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/