Further Reading
 

Private Property, Freedom of Contract, and Prosperity  -->

Leonard Read, I, Pencil  www.fee.org/pdf/books/I,%20Pencil%202006.pdf

Laura E. Huggins & Terry Anderson, Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity  www.hoover.org/publications/books/3009301.html  (webbed book)

Stephen Moore & Julian Simon, The Greatest Century That Ever Was: 25 Miraculous Trends of the Past 100 Years  www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1223

Theodore Caplow, et al., The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America 1900-2000  www.pbs.org/fmc/book.htm  (webbed book)

The Economic Freedom of the World Project  www.freetheworld.com/index.html

Tom Bethell, The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages (St. Martin’s Press, 1998)

Arthur Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World (Crown Publishers, 2001)

Brink Lindsey, Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism (Wiley, 2002)
 


Economics -->

Russell Roberts, Ten Key Ideas: Opening the Door to the Economic Way of Thinking  www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Guides/TenKeyIdeas.html
Gregory Mankiw, 10 Principles  www.swlearning.com/economics/mankiw/principles2e/principles.html
Guy Sorman, Economics Does Not Lie  www.city-journal.org/2008/18_3_economics.html (another list of ten key economic concepts)
Keystone Economic Principles  www.powellcenter.org/Keystone.asp (nine this time)

Arnold Kling, Learning Economics (2004)  arnoldkling.com/econ/book/contents.html (webbed book)

Dwight Lee, Free Enterprise: The Economics of Cooperation (2002) dallasfed.org/educate/free/index.html

James Gwartney, et al., Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity (St. Martin’s Press, 2005)  www.commonsenseeconomics.com/
 

Common Law -->

Bruce L. Benson, The Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law, 55 Southern Economic Journal 644 (1989), mailer.fsu.edu/~bbenson/SEJ1989.pdf

John Hasnas, Hayek, the Common Law, and Fluid Drive, 1 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 79 (2005)  faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/NYUFinal.pdf  (especially sections I and II)

Norman F. Cantor, Imagining the Law: Common Law Foundations of the American Legal System (HarperCollins, 1997)

Richard A. Epstein, Simple Rules for a Complex World (Harvard U. Press, 1995)
 


Economic Analysis of Law  -->

Interview of Ronald Coase (1997)  www.reason.com/news/show/30115.html

Cento Veljanovski, The Economics of Law (IEA, 2007)  www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=book&ID=391 (webbed book)

Thomas Miceli, The Economic Approach to Law (Stanford U. Press, 2d ed. 2008)  www.sup.org/economiclaw/  (big site supporting this textbook)

Ward Farnsworth, The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking About the Law (U. of Chicago Press, 2007)  www.thelegalanalyst.com/
 


Constitutional History  -->

The Founders’ Almanac  www.heritage.org/research/features/almanac/welcome.html

Thomas G. West & William A. Schambra, The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics  www.heritage.org/Research/Thought/fp12.cfm

Lawrence W. Reed, Great Myths of the Great Depression (1981)  fee.org/library/books/great-myths-of-the-great-depression/

Raoul Berger, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment (2d ed. 1997)  olldownload.libertyfund.org/ToC/0003.php  (webbed book)

Robert H. Bork, ed., “A Country I Do Not Recognize”: The Legal Assault on American Values (2005)  www.hooverpress.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1110  (webbed book)

Edwin Meese, ed., The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (Heritage Foundation, 2005)

James W. Ely, Jr., The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights (3d ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 2007)

Richard Epstein, How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (Cato Institute, 2006)
 

Public Choice Theory  -->

Interview of James Buchanan (2004)  www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/region_focus/2004/spring/pdf/interview.pdf

Interview of Gordon Tullock (2003)  www.fcpp.org/main/publication_detail.php?PubID=583

Pierre Lemieux, The Public Choice Revolution (2004)  www.pierrelemieux.org/artpublicchoice.pdf

Randall G. Holcombe, Liberty and Democracy as Economic Systems (2002) www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_06_3_holcombe.pdf

Randall G. Holcombe, Government: Unnecessary But Inevitable (2004) www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_08_3_holcombe.pdf

Daniel B. Klein, The People's Romance: Why People Love Government (as Much as They Do) (2005)  www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_10_1_1_klein.pdf

Gordon Tullock, et al., Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice (Cato, 2002)
 

My web pages  -->

“British/American Legal Timeline”  faculty.samford.edu/~medebow/Timeline.html (includes links to most of the historical documents mentioned in class)

“A Hedgehog’s Legal Glossary”  faculty.samford.edu/~medebow/Glossary.html

“Legal Process” course page  faculty.samford.edu/~medebow/LegalProcess.html

General links page  faculty.samford.edu/~medebow/web.htm
 

Blogs -->

Café Hayek  cafehayek.typepad.com/

EconLog  econlog.econlib.org/

The Becker-Posner Blog  www.becker-posner-blog.com/
 


Online Encyclopedias and Document Libraries -->

The Library of Economics and Liberty  www.econlib.org/ including
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics  econlib.org/library/CEE.html

Professor Lawrence Solum’s Legal Theory Lexicon  lsolum.typepad.com/legal_theory_lexicon/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

A Chronology of US Historical Documents  www.law.ou.edu/hist/

Ashbrook Center Document Library  teachingamericanhistory.org/library/

Yale Law Library’s Avalon Project  avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

Internet History Sourcebooks Project  www.fordham.edu/halsall/

Online Library of Liberty  oll.libertyfund.org/