adventures in Legal Land, 2007
Wes Bertrand (1969)
- Complete Liberty, 2007 *
Bryan Caplan (1971)
- The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, 2007 *
- Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes, 2008 *
Edward Stringham (1976)
- Market Chosen Law, 1999 *
Robert P. Murphy (1976)
- Chaos Theory, 2002 *
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, 2007
Peter Leeson (1979)
- Contracts without Government, 2003 *
- The Laws of Lawlessness, 2009 *
And:
Robert Higgs (1944)
Joseph Sobran (1946)
Doug Casey
Justin Raimondo (1951)
Penn Jillette (1955)
Peter Boettke (1960)
Steven Horwitz (1965)
Jesús Huerta de Soto (1965)
Jörg Guido Hülsmann (1966)
Thomas Woods (1972)
Patri Friedman (1976)
Collaborative works and compilations:
- Private Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism vs. Coercion, 1996 *
Edited by J. Wilson Mixon, Jr.
- I Must Speak Out: The Best of The Voluntaryist 1982-1999, 1999 *
Edited by Carl Watner ( )
- Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition, 2001
Edited by Carl Watner ( ) with Wendy McElroy ( )
- The Voluntary City, 2002
Edited by David T. Beito ( ), Peter Gordon, Alexander Tabarrok ( )
- The Myth of National Defense, 2003 *
Edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe ( )
- Anarchy, State and Public Choice, 2006
Edited by Edward Stringham ( )
- Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice, 2007
Edited by Edward Stringham ( )
- Property, Freedom & Society – Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, 2009 *
Edited by Jörg Guido Hülsmann ( ) and Stephan Kinsella ( )
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Voluntaryist thinkers:
Étienne de La Boétie (1530 – 1563)
- The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, 1576 *
Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887)
- No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, 1867/1870 *
- Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty, 1875 *
Paul Émile de Puydt (1810 – 1891)
- Panarchy, 1860 *
Gustave de Molinari (1819 – 1912)
- The Utopia of Liberty, 1848 *
- The Production of Security, 1849 *
- The Society of Tomorrow, 1899 *
Herbert Spencer (1820 – 1903)
- Social Statics, 1851 *
- The Man versus the State, 1884 *
- Principles of Ethics, 1897 *
Auberon Herbert (1838 – 1906)
- The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State and Other Essays, 1885 *
Benjamin Tucker (1854 – 1939)
- Individual Liberty; selections from the writings of B. R. Tucker, 1926 *
Franz Oppenheimer (1864 – 1943)
- The State, 1908 *
Albert J. Nock (1873 – 1945)
- Our Enemy, the State, 1935 *
Frank Chodorov (1887 – 1966)
- One is a Crowd: Reflections of an Individualist, 1952 *
- The Rise and Fall of Society, 1959 *
- Out of Step: The Autobiography of an Individualist, 1962 *
Leonard Read (1898 – 1983)
- Anything That’s Peaceful, 1964 *
Robert LeFevre (1911 – 1986)
- The Nature of Man and His Government, 1959 *
- Limited Government: Hope or Illusion?, 1963
- The Role of Private Property in a Free Society, 1963
- Anarchy versus Autoarchy, 1965
- Does Government Protection Protect?, 1978
Anthony de Jasay (1925)
- The State, 1985 *
- Choice, Contract, Consent: a Restatement of Liberalism, 1991
- Against Politics: on Government, Anarchy and Order, 1997
- Justice and its Surroundings, 2002 *
Murray Rothbard (1926 – 1995)
- Man, Economy, and State, 1962 *
- What Has Government Done to Our Money, 1963 *
- Power and Market, 1970 *
- For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, 1973/1978 *
- Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays, 1974 *
- The Ethics of Liberty, 1982 *
Morris and Linda Tannehill
- The Market for Liberty, 1970 *
Jan Narveson (1936)
- You and the State, 2008
Walter Block (1941)
- Defending the Undefendable, 1976 *
- Privatization of Roads and Highways, 2009 *
Lew Rockwell (1944)
- Speaking of Liberty, 2003 *
- The Left, The Right, and The State, 2008 *
David D. Friedman (1945)
- The Machinery of Freedom, 1973,1989
- Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life, 1996
- Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters, 2000 *
- Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World, 2008
Samuel Edward Konkin III (1947 – 2004)
- The New Libertarian Manifesto, 1980 *
Bruce L. Benson (1949)
- The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State, 1990
- To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice, 1998
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949)
- A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, 1989 *
- Democracy: The God That Failed, 2001
- The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, 1993,2006 *
Mary Ruwart (1949)
- Healing Our World In an Age of Aggression, 1993,2003 *
George H. Smith (1949)
- Justice Entrepreneurship in a Free Market, 1978 *
- Justice Entrepreneurship Revisited: A Reply to Critics, 1979 *
Randy E. Barnett (1952)
- The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law, 1998
Thomas DiLorenzo (1954)
- The Myth of Natural Monopoly, 1996 *
- How Capitalism Saved America, 2004
Roderick Long (1954)
- Equality: The Unknown Ideal, 2001 *
Stephan Kinsella (1965)
- Against Intellectual Property, 2008 *
Stefan Molyneux (1966)
- On Truth: The Tyranny of Illusion, 2007 *
- Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics, 2007 *
- Everyday Anarchy, 2008 *
- Practical Anarchy, 2008 *
- How (Not) To Achieve Freedom, 2008 *
Marc Stevens (1968)
- Adventures in Legal Land, 2007
Wes Bertrand (1969)
- Complete Liberty, 2007 *
Bryan Caplan (1971)
- The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, 2007 *
- Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes, 2008 *
Edward Stringham (1976)
- Market Chosen Law, 1999 *
Robert P. Murphy (1976)
- Chaos Theory, 2002 *
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, 2007
Peter Leeson (1979)
- Contracts without Government, 2003 *
- The Laws of Lawlessness, 2009 *
And:
Robert Higgs (1944)
Joseph Sobran (1946)
Doug Casey
Justin Raimondo (1951)
Penn Jillette (1955)
Peter Boettke (1960)
Steven Horwitz (1965)
Jesús Huerta de Soto (1965)
Jörg Guido Hülsmann (1966)
Thomas Woods (1972)
Patri Friedman (1976)
Collaborative works and compilations:
- Private Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism vs. Coercion, 1996 *
Edited by J. Wilson Mixon, Jr.
- I Must Speak Out: The Best of The Voluntaryist 1982-1999, 1999 *
)
Edited by Carl Watner (
- Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition, 2001
) with Wendy McElroy ( 
)
Edited by Carl Watner (
- The Voluntary City, 2002
), Peter Gordon, Alexander Tabarrok ( 
)
Edited by David T. Beito (
- The Myth of National Defense, 2003 *
)
Edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (
- Anarchy, State and Public Choice, 2006
)
Edited by Edward Stringham (
- Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice, 2007
)
Edited by Edward Stringham (
- Property, Freedom & Society – Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, 2009 *
) and Stephan Kinsella ( 
)
Edited by Jörg Guido Hülsmann (