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David M. Hart: Papers and Some Other Things

 

 

[Created: 18 Oct. 2010]
[Updated: 10 November, 2024]

Introduction

Below is a list of papers, book chapters, articles, lectures, anthologies, and other things which I have written and compiled over the years. They are arranged in chronological order and the table can be sorted by clicking on the column headings. A second click will reverse the order. To date (October 2024) there are 125 items, of which 69 are papers and 17 are anthologies of texts

When not writing about classical liberaiism my other activity is putting online some of the key texts of the classical liberal / libertarian tradtion. See the texts in "The Guillaumin Collecdtion". To date there are 195 texts in the collection.

I also blog occasionally at "Reflections on Liberty and Power" <http://davidmhart.com/wordpress/>.

Abbreviations used:

  • Art = papers about art and propaganda
  • Bastiat = papers about Frédéric Bastiat
  • CC and CD = papers about Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer
  • CL = papers about classical liberalism
  • Class = papers about classical liberal class analysis
  • Gordon = papers about Thomas Gordon
  • HET = History of Economic Thought
  • Levellers = papers about the Levellers
  • Mill = papers about James Mill
  • Molinari = papers about Gustave de Molinari
  • Other/Misc. = hard to classify
  • Spooner = papers about Lysander Spooner
  • War = papers about war and peace
  • Web = papers about website design
  • WT = the Western Tradition

 

 

My Papers and some other things (click the heading to sort the table)

 

  DATE KIND TITLE SUBJECT AREA ONLINE
2024 Anthology An Anthology of Leveller "Agreements" (1647-1649). A collection of 8 Leveller "agreements" and petitions: An Anthology of Leveller "Agreements" (1647-1649). Edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2024). Levellers HTML
2024 Anthology An Anthology of the Works of Richard Overton (1641-1649). This contains 23 of his pamphlets: Richard Overton, An Anthology of the Works of Richard Overton (1641-1649). Edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2024). Levellers HTML
2024 Anthology An Anthology of Declaration of Rights and Liberties. This is a collection of 27 key documents in the history of the evolution of our individual, political, and economic rights: On Limiting the Power of the State: A Collection of Petitions, Charters, Decrees, and Declarations of Rights and Liberties (1215-1848). Edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2024). CL HTML
2024 Paper "Grappling with Economic Complexity: The Idea of "Ceteris Paribus" or "Toutes Choses d'ailleurs Égales" in the Thought of J.S. Mill and Frédéric Bastiat" to be present at the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference 26-27 September, 2024, at Alphacrucis University College, Parramatta, Sydney NSW.  There is also an extensive Appendix with examples of the use of the term by the economists under discussion. Bastiat HTML
2023 Anthology An Anthology of the Articles by Gustave de Molinari in the 'Dictionnaire de l'économie politique' (1852-53). Edited as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of Molinari's birth. With 5 biographical articles and 25 "principle articles". The introduction by me is in English; the articles are in French: The Collected Articles from the Dictionnaire de l'Économie politique (1852-53). Edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2023). Molinari HTML
2023 Anthology An Anthology of Writings by Bastiat on Plunder, Class, and the State. An anthology of 13 items on the topic of plunder and class analysis with a lengthy introduction by me: Frédéric Bastiat, La Spoliation, la Classe, et l’État (Plunder, Class, and State): An Anthology of Texts (1845-1851). Edited and with an Introduction by David M. Hart (Sydney: The Pittwater Free Press, 2023). Bastiat HTML
2023 Anthology An Antholoigy of Molinari's Wrtings on the Future of Liberty. Three pieces by Molinari (in French) on where he thought the world was heading at the start of the 20th century. It should be read along with my 2000 paper on this topic: Gustave de Molinari, Thoughts on the Future of Liberty (1901-1911). Edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2023). Molinari HTML
2023 Paper "A Classical Liberal approach to understanding ‘Class’ and ‘Class Conflict’ in Australia" (July, 2023) - a paper prepared but not given at Friedman 2023 Conference, Sydney, 7-9 July 2023. See also the lecture slides [PDF]. Class HTML
2023 Paper "Smith on the ‘Great System of Government’ and its Political Machine," in` Adam Smith and why he matters today. Essays on the relevance of Smith after 300 years. Paul Oslington and David M. Hart. With a Foreword by Peter Kurti (CIS Occasional Paper 199. December 2023), pp. 8-15. Online at the CIS. HET HTML
2023 Paper "Putting the ‘Political’ back into Adam Smith’s Political Economy: Smith on Power and Privilege, Faction and Fanaticism, and Corruption and Conspiracies". A paper given at the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia conference (20 Sept. 2023) held at the University of Canberra. HET HTML
2023 Paper "Vocabulary Clusters in the Thought of Adam Smith: Smith’s Theory of Ranks, Class, and Government". Written to accompany my paper on this topic. Also in PDF. HET HTML
2023 Anthology An Anthology of Adam Smith's writings on Class and the State. A collection of 73 extracts from Smith's writings to accompany my paper on this topic. The items come from AS's three main works - TMS (1759, 1790) - 41 items, LJ (1763 and 1766) - 8 items, and WN (1776) - 24 items: Adam Smith on Class and the State: An Anthology. Edited by David M. Hart (Sydney: Pittwater Free Press, 2023). HET HTML
2023 Paper "From Bayeux to Guernica: The Depiction of Power, Destruction, and Suffering in War Art" (18 Aug. 2023). The slides I used in my talk. Art PDF
2023 Paper "Bastiat's Rhetoric of Liberty: The Use of Language and Literature in his Economic Writings" (July 2023). This paper is an expansion and reworking of three papers I have written on Bastiat "rhetoric of liberty" and is use of literature in his major writings on economics, namely the Economic Sophisms and Economic Harmonies. Bastiat HTML
2022 Collection "The Guillaumin Collection" - Beginning in September 2022 I began the "Guillaumin Collection" of the great books of liberty. These are "near replica" editions of the first edition or last revised edition in the author's lifetime of classic works about liberty. As of October 2024 there are 200 titles by 93 authors. CL HTML
2022 Paper "Vocabulary Clusters in the Thought of Frédéric Bastiat" (2022, 2024). A collection of "concept maps" or "vocabulary clusters" of some of Bastiat's key ideas such as Class, Disturbing Factors, Harmony and Disharmony, Human Action, Plunder, and the Seen and the Unseen. Bastiat HTML
2022 Paper "Bastiat on the Seen and The Unseen: An Intellectual History" (2022). Bastiat HTML
2022 Chapter "Class" - a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism. Edited by Matt Zwolinski and Benjamin Ferguson (Routledge, 2022) , pp. 291-307/ Class PDF
2022 Paper "The Paris School of Liberal Political Economy, 1803-1853". A Paper given at the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Annual Conference, Melbourne VIC, 22 Sept. 2022. Conference Paper in HTML and PDF. The link to the right is to the revised version of the paper. HET HTML
2022 Paper "The Prospects for Liberty: Some Thoughts on Goals, Threats, and Strategies" CL HTML
2022 Lecture "The Classical Liberal Tradition: A 400 Year History of Ideas and Movements". This is a summary of the 4-part lecture series I have written on the history of the CL / Libertarian tradition. CL HTML
2022 Blogs "The Classical Liberal Tradition: Blog Posts (2021-2022)". A list of 44 blog posts I wroten on this topic as part of a series of lectures which I gave. CL HTML
2022 Paper "Further Thoughts on War Films and the Study of History" (Jan. 2022) War HTML
2021 Anthology An Anthology of the Writings of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer (1814-1819). A collection of 35 articles from their journals "Le Censeur" (1814-1815) and "Le Censeur européen" (1817-1819). CC and CD HTML
  2021 Anthology An Anthology of Works by Lysander Spooner. A collection of 14 of his letters and pamphlets: The Selected Works of Lysander Spooner (1850-1886) (2021). Spooner HTML
  2021 Anthology An Anthology of the Writings of Thomas Gordon: Tyranny, Empire, War, and Corruption: The Political Discourses on TacAtus and Sallust (1728-1744). Edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2021). Gordon HTML
2021 Paper "Frédéric Bastiat on Plunder, Class, and the State" (2021). This essay was written to accompany an anthology of Bastiat's writings on plunder, class, and the state. Bastiat HTML
2021 Paper "J.B. Say and the Transformation of Restoration French Liberalism" (2021, 2024) HET HTML
2020 Video "Who was Bastiat? Interview with David Hart (video)" (Jan. 23, 2020) - an interview recorded at the American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, Mass. [Online elsewhere]
 Bastiat HTML
2020 Paper "The Urgent Need for Intellectual Change" (April 24, 2020) - at the AIER website [Online elsewhere]. CL HTML
2020 Paper "Gustave de Molinari on Economists as the Bookkeepers of Politics: 'Unfortunately, no one listens to economists'" (23 April, 2020) Molinari HTML
2020 Paper "Herbert Spencer on the State and 'Sanitary Supervision' (1851)" (23 April, 2020) - my intro and chapter 28 "Sanitary Supervision" in Social Statics. CL HTML
2020 Paper "Jeremy Bentham on rule by "disinterested experts" or "the fallacy of authority" (1824)" (23 April, 2020) - my intro and an extract from Political Fallacies. CL HTML
2020 Paper "Pandemic Policy in One Page" (May 29, 2020) - at the AIER website [Online elsewhere]. Also publiushed in a booklet Urgent Report on Pandemics and Freedom (American Institute for Economic Research, 2020), pp. 3-5 . CL HTML
2020 Paper "Gustave de Molinari and the Story of the Monopolist Grocer" (3 June, 2020) Molinari HTML
2020 Paper "What is to be Done? The Rise of Hygiene Socialism and the Prospects for Liberty" (Dec. 7, 2020) - at the AIER website [Online elsewhere] and at my blog. CL HTML
2020 Paper "Reassessing Bastiat’s Economic Harmonies" after 170 Years" (Jan. 2020). A paper given to the Political Economy Project, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Bastiat HTML
2020 Paper "The Art of the Levellers": a discussion of a selection the "cover art" and title pages of Leveller tracts. Art HTML
2020 Paper "Thomas Hobbes and the Iconography of the Leviathan State" (2020) Art HTML
  2020 Anthology An Anthology of the Writings of James Mill 1. The Political Writings of James Mill: Essays and Reviews on Politics and Society, 1815-1836 (2020). 28 items including his entries for the Encyclopedia Britannica. <EnglishClassicalLiberals/MillJames/Anthology/index.html> Mill HTML
  2020 Anthology An Anthology of the Writings of James Mill 2. An Anthology of Essays written for the Reviews (1815-1836). A collection of 16 articles. Mill HTML
2020 Paper "An Introduction to Classical Liberal/Libertarian Class Analysis" (Oct. 2020). A longer version of the Routledge chapter. Class HTML
2020 Paper "Libertarian Class Analysis: An Historical Survey" (Sept. 2020). A very much longer version of the Routledge chapter. Class HTML
2020 Anthology An Anthology of Classical Liberal Writing on Class Analysis. A fairly rough collection of key texts in an "iFrame" format. "Plunderers, Parasites, and Plutocrats: An Anthology of Classical Liberal Writing on Class Analysis from Boétie to Buchanan." Table of Contents only. Class HTML
2019 Paper "Reassessing Bastiat's Economic Harmonies after 160 Years" - Liberty Matters No. 40 (May 2019): David M. Hart, "Reassessing Bastiat's Economic Harmonies after 160 Years" (May 2019). Participants: Donald J. Boudreaux, Guido Hülsmann, and Joseph T. Salerno. [Online elsewhere] Bastiat HTML
2019 Paper "Report on The Online Library of Liberty Website" (July 2019) Web HTML
2019 Paper "Some Thoughts on an ‘Austrian Theory of Film’: Ideas and Human Action in a Film about Frédéric Bastiat". A paper given at the Libertarian Scholars Conference, The Kings College, NYC (Sept. 2019). Bastiat HTML
2019 Paper "Bastiat's Theory of Harmony and Disharmony: An Intellectual History". A paper given to the American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, Mass. (Jan. 2020). Bastiat HTML
2019 Paper "Frédéric Bastiat's Economic Harmonies: A Reassessment after 170 Years". A Paper given to the Political Economy Project, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (Jan. 2020). Bastiat HTML
2019 Chapter "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. HET PDF
2019 Anthology An Anthology of the Writings of Molinari on the Production of Security (1846-1901). A selection of these have been translated into English. They can be found in the Appendix of my paper "Was Molinari a true Anarcho-Capitalist? Molinari HTML
2019 Paper "Was Molinari a true Anarcho-Capitalist?: An Intellectual History of the Private and Competitive Production of Security". A paper presented at the Libertarian Scholars Conference, NYC (Sept. 2019). It includes an appendix with 8 extracts of Molinari's writings on the private "production of security". The conference paper is in HTML and PDF. The link to the right goes to the revised version of the paper (without the long Appendix). Molinari HTML
2019 Paper "The Conflicted Western Tradition: Some Provocative Pairings of Texts about Liberty and Power. Or, ‘Logos libertas est’" - a paper given at the Association of Core Texts and Courses annual conference, April 2019, Santa Fe, NM. WT HTML
2018 Quotes "Quotations about Liberty and Power" - a collection of 600 quotations from some of the key works in the Classical Liberal tradition which I compiled between 2004-2018 for the Online Library of Liberty. It is organised into 30 topics and each quote has a brief introduction written by me. This file is a list of the quotations with links back to the OLL website (which unfortunately in many cases are broken) [HTML]. This file has the full quote. [HTML] CL HTML
2018 Anthology The Classical Liberal Tradition: A Reader on Individual, Economic, and Political Liberty - an anthology of over 100 chapter-length extracts from classic works in the Classical Liberal tradition. The Reader is divided into 12 main sections dealing with key topics. Each extract has a brief introduction by the editor. This file contains the table of contents with links back to the texts at the OLL website. [HTML]
  1. Part I: Scepticism about Power
  2. Part II: The Basic Principles
  3. Part III: Political Liberty
  4. Part IV: Economic Liberty
  5. Part V: Individual Liberty
  6. Part VI: War and Peace
  7. Part VII: Key Legal and Political Documents
  8. Part VIII: The History of Liberty and Power
  9. Part IX: The Literature of Liberty
  10. Part X: The Critique of Socialism and Interventionism
  11. Part XI: The Ruling Class and the State
  12. Part XII: Visions of the Future
 CL HTML
2018 Book Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition, ed. David M. Hart, Gary Chartier, Ross Miller Kenyon, and Roderick T. Long (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). See the publisher's details here <http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319648934>. Class N/A
2018 Anthology The Bicentennial Anthology of the Writings of Gustave de Molinari on the State (1846-1911) (Nov. 2018). There are several versions of this anthology:
  • the Complete version with my long intro, the short intros to each extract, and the extracts [HTML]
  • just the texts in French with my brief introductions (in English) [HTML]
  • my brief Introductions only [HTML]
  • just my long intro as a separate paper "A Survey of the Life and Work of an "Économiste Dure" (A Hard-Core Economist)" [HTML]
 Molinari HTML
2018 Paper "Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912): A Survey of the Life and Work of an "économiste dure" (a hard-core economist)", the introduction to The Bicentennial Anthology of Gustave de Molinari’s Writings on the State (1846-1911) (2018) Molinari HTML
2018 Paper "Plunderers, Parasites, and Plutocrats: Some Reflections on the Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Classical Liberal Class Analysis." Paper given at the Libertarian Scholars Conference, The Kings College, NYC, 20 Oct. 2018. Class HTML
2018 Paper "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. Bastiat PDF
2018 Paper "Some Thoughts on Strategy and Future Programs for the Ramsay Centre" (Oct. 2018) WT HTML
2017 Paper "For Whom the Bell Tolls: The School of Liberty and the Rise of Interventionism in French Political Economy in the Late 19thC," and a translation of Frédéric Passy, "The School of Liberty" in Journal of Markets and Morality, vol. 20, Number 2 (Fall 2017), pp. 383-412. Online eslewhere: my paper [PDF] and my translation [PDF] HET PDF
2017 Lecture "Bastiat: the ‘Unseen’ Radical". The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, Austrian Economics Research Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn AL (March 2017). Slides for lecture [PDF] and Lecture summary [HTML] Bastiat HTML
2017 Paper "Gilbert-Urbain Guillaumin (1801-64) and the Guillaumin publishing firm (1837-1910)" which consists of two parts:
  • "A Brief History of the Guillaumin firm" along with a complete catalog of the 2,359 titles published between 1837 and 1910 [HTML]
  • "A Statistical Analysis of Seventy Years of Publication" (Jan., 2017): see "Appendix 3: On the Publishing History of the Guillaumin Firm" in my paper "The Paris School Of Liberal Political Economy, 1803-1853" (Sept. 2022) [HTML]
HET HTML
2017 Paper "Bastiat goes to the Movies, or "Filming Freddie": How to Popularise Economic Ideas in Film". A paper given at the Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Conference, April 2017 Maui, Hawaii. Bastiat HTML
2017 Paper "A Reader’s Guide to Bastiat’s The Law (June 1850)" (25 Oct., 2017) Bastiat HTML
2016 Screenplay "Broken Windows: A Screenplay"- a screnplay for a film about the life and times of the economist Frédéric Bastiat Bastiat HTML
2016 Paper "Broken Windows: An Illustrated Essay to accompany the Screenplay" Bastiat HTML
2016 Paper Gustave de Molinari's "Eleventh Soirée" from Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare (1849): a translation in Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States, ed. Aviezer Tucker, Gian Piero de Bellis (Routledge, 2016). The first version of my translation was included as an Appendix to my 1979 Honours Thesis on Molinari. [HTML] I revised it in 2015 and this is what was published in Tuckder's anthology. [HTML] Molinari HTML
2016 Paper "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, AL. It is really a book-length manuscript. The original 2016 versuion [HTML] and the revised 2024 version [HTML]. Molinari HTML
2016 Paper "The Life of Jacques Bonhomme, Printer (1819–1865): A Classical Liberal Story" (9 May, 2016) Molinari HTML
2016 Paper "Charles Coquelin, Gustave de Molinari, Frederic Bastiat and the "Austrian Moment" in French Political Economy 1845-1855: Part II. Molinari and the Private Production 0f Security". A Paper given at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting,19-21 Nov., 2016, Washington, DC. Molinari  
2016 Paper “Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Class” - Liberty Matters No. 25. Nov. 2016: David M. Hart, “Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Class” (Nov. 2016). Participants: Gary Chartier, Steve Davies, Jayme Lemke, George H. Smith. [Online elsewhere] CL HTML
2015 Paper “On the Spread of (Classical) Liberal Ideas” - Liberty Matters No. 14. March 2015: David M. Hart, “On the Spread of (Classical) Liberal Ideas” (March 2015). Participants: Stephen Davies, David Gordon, Jason Kuznicki, Peter Mentzel, Jim Powell, George H. Smith, Jeffrey Tucker. [Online elsewhere] CL HTML
2015 Paper "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 elsewhere. This is a shorter version of a longer paper which went from "Say to Jasay" (listed below). HET HTML
2015 Paper "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. CL HTML
2015 Paper "On the Spread of (Classical) Liberal Ideas: Some Thoughts on Strategy" (Feb. 2015) CL HTML
2015 Paper "Reassessing Frédéric Bastiat as an Economic Theorist." A paper presented to the Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, October 2, 2015. Bastiat HTML
2015 Paper "Gustave de Molinari and The Seven Musketeers of French Political Economy in the 1840s" (25 June, 2015). Molinari HTML
2015 Paper "The Classical Liberal Tradition - A History of Ideas and Movements over 400 Years." Papers given to the Institute for Humane Studies, Advanced Studies Summer Seminar, Bryn Mawr College, PA (June 2015). <http://davidmhart.com/liberty/ClassicalLiberalism/HistoryCL.html> CL
2015 Paper "Images of Liberty and Power: the Subversion of State Propaganda." A paper given to the Institute for Humane Studies, Advanced Studies Summer Seminar, Bryn Mawr College, PA (June 2015). Art PDF
2015 Paper "Competing Visions of the Future: Socialist and Classical Liberal." A paper given to the Institute for Humane Studies, Advanced Studies Summer Seminar, Bryn Mawr College, PA (June 2015). In [HTML] and [PDF]. CL HTML
2015 Paper "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. Bastiat HTML
2015 Paper "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. HET HTML
2015 Paper "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". Bastiat HTML
2015 Paper "Reader’s Guide to the Works of Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)" - 1st edition 2015; revised version 2017. [Online elsewhere] Bastiat HTML
2015 Paper "On The Spread Liberal Ideas - Some First Thoughts (2015). CL HTML
2014 Paper "Negative Railways, Turtle Soup, talking Pencils, and House owning Dogs: ‘The French Connection’ and the Popularization of Economics from Say to Jasay" (2014, 2024). This paper was originally written for a Symposium on Tony de Jasay following his death in 2014. A shorter version was published in The Independent Review (Summer 2015) listed above. Bastiat HTML
2014 Anthology L'âge d`or du libéralisme français. Anthologie. XIXe siècle. Robert Leroux et David M. Hart. Préface de Mathieu Laine (Paris: Editions Ellipses, 2014). CL N/A
2014 Paper "Seeing the 'Unseen' Bastiat: The Changing Optics of Bastiat Studies. Or, What the Liberty Fund's Translation Project is teaching us about Bastiat". A paper presented to the "Colloquium on Market Institutions & Economic Processes" at NYU (December 1, 2014). Bastiat HTML
2014 Paper "’Unfortunately, hardly anyone listens to the Economists’: The Battle against Socialism by the French Economists in the 1840s". Paper given to the Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney, 8 July 2014. Lecture notes [HTML] and lecture slides [PDF]. CL HTML
2014 Anthology "’I, Pencil’: An Intellectual History (1644-1958)" (Aug., 2014). HET HTML
2013 Paper Liberty Matters (2013-2019) - a discussion of some of the key texts on the OLL website by invited academics. I edited LM between Jan. 2013 - Sept. 2019 during which time 42 discussions were held. I wrote Lead Essays for three of the discussions, and was a Participant for 5 others:. Lead essays:
  1. No. 14. March 2015: David M. Hart, “On the Spread of (Classical) Liberal Ideas” (March 2015). Participants: Stephen Davies, David Gordon, Jason Kuznicki, Peter Mentzel, Jim Powell, George H. Smith, Jeffrey Tucker. [Online elsewhere]
  2. No. 25. Nov. 2016: David M. Hart, “Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Class” (Nov. 2016). Participants: Gary Chartier, Steve Davies, Jayme Lemke, George H. Smith. [Online elsewhere]
  3. No. 40 (May 2019): David M. Hart, "Reassessing Bastiat's Economic Harmonies after 160 Years" (May 2019). Participants: Donald J. Boudreaux, Guido Hülsmann, and Joseph T. Salerno. [Online elsewhere]

and:

  1. No. 3. May 2013: Roderick Long, “Gustave de Molinari’s Legacy for Liberty” (May, 2013). Participants: Gary Chartier, David D. Friedman, David M. Hart, Matt Zwolinski. [Online elsewhere]
  2. No. 4. July 2013: Robert Leroux, “Bastiat and Political Economy” (July 1, 2013). Participants: Donald J. Boudreaux, Michael C. Munger, David M. Hart. [Online elsewhere]
  3. No. 22. May 2016: Jacob T. Levy, “Rationalism, Pluralism, and the History of Liberal Ideas” (May, 2016). Participants: Gary Chartier, Jeremy Jennings, Chandran Kukathas. David M. Hart. [Online elsewhere]
  4. No. 29. (July, 2017): Matt Zwolinski, "William Graham Sumner – Liberty's Forgotten Man" (July 2017). Participants: Phillip W. Magness, Robert Leroux, Fabio Rojas, David M. Hart. [Online elsewhere]
  5. No. 36 (Oct. 2018): Virgil Storr, “Marx and the Morality of Capitalism” (October, 2018) Participants: Pete Boettke, Steve Horwitz, David Prychitko, and David Hart. [Online elsewhere]
CL HTML
2013 Anthology The Portable Library of Liberty. The last edition was the 7th edition (Oct. 2013). It was a data DVD containing 1,088 full text titles from the Online Library of Liberty website with brief introductions written by me. They were in a variety of eBook formats such as PDF, ePub, and Kindle. The project was discontinued in 2013 after over 20,000 copies were distributed. CL N/A
2013 Anthology The Pocket Guide to Political and Civic Rights: The English, American, and French Traditions, 1215-1830 - a collection of 12 key documents in the history of the evolution of our political and civic rights. [Online elsewhere] CL HTML
2013 Paper "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. Bastiat HTML
2013 Book Class Analysis, Slavery and the Industrialist Theory of History in French Liberal Thought, 1814-1830: The Radical Liberalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer ; an expanded, book-length version of my PhD thesis (1990, 1994). CC and CD HTML
2013 Paper "Bastiat’s Lessons for the 21st Century: The Broken Window Fallacy Revisited (again and again)." Paper given to the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) annual conference April 14-16, 2013. Full paper and lecture overheads [PDF 1.8 MB]. Bastiat
2012 Anthology French Liberalism in the 19th Century: An Anthology. Edited by Robert Leroux and David M. Hart (London: Routledge, 2012). CL N/A
2012 Paper "Frédéric Bastiat’s Distinction between Legal and Illegal Plunder." A Paper given at American Philosophical Society, Seattle WA, 7 April, 2012. Bastiat HTML
2012 Paper "Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) and Rethinking Classical Economics in the mid-19th Century," Institute for Liberal Studies, A Brief History of Economic Thought, The University of Toronto (29 Sept. 2012) [HTML] Bastiat
2012 Paper "Is Biography History? The Relationship between Ideas and Human Action in the Life of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850): A Biographical Approach." A Paper given at the Historical Society’s conference on "Popularizing Historical Knowledge: Practice, Prospects, and Perils," University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, May 31 - June 3, 2012. Bastiat HTML
2012 Paper "Political Propaganda and the State: On Seeing through the Culture of Authority", Institute for Liberal Studies & Laurier Students for Liberty, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario (October 1, 2012). Lecture slide show [PDF 13 MB] Art
2011 Paper "Introduction to French Liberalism in the 19th Century" - This is a draft of the Introduction to French Liberalism in the 19th Century: An Anthology. Edited by Robert Leroux and David M. Hart (London: Routledge, 2012), which Robert Leroux and I wrote in late 2011. CL HTML
2011 Paper "Bastiat's Rhetoric of Liberty: The Use of Language and Literature in his Economic Writings" (2011, 2015, 2024) Bastiat HTML
2011 Book The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat in six volumes. Jacques de Guenin, General Editor. Academic Editor, David M. Hart (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2011-2019). [Online elsewhere].
  • Vol. 1: The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics (2011)
  • Vol. 2: The Law, The State, and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850 (2012)
  • Vol. 3: Economic Sophisms and "What is Seen and What is Not Seen" (2017).
  • Vol. 4: Miscellaneous Economic Writings (final draft 2019, forthcoming ???)
  • Vol. 5: Economic Harmonies (final draft 2019, forthcoming ???).
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2011 Paper "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. Bastiat HTML
2011 Paper "Seven Provocative Things about Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)". The David R. Saurman Provocative Lecture given at the Department of Economics, San Jose State University, CA. Bastiat PDF
2010 Paper "Images of Liberty and Power: The Art of War and Peace" (Nov. 2010) - This is part of a collection of works of art and other images I have used in my teaching or have commented upon over the years. They are roughly divided into two groups, those that deal with "Art and Politics" and those with the "Art of War and Peace". I wrote 9 essays on war artists for my course "Responses to War" which are listed below and another 10 at this site listed here. Art HTML
2010 Paper "Images of Liberty and Power: Art and Politics" (Nov. 2010) - I wrote 31 "illustrated essays" for the OLL and another 20 at this website which are listed on this page. Art HTML
2010 Paper "Reflections on Liberty and Power in Modern Art." A Lecture given at the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art, Tuscaloosa, AL, November 15, 2010. A summary page with links [HTML] and the lecture slides [PDF]. Art PDF
2010 Paper "The Culture of Liberty vs. the Culture of Authority: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer". The Liberty + Power Lectures, the University of Alabama, November 16, 2010. Summary page with links [HTML] and the lecture slides [PDF] Art PDF
2009 Paper "The Changing Fortunes of the Joint Publication of J.S. Mill’s On Liberty and The Subjection of Women: 1874-2009". A Paper given to the Association of Core Texts and Courses annual meeting 17 April, 2009 on "Memory, Invention, Delivery: Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge and Culture in Liberal Arts Education for the Future". Also in [PDF]. CL HTML
2008 Paper The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Editor-in-Chief Ronald Hamowy. Assistant Editors Jason Kuznicki and Aaron Steelman. Consulting Editor Deirdre McCloskey. Founding and Consulting Editor Jeffrey D. Schultz. (Los Angeles: Sage, 2008. A Project of the Cato Institute). I wrote the entries on Comte, Condorcet, Constant, Dunoyer, The French Revolution, Molinari, Say, Tracy, and Turgot. An HTML version of them is available at this website [HTML] as well as from <liberarianism.org>: CL HTML
2004 Article "War and Peace in the Arts", in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 2004). In 6 Volumes. vol. 6, pp. 2454-60. Also in [PDF] War HTML
2001 Paper "A Report on Stage I of the "Online Library Of Liberty": Putting The Goodrich List Online" (February 24, 2001) Web HTML
2000 Paper "A Report on Creating an Online Library of Liberty" (21 April, 2000) Web HTML
2000 Paper "Gustave de Molinari and the Future of Liberty: ‘Fin de Siècle, Fin de la Liberté'?" (2001, 2021).A paper presented to the Australian Historical Association 2000 Conference on "Futures in the Past", The University of Adelaide, 5-9 July, 2000. Also includes an appendix with 2 articles by Molinari on the ahcievements of the 19th century and the prospects for the coming 20th century. Also in [PDF]. Molinari HTML
1998 Course "Europe, Empire, and War: The Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914" - I gave this course at the University of Adelaide between between 1998 and 1999. It deals with the remarkable transformation of European society which took place between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 to the beginning of the First World War in 1914 nd covers the following topics: the Economy and Society; Class, Power & Revolution; Political Thought; State, Empire and War; Liberty; and Ideas and Culture. CL HTML
1998 Paper "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: The Idea of the "Sweet and Fitting Death for the Fatherland" and its Critics in Selected War Films", a paper given at the Australian and New Zealand History and Film Conference, "National Cinemas: Sites of Resistance?", Queensland Cultural Cenbtre, Brisbane, Queensland, 28-30 November 1998. Also in [PDF] War HTML
1998 Paper "Study Guide to War Films" - a list of 84 war films with links to the full film guide (2-3 pages each). War HTML
1997 Paper "The Idea of the Withering Away of the State: 19th Century Liberal and Marxist Perspectives", a draft paper presented to the Department of History Research Seminar, Univesity of Adelaide, 1 December 1997. Also in [PDF]. CL HTML
1994 Thesis "Class Analysis, Slavery and the Industrialist Theory of History in French Liberal Thought, 1814-1830: The Radical Liberalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer" (King's College Cambridge, 1994). My unpublished PhD thesis which has been through several versions:
  • the original longer version of my thesis submitted in 1990 (125,000 words) with the quotations left in the original French (as I was instructed to do) [PDF]
  • the shorter version of the thesis submitted in 1993 (107,000 words) with a new section on Marx which was insisted upon by one of the (Marxist) examiners, and the quotations translated into English - again at the insistence of one of the examiners. [PDF]
  • an expanded, book-length version of the thesis (190K words) - PDF (2010) and HTML (2013)
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1993 Paper "Responses to War: War Films and the Teaching of History", a paper given to "Screening the Past" The VIth Australian History and Film Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 30 November - 4 December 1993. Also in [PDF] War HTML
1991 Paper "Stage Theories of History: Liberal vs Marxist." A paper given at the Institute for Humane Studies "Advanced History Seminar", College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California (20-26 July, 1991) CL HTML
1991 Paper "The Basic Tenets of Real Liberalism". This was the introduction to a lecture/seminar given at the Institute for Humane Studies "Liberty and Society" Summer Seminar at the College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California, 27 July - 9 August 1991. The reading and study guide for the seminar was the full 5 part series "The Basic Tenets of Real Liberalism" written by me and Walter Grinder and which was published in the Humane Studies Review (IHS, 1982-86). [Online]. CL HTML
1991 Paper "Slavery: The French Classical Liberal Critique, 1750-1850." A paper given at the Institute for Humane Studies "Advanced History Seminar", College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California (20-26 July, 1991). CL HTML
1990 Paper "Arguments against Slavery in France during the Restoration: From Art to Political Economy", A Paper Presented to the University of Adelaide, Department of History Seminar (15 October, 1990). CL HTML
1989 Course

"Responses to War: An Intellectual and Cultural History" - I gave this course at the University of Adelaide between between 1989 and 1999 in both a full-year and a semester length format. The aim of the course was to use the history of ideas and culture to gain insights into the nature of war and the combat experience, to explore the impact of war on individuals and societies, and to examine the impact of war on ideas and culture from the ancient world to anticipations of wars of the future. A major component of the course was the weekly showing of a war film, listening to music inspired by or in opposition to war, .

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1989 Paper "The Importance of the Liberal Arts to Education: An Historian's Perspective", a paper given to the Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium and Annual Lecture, "The Relevance of the Humanities", 22 September, 1989, University House, Australian National university, Canberra, ACT. Also as PDF. Other HTML
1989 Paper "The Research Agenda of Nineteenth Century French Liberal Historiography: The Political, Sociological, Economic and Cultural Dimensions." A paper given at the IHS Advanced History Seminar, College of Notre Dame, San Mateo, California (8-15 August, 1989). CL HTML
1989 Paper "The Debate about the Profitability of Slavery in French Political Economy during the 1820s" a paper given at the History of Economic Thought Society of Australasia Biennial Conference, July 3-6 1989, Australian National University, Canberra. CL HTML
1987 Course "Liberal Europe and Social Change, 1815-1914" (1987-96) - I gave this year long course at the University of Adelaide between 1987 and 1996 before it was terminated in a restructuring of the Arts Faculty. Each year I produced a Course Guide which had a comprehensive bibliography and which was extensively illustrated. The course covered the hsitory of classical liberal thought in the 19th century and the liberal economimc, political, and social reforms which resulted. See for example:
  • 1987 Course Guide [PDF]
  • 1990 Course Guide [HTML] and Lecture Notes [HTML]
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1986 Paper "The Problem of Hyper-specialisaation in the Discipline of History" (Jan. 1986). An essay written for the Institute for Humane Studies, Menlo Park, CA. CL HTML
1985 Paper "How History can contribute to the Renaissance of Classical Liberalism: A Comment on Hayek's essay on "Intellectuals and Socialism" (Jan. 1985). An essay written for the Institute for Humane Studies, Menlo Park, CA. CL HTML
1985 Paper "Class, Exploitation and Industry in French Liberal Thought, 1800-1850" - Paper delivered to the Carl Menger Society Oxford Meeting, 26-28th April, 1985 CL HTML
1984 Paper "The Relevance of Classical Liberal and Libertarian Principles in Society Today" (Jan. 1984). An essay written for the Institute for Humane Studies, Menlo Park, CA. CL HTML
1984 Paper "Knox and 1984" - an article I wrote for the Knox Journal (Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga, Sydney) 10 years after I had left the school. I only have a scanned PDF of a prinedt version I had done in large font for my grandmother who had trouble reading the fine print of the published version. Misc. PDF
1982 Paper The Humane Studies Review (1982-86) was published by the Institute for Humane Studies, Menlo Park, CA. The first 5 years were edited and written largely by David Hart, especially the series of essays on "An Outline of the History of Libertarian Thought" and "The Basic Tenets of Real Liberalism" (with Walter E. Grinder). CL PDF
1982 Paper

"An Outline of the History of Libertarian Thought" - a four part series I wrote for the Humaine Studies Review between 1982 and 1986.

  1. Part I. From Radical Calvinism to the American Revolution, HSR vol. I, no. 1 (1982), pp. 2-5
  2. Part II. From the Radical Whigs to the German Enlightenment, HSR vol. I, no. 2 (1982), pp. 1-6
  3. Part III. § VII. The Scottish Enlightenment, HSR vol. II, no. 3 (1985), pp. 6-8
  4. Part IV. French Liberalism from the Revolution to the end of the Nineteenth Century. (never finished and not published
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1982 Paper "The Basic Tenets of Real Liberalism" - co-authored with Walter Grinder in 5 parts between 1982-86 in the Humane Studies Review (IHS):
  1. Part I. Individuality and Privacy, HSR vol. 1, no. 3 (1982), pp. 1-5.
  2. Part II. Tolerance and Moral Autonomy, HSR vol. 1, no. 4 (1982), pp. 1-6.
  3. Part III. Social Harmony, Free Trade and Peace, HSR vol. 2, no. 3 (1985), pp. 1-5.
  4. Part IV: Interventionism, Social Conflict and War (Part 1), HSR vol. 2 , no. 4 (1985), pp. 1-5.
  5. Part IV. Interventionism, Social Conflict and War (Part 2), HSR vol. 3, no. 1 (1986), pp. 1-7.
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1982 Paper "Gustave de Molinari and the Anti-Statist Liberal Tradition" - published in the Journal of Libertarian Studies in three parts: Vol. 5, nos. 3 and 4 (1981) and Vol. 6, no. 1 (1982). Online elsewhere: Part 1 [HTML and PDF]; Part 2 [HTML and PDF]; Part 3 [HTML and PDF] Molinari HTML
1979 Thesis "Gustave de Molinari and the Anti-Statist Liberal Tradition" (Sept. 1979) - an Honours thesis presented as part of an Honours degree in the Department of History at Macquarie University, Sydney in 1979. [also in PDF] It includes as an Appendix a translation of the "Eleventh Soirée" of Molinari's book Les Soirées de la rue Saint-Lazare (1849) [online - book - my translation revised (2015)]. Molinari HTML