The Digital Library of Liberty & Power
incorporating the Guillaumin Collection of the Great Books of Liberty
I was going through some old papers and came across the program and my lecture notes for the second ever Cato Summer Seminar in Political Economy which took place at Stanford University in 5-12 August 1978 (the first one took place a month earlier at Wake Forrest). Among the alumni are Ross Levatter, David Lips, … Read more
3 March 2019 will be the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Gustave de Molinari, the “founding father” of anarcho-capitalism. To celebrate this event I have put together an anthology of his key writings on the state which will be published by Institut Coppet (Paris) next year. A draft of the book is online … Read more
Paris from Above: the Three Barriers around the city in the 1840s The Inner Circle: the octroi tax wall and barriers The Octroi gate and wall at Belleville Pulling down the Octroi Gates and walls in 1859 The Militatry Wall built by Adolphe Thers 1841-44 A photograph of the Military Wall at the Versailles Entry … Read more