The Digital Library of Liberty & Power
incorporating the Guillaumin Collection of the Great Books of Liberty
The texts in this collection are classic works about liberty which I believe deserve more careful formatting. They are either first editions or later, revised, definitive editions of the work. The image I have chosen for the “logo” of the collection is of a “Phrygian cap”, the cap worn by freed slaves in the ancient … Read more
The Institut Coppet has recently published volume 9 of the Œuvres complètes (Complete Works) of Gustave de Molinari, thus completing the first 10 years of his long and very productive life. Only 60 more years to go! See a comprehensive (though probably still not complete) bibliography of his works which consists of 73 Books, Printed … Read more
Introduction Towards the end of his very long life, the French economist Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) said that he had spent his entire life fighting in one form or another, protectionism, socialism, slavery, statism, and militarism. He went to Paris as a young man and would-be journalist in 1841 from his native Belgium and began … Read more