Benjamin Tucker’s journal Liberty was the foremost organ of 19th-century American individualist anarchism, and a major influence on Murray Rothbard and modern libertarianism; contributors to Liberty included such prominent free-market luminaries as Lysander Spooner, Auberon Herbert, and Vilfredo Pareto. (For background, see articles by Wendy McElroy and Carl Watner.)
Regrettably, copies of Liberty have been damnably hard to find – until now. The amazing Shawn Wilbur has just finished posting the entire run of Liberty in PDF form on his website. Details here.
The interface is bare-bones at the moment, but Shawn has plans for text-search capacity and other cool stuff.
As he urges: “download, download, download!” to ensure that “there is never again any question of Liberty not being available.”
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What a fabulous, heroic act! This is just such a wonderful contribution. It certainly needs to be databased with table of contents etc.
Good to see this sort of thing happening.
such prominent free-market luminaries as Lysander Spooner, Auberon Herbert, and Vilfredo Pareto.
One of these things is not like the others. I thought Pareto was, if not fascist, then at least on not too hostile terms with fascism.
Some intellectuals are like wine; they improve with age.
Pareto, I’m afraid, was like beer.
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“Pareto, I’m afraid, was like beer.”
Dr. Long, I’d like some ‘amplification’ of this point. My limited reading of Pareto indicates that he was quite prophetic in his analysis of the managerial elite.
I just meant that Pareto was more libertarian in his youth (a disciple of Molinari, in fact!) but became a (qualified) supporter of fascism later in life. That doesn’t mean he didn’t have any valuable ideas during his footsie-with-the-fascists period.
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