Books, Book Chapters, and Articles

• 2022 (forthcoming): Chapter on "Class" for The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism ed Matt Zwolinski (April, 2022).
• 2019: “The Paris School of Liberal Political Economy” in The Cambridge History of French Thought, ed. Michael Moriarty and Jeremy Jennings (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 301-12.
  • of courfse, the original draft was much longer: “The Paris School of Liberal Political Economy, 1803-1853” (March, 2018)
• 2017:
  • The book I co-edited of a collection of classical texts in classical liberal and libertarian class analysis, Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition (Palgrave Macmillan) is now out. See <http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319648934> for details.
  • “For Whom the Bell Tolls: The School of Liberty and the Rise of Interventionism in French Political Economy in the Late 19thC,” and Frédéric Passy, “The School of Liberty” in Journal of Markets and Morality, vol. 20, Number 2 (Fall 2017), pp. 383-412. Online edition <http://www.marketsandmorality.com/index.php/mandm/article/view/1298> and <http://www.marketsandmorality.com/index.php/mandm/article/view/1299>.
• 2016: A revised translation of Molinari's "Eleventh Soirée" from Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare; entretiens sur les lois économiques et defense de la propriété (1849, in Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States, ed. Aviezer Tucker, Gian Piero de Bellis (Routledge, 2016).
• 2015: “Broken Windows and House owning Dogs: The French Connection and the Popularization of Economics from Bastiat to Jasay,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy. Symposium on Anthony de Jasay (Summer 2015), vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 61-84. Online <https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1065>
  • of course the original draft was much longer and spanned the period "from Say to Jasay" (which has a nice ring to it): “Negative Railways, Turtle Soup, talking Pencils, and House owning Dogs”: “The French Connection” and the Popularization of Economics from Say to Jasay. (Oct. 2014)
• 2014: Jacques Bonhomme: L’éphémère journal de Frédéric Bastiat et Gustave de Molinari (11 juin – 13 juillet 1848). Recueil de tous les articles, augmenté d’une introduction. Ed. Benoît Malbranque (Paris: Institut Coppet, 2014). Available online at the Institut Coppet. This edition was made from the original copies and scans which I organised and which can be seen here.
• 2014: L'âge d`or du libéralisme français. Anthologie. XIXe siècle. Robert Leroux et David M. Hart. Préface de Mathieu Laine (Paris: Editions Ellipses, 2014). [facs. PDFs of 41 extracts]
• 2012: French Liberalism in the 19th Century: An Anthology. Edited by Robert Leroux and David M. Hart (London: Routledge, 2012). [facs. PDFs of 31 extacts] -
  • my master collection [79 extracts] in French in HTML and PDF [12 MB]
• 2011: The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat in 6 vols.
  • Vol. 1: The Man and the Statesman. The Correspondence and Articles on Politics (2011) [OLL]
  • Vol. 2: "The Law," "The State," and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850 (2012) [OLL]
  • Vol. 3: Economic Sophisms and "What is Seen and What is Not Seen” (March 2017) [OLL]
  • [I have completed work on vols. 4 "Miscellaneous Economic Writings" and vol. 5 "Economic Harmonies" but their future is uncertain.]
• 2008: my contributions on French liberals to The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, ed. Ronald Hamowy (Los Angeles: Sage, 2008. A Project of the Cato Institute). [Now online - here and at libertarianism.org.]

[See the archive.]

Papers

[DMH on the road ready to spread the word (June 2007)]

[Preparing the soil to plant a tree of liberty (Nov 2021)]

[Interview about the Bastiat translation project (Nov. 2013)]

[David on his "Farewell to the US World Tour" (Jan. 2020)]

[David telling the Australian Austrian economists about how Austrian the French political economists were (Apr 2012)]

[Telling the Cato Institute the Good News about Bastiat (Oct. 2011)]

• Some of my Blog posts are quite long and might be regarded as "short papers": See the full list here Reflections on Liberty and Power: Building a freer world one idea at a time
• Papers written but not given during Lockdown:
  • Jan. 2022: “The History of the “Great Liberal Emancipation” 1750-1914”
  • Nov. 2021: "J.B. Say and the Transformation of Restoration French Liberalism"
  • Oct. 2021: “On the Spread of (Classical) Liberal Ideas: Some Thoughts on Strategy”
  • Aug. 2021: I wrote a series of short "papers" on the "History of the Classical Liberal Tradition" in preparation for a lecture/seminar that was never given (it kept getting "Covid-cancelled". See my blog for details.
  • July 2021: "Pierre F. Goodrich's Goals and Strategy for the Liberty Fund: A Reconstruction"
  • May 2021:
    • “The Scandalous Neglect of Classical Liberal Sociology”
    • “The Socialist Critique of Private Property and Free Markets and the French Political Economists’ Response”
  • March 2021: The State of the Libertarian Movement after 50 Years (1970-2020): Some Observations
  • Dec. 2020:
    • "Vicesimus Knox (1752-1821): the Friend of Peace and the Foe of Despotism"
    • "Thomas Hobbes and the Iconography of the Leviathan State"
  • Nov. 2020: "An Historical Examination of Past and Present Strategies used to bring about Ideological and Political Change"
  • Oct. 2020;
    • "An Introduction to Classical Liberal/Libertarian Class Analysis"
    • James Mill and Jeremy Bentham on Class
  • Sept. 2020: a draft of a monograph on "Libertarian Class Analysis: An Historical Survey"
  • June 2020: "Gustave de Molinari and the Story of the Monopolist Grocer"
  • May 2020: "Bastiat on the Seen and the Unseen: An Intellectual History"
  • April 2020:
    • Jeremy Bentham on rule by "disinterested experts" or "the fallacy of authority" (1824)
    • Herbert Spencer on the State and "Sanitary Supervision" (1851)
    • Gustave de Molinari on Economists as the Bookkeepers of Politics: "Unfortunately, no one listens to economists" (1852)
• Jan. 2020: two papers given on my "Farewell to America" speaking tour:
  • “Bastiat’s Economic Harmonies: A Reassessment after 170 Years.” A Paper given to the Political Economy Project, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (7 Jan. 2020) in HTML and PDF.
  • “Bastiat’s Theory of Harmony and Disharmony.” A Paper given to the American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, Mass. (Jan. 2020) in HTML and PDF.
• Sept. 2019: “Was Molinari a True Anarcho-Capitalist?: An Intellectual History of the Private and Competitive Production of Security.” A paper given at the Libertarian Scholars Conference, New York City (28 Sept. 2019) in HTML and PDF.
• Sept. 2019: “Some Thoughts on an ‘Austrian Theory Of Film’: Ideas and Human Action in a Film about Frédéric Bastiat” (Sept. 2019). A paper given at the Libertarian Scholars Conference, New York City (28 Sept. 2019) in HTML and PDF.
• July 2019: “Introduction” and “Further Aspects of Molinari’s Life and Thought,” in Gustave de Molinari, *Evenings on Saint Lazarus Street: Discussions on Economic Laws and the Defense of Property* (Liberty Fund, forthcoming??).
• June 2019: "Pierre F. Goodrich's Goals and Strategy for the Liberty Fund: A Reconstruction" (Feb. 2018, 23 June 2019). HTML.
• April 2019: Paper on "The Conflicted Western Tradition: Some Provocative Pairings of Texts about Liberty and Power" for Association of Core Texts and Courses annual conference, April 2019, Santa Fe, NM.
• Nov. 2018: My introduction to an anthology of Molinari's writings on the "production of security" - “Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912): A Survey of the Life and Work of an “Économiste Dure” (A Hard-Core Economist)”
• October 2018: "Plunderers, Parasites, and Plutocrats: Some Reflections on the Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Classical Liberal Class Analysis" at the Libertarian Scholars Confrence in NYC 20 Oct. 2018.
• Aug. 2018: “Gustave de Molinari and The Seven Musketeers of French Political Economy in the 1840s”
• March, 2018: A new paper on "The Paris School of Liberal Political Economy, 1803-1853." which explores three generations of French economists from the publication of Say's Treatise in 1803 to the publication of the monumnetal Dictionnaire de l'économie politique (1852-53).
• Aug. 2018: “Gustave de Molinari and the Seven Musketeers of French Political Economy in the 1840s”
• July 2018: “Socialism: A Study Guide and Reader"
• June 2018: Introduction and Notes to the revised translation of Bastiat’s *The Law*
• Feb. 2018: Introduction and Notes to the revised translation of Bastiat’s *The State*
• Dec. 2017: My Introduction to and Translation of Frédéric Passy's speech on "The School of Liberty" (April, 1890) in the Acton Institute's Journal of Markets & Morality. A draft can be found here.
• June 2017:
  • “The Life of Jacques Bonhomme, Printer (1819–1865)”
  • “Gilbert-Urbain Guillaumin (1801-64) and the Guillaumin publishing firm (1837-1910): A Statistical Analysis of Seventy Years of Publication”
• Jan. 2017: ”’I, Pencil’: An Intellectual History”
• Nov. 2016: "Charles Coquelin, Gustave de Molinari, Frédéric Bastiat and the 'Austrian Moment' in French Political Economy 1845-1855: Molinari and the Private Production of Security." Paper given at the Southern Economic Association, Nov. 2016. [HTML - PDF - MS Word]
• Nov. 2016: Liberty Matters online discussion: David M. Hart, “Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Class” (Nov. 2016)
• Aug. 2016: Does a screenplay count as a "paper"?
  • ”Broken Windows”: A Screenplay about the Life and Work of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
  • with an accompanying “Illustrated Essay” to show what Paris and the world of the economists looked like
• May 2016: "Bastiat’s Theory of Class: The Plunderers vs. the Plundered" An introduction to a bilingual anthology of Bastiat’s writings on class and exploitation.
• 31 March, 2016: "The Struggle against Protectionism, Socialism, and the Bureaucratic State: The Economic Thought of Gustave de Molinari, 1845-1855”. A Paper given at the Austrian Economics Research Conference (31 March to 2 April 2016), The Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Full length paper (book-size) HTML and PDF. [Summary PDF and HTML]. Slides for Lecture [8 MB]
• 21-23 November, 2015: "Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Scribblers: An Austrian Analysis of the Structure of Production and Distribution of Ideas". A paper given at the Southern Economics Association, New Orleans, November 21-23, 2015. HTML and PDF.
• 2 Oct. 2015: "Reassessing Frédéric Bastiat as an Economic Theorist". A paper presented to the Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, October 2, 2015. HTML and PDF.
• July 2015: "A Reader’s Guide to the Works of Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)) (subsequenbtly revised several times)
• 14 April, 2015: "Literature IN Economics, and Economics AS Literature I: Bastiat's use of Literature in Defense of Free Markets and his Rhetoric of Economic Liberty." A paper given at the Association of Private Enterprise Education International Conference (April 12-14, 2015) , Cancún, Mexico. HTML and PDF.
• 14 April, 2015: "Literature IN Economics, and Economics AS Literature II: The Economics of Robinson Crusoe from Defoe to Rothbard by way of Bastiat." A paper given at the Association of Private Enterprise Education International Conference (April 12-14, 2015) , Cancún, Mexico. HTML and PDF.
• 28 March, 2015: "The Liberal Roots of American Conservatism: Bastiat and the French Connection." A paper given to the Philadelphia Society meeting March 27-29, 2015 on "The Roots of American Conservatism - and its Future". HTML and PDF.
• March 2015: Liberty Matters online discussion: David M. Hart, “On the Spread of (Classical) Liberal Ideas” (March 2015)
• Nov. 2013: “On Ricochets, Hidden Channels, and Negative Multipliers: Bastiat on Calculating the Economic Costs of ‘The Unseen’.” A Paper given at the “History of Thought” Session of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. Southern Economic Association 83rd Annual Meeting, November 23–25, 2013, Tampa, Florida. HTML.
• July 2011: “Opposing Economic Fallacies, Legal Plunder, and the State: Frédéric Bastiat’s Rhetoric of Liberty in the Economic Sophisms (1846–1850)”. A paper given at the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, July 2011.

[See the archive.]

[The hat I wear normally.]

[The hat I wear when talking about Liberty Fund.]

[The hat I wear when talking to American conservatives (especially Trumpkins).]

[The hat I wear when talking to Australia "liberals" (LINOs).]

Talks & Lectures

[Giving a "provocative lecture" at San Jose State (Apr. 2011)]

[Lecturing at FEE (July 2010)

[Lecturing on the Higg's "ratchet effect", Belmont College, CA]

• Jan. 2020: "An Introduction to the Classical Liberal Tradition: People, Ideas, and Movements". A talk given at the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, Perth (30 January, 2020). The PDF of my overheads and some Further Reading.
• Jan. 2020: "Understanding Class Divisions in Society: A Classical Liberal Approach". A talk organised by the Adam Smith Centre and the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, 20 Jan. 2020. [HTML] and [PDF]
• Sept. 2018: “The ‘Seen’ and the ‘Unseen’ Bastiat: Some Reflections on Editing his Work and his Continuing Relevance for Today,” Ostrom Workshop, Tocqueville Lecture Series, 28 Sept. 2018, Indiana University, IN.
• July 2018: Overhead for a talk on "How to kill the Marxist zombie once and for all: or, how you can learn to stop worrying about S&M on campus," YAL Conference, Washington D.C. 26 July, 2018.
• 25 Oct. 2017: "An Evening of Conversation: Frédéric Bastiat's The Law". Introduced by David M. Hart (25 October, 2017) [PDF]
• 28 Aug. 2017: "On teaching economics as "a Way of Thinking" by telling your students good stories." Talk given in Tucson, AZ. Key Concepts | Common Fallacies | More Thoughts
• 27 July, 2017: "When the Revolution comes, on what side of the Chamber/House should the Libertarians sit?" Talk given to the Young Americans for Liberty National Convention, Washington, D.C. [HTML]
• 10 March, 2017: "Frédéric Bastiat: The 'Unseen' Radical". The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture given at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, AL. [PDF slides] [HTML with images and my notes] [Youtube video]
• 13-19 June, 2015: IHS Advanced Studies Summer Seminar, “Liberty & Scholarship: Challenges and Critiques” Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA.:
  1. "The Classical Liberal Tradition - A History of Ideas and Movements over 400 Years" - outline and readings - [PDF 12 MB] and [HTML]
  2. "Images of Liberty and Power: State Propaganda and its Subversion" [PDF 25 MB]
  3. "Competing Visions of the Future: Socialist and Classical Liberal" - [PDF 6MB] and [HTML]
• 12 May, 2015: "Who put the 'Bastiat' in the Bastiat Society?". A talk given to the Bastiat Society of Nashville, TN. Text of Lecture (HTML) - Overhead Images (PDF)
• July 2014: “’Unfortunately, hardly anyone listens to the Economists’: The Battle against Socialism by the French Economists in the 1840s”. Talk given to the Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney, 8 July 2014.

[See the archive.]

[Reminiscing about the Workers Party and the Australian struggle for liberty (Nov. 2011)]

My Anthologies and Editions of some Key Texts

[1st issue of JDE 1842]

[1st issue of Le Censeur]

2nd ed. of Bastiat's Oeuvres complètes]

[300+ Leveller Tracts]

I began this website with the idea of gathering in one place some of the key works in the classical liberal tradtion which were hard to find, particularly works by French classical liberals and political economists. One of my goals (in June 2010) was to put online as many of the volumes of the Journal des Économistes (1842-1940) as I could find, making sure that pages were not missing (a serious problem with Google Books in the early years). To date, the collection spans the years 1842 to 1889. This was done partly to assist me in editing and translating the collected works of Frédérid Bastiat and a key work by Gustave de Molinari. From there, the Digital Library of Liberty and Power has only grown. The aim is to one day have the texts in both searchable HTML and facs. PDF versions. Some of the more noteworthy collections in the Library include the following:

(1.) The French classical liberals and political economists. [Index page and Index page]

1. Charles Comte (1782-1837) and Charles Dunoyer (1786-1862) -
   1. an anthology of articles from their journals Le Censeur (1814-1815) and Le Censeur européen (1817-1819) by Charles Comte, Charles Dunoyer, and some of their close collaborators
   2. their larger works on historical sociology and the emergence of free institututions
      1. Comte's major works Traité de législation (1826-27) and Traité de la propriété (1834):
         1. the 4 volume Traité de législation (1826-27) - vol. 1 [HTML and facs. PDF], vol. 2 [HTML and facs. PDF], vol. 3 [HTML and facs. PDF], vol. 4 [HTML and facs. PDF]; and all 4 volumes in 1 [HTML];
         2. and the follow up 2 volume Traité de la propriété (1834) [not yet in HTML; facs. PDF vol. 1 and vol. 2]
      2. Dunoyer's major works which are really an expansion of his ideas over a period of three decades:
         1. L'Industrie et la morale considérées dans leurs rapports avec la liberté (1825); [facs. PDF]
         2. Nouveau traité d'économie sociale (1830) [facs. PDF vol.1 - vol.2 ]
         3. De la liberté du travail (1845) [facs. PDF vol.1 - vol.2 - vol.3]
2. Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) -
   1. to commemorate the bicentennial of his birth and the centennial of his death I put together some anthologies of his writings (in French mostly, but some in English) with accompanying introductions. I wrote my undergaduate Honours thesis on Molinari back in 1979 and had hoped to see the transaltion of his pathbreaking book Les Soirées de la rue Saint-Lazare (1849) published in 2019 to also commemorate the centennial of his death (and the 40th anniversary of my thesis), but this was not to be.
      1. “The Bicentennial Anthology of the Writings of Gustave de Molinari on the State (1846-1911)” - the original 2012 version (French facs. PDFs only); the November 2018 version in HTML with my introduction to his life and work, “Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912): A Survey of the Life and Work of an “Économiste Dure” (A Hard-Core Economist)” [online], and the texts in French but the brief introductions to each text by me are in English.
      2. “The Collected Articles by Gustave de Molinari from the Dictionnaire de l'économie politique (1852-53)” - The introduction by me is in English; the articles are in French.
      3. “Molinari’s Collected Writings on the Production of Security (1846-1901)" (Aug., 2019). A sample of these in English can be found in the Appendices of my paper “Was Molinari a true Anarcho-Capitalist?: An Intellectual History of the Private and Competitive Production of Security”, Libertarian Scholars Conference, NYC (Sept,. 2019)
   2. his great work on "anarcho-capitalism
   3. his multivolume works of historicl sociology
3. Fréderic Bastiat (1801-1850) - after having dismissed Bastiat as a witty journalist but a light-weight theorist I came to change my thinking after starting work on the translation project of his Collected Works (2011-)
   1. The Oeuvres compètes of Bastiat (Guillaumin ed.) in French [HTML] with my arrangement of the texts in chronological order and a Reader’s Guide to his works.
   2. an anthology of writings by Bastiat on the State and Class with a lengthy introduction by me.
   3. his collection of anti-sociailist pamphlets written during the Second Republic
4. The Guillaumin publishing firm and their wonderful Dictionary of Political Economy
5. other French libeals and political economists too numerous to mention here

(2.) The Leveller Tracts Project

1. Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics (1638-1660). Over 300 tracts by the Levellers (both the better known ones like Overton, Lilburne, and Walwyn, along with many other lesser known ones) and their critics (both Parliamentary and royalist). A summary of the collection, and a chronological list of the texts. And two Anthologies of Leveller writings:
   1. Agreements of the People, Petitions, Remonstrances, and Declarations (1646-1659)
   2. The Levellers and the Origins of Anglo-American Constitutionalism

(3.) Other English and American classical liberals and radical individualists

1. James Mill, The Political Writings of James Mill: Essays and Reviews on Politics and Society, 1815-1836
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published under the Superintendence of his Executor, John Bowring (1838-1843). 11 vols. - with a new comprehensive table of contents of his writings
3. The Works of Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) - in chronological order and with a thematic list of works as well
4. Thomas Gordon, Political Discourses on Tacitus and Sallust: Tyranny, Empire, War, and Corruption (1728-1744)

(4.) Anthologies of Other Texts I created for the OLL from its collection (I do not know what their current status is)

1. The OLL Reader: An Anthology of the Best of the Online Library of Liberty - an anthology of some of the best material in the OLL collection; there are 90 items in the main collection covering 12 topics providing an overview of classical liberal and free market thinking with another 160 items in additional expanded sections
2. Quotations about Liberty and Power: 600 quotations with brief bios and analyses of their significance; organised by 30 topics
3. Key Documents of Liberty: over 100 legal documents from the Code of Hammurabi to the early 19th century
4. A Pocket Guide to Political and Civic Rights (1215-1830) - based upon the Cato Institute's Pocket U.S. Constituion but with a broader scope.