The Authors in the Library

Revised: 7 April 2026

Introduction | Authors in the Library

Introduction

To organise the material in the Library we have adopted the following practice:

authors are divided into “groups” such as “nationality” (or the language in which the text was written), schools of thought, and the historical period in which they lived and wrote
texts are divided into “collections” such as disciplines, topics, and other specific collections of various kinds

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Authors in the Library

Nationality

School of Thought

Historical Period

Showing 121 authors

No.	Author	Nationality	School	Period	Works
1	John Dalberg Acton (1834-1902)	English	English CL	19th Century	3
2	Aesop (c. 620–564 BCE)	Greek		Ancient	1
3	Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)	English	English CL	19th Century	1
4	Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)	French	French CL, Paris School	19th Century	14
5	Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914)	Austrian	Austrian School	19th Century	1
6	Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)	French	French Enlightenment	Early Modern	1
7	Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866)	French	French CL	19th Century	3
8	Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)	English	Philosophic Radicals	18th Century	1
9	Théodore de Bèze (1519-1605)	French	Monarchomachs	Renaissance and Reformation	1
10	Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)	American		19th Century	1
11	William Blackstone (1723-1780)	English		18th Century	1
12	Étienne de la Boétie (1530-1563)	French	Monarchomachs	Renaissance and Reformation	3
13	Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)	American		20th Century	1
14	George Buchanan (1506-1582)	Scottish	Monarchomachs	Renaissance and Reformation	3
15	Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862)	English	English CL	19th Century	1
16	Edmund Burke (1711-1776)	Irish		18th Century	1
17	John Elliott Cairnes (1823-1875)	English	Classical School	19th Century	1
18	John C., Calhoun (1782–1850)	American		19th Century	1
19	Richard Cantillon (1680s-1734)	Irish		18th Century	2
20	James Coolidge Carter (1827-1905)	American		19th Century	1
21	Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474-1566)	Spanish		Renaissance and Reformation	1
22	Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846)	English	Abolitionist	19th Century	2
23	Richard Cobden (1804-1865)	English	English CL	19th Century	3
24	Charles Comte (1782-1837)	French	French CL, Paris School	19th Century	3
25	Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714-1780)	French	French Enlightenment	18th Century	1
26	Condorcet (1743-1794)	French	French Enlightenment	18th Century	2
27	Benjamin Constant (1767–1830)	French	French CL	19th Century	4
28	Charles Coquelin (1802-1852)	French	French CL, Paris School	19th Century	2
29	David M.Hart	Australian		20th Century	0
30	Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836)	French	French CL, Paris School	19th Century	1
31	Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847-1914)	English		19th Century	1
32	Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)	American	Abolitionist	19th Century	2
33	Charles Dunoyer (1786-1862)	French	French CL, Paris School	19th Century	4
34	Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)	Dutch		Renaissance and Reformation	2
35	Adam Ferguson (1723-1797)	Scottish	Scottish Enlightenment	18th Century	1
36	Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814)	German	German Enlightenment	18th Century	2
37	Henry George (1839-1897)	American		19th Century	1
38	William Godwin (1756-1836)	English		18th Century	1
39	Christopher Goodman (1520-1603)	English	Monarchomachs	Renaissance and Reformation	1
40	Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)	English	Commonwealthmen	18th Century	8
41	Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)	French	French Enlightenment	18th Century	1
42	Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)	Dutch		Early Modern	1
43	Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)	American		18th Century	1
44	James Harrington (1611–1677)	English	Levellers	Early Modern	1
45	William Edward Hearn (1826-1888)	Australian		19th Century	1
46	Auberon Herbert (1838-1906)	English		19th Century	1
47	Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869)	English		19th Century	5
48	François Hotman (1524–1590)	French	Monarchomachs	Renaissance and Reformation	1
49	Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)	German	German Enlightenment	18th Century	2
50	David Hume (1711-1776)	Scottish	Scottish Enlightenment	18th Century	3
51	Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746)	Scottish	Scottish Enlightenment	18th Century	1
52	John Lilburne (1615-1657)	English	Levellers		1
53	Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)	German	German Enlightenment	18th Century	1
54	Karl Kraus (1874-1936)	Austrian		20th Century	1
55	Vicesimus Knox (1752-1821)	English		18th Century	1
56	Hubert Languet (Brutus) (1518–1581)	French	Monarchomachs	Renaissance and Reformation	1
57	Paul Leroy-Beaulieu (1843-1916)	French	French CL, Paris School	19th Century	3
58	John Locke (1632-1704)	English		Early Modern	4
59	Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)	English	Classical School	19th Century	2
60	Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)	English	Levellers	Early Modern	1
61	Carl Menger (1841-1921)	Austrian	Austrian School	19th Century	2
62	John Millar (1735-1801)	Scottish	Scottish Enlightenment	18th Century	1
63	James Mill (1773-1836)	Scottish	Philosophic Radicals, Utilitarianism	19th Century	3
64	John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)	English	Classical School, Philosophic Radicals	19th Century	8
65	John Milton (1608-1674)	English	Levellers	Early Modern	6
66	Ludwig Mises (1881-1973)	Austrian	Austrian School	20th Century	8
67	Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)	French	French CL, Paris School	19th Century	27
68	Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)	French		Renaissance and Reformation	1
69	Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689-1755)	French	French Enlightenment	18th Century	1
70	Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941)	Italian		19th Century	1
71	Friedrich Murhard (1778-1853)	German		19th Century	1
72	Marchmont Nedham (1620-1678)	English	Levellers	Early Modern	1
73	Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945)	American		20th Century	1
74	Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943)	German		20th Century	2
75	Richard Overton (1599-1664)	English	Levellers	Early Modern	2
76	Thomas Paine (1737-1809)	English		18th Century	3
77	Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)	French	Classical School, French CL	20th Century	6
78	John Ponet (1514-1556)	English	Monarchomachs	Renaissance and Reformation	1
79	Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)	English		18th Century	1
80	Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)	French		19th Century	1
81	Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694)	German		Early Modern	1
82	General Council of Officers	English	Levellers	Early Modern	1
83	François Quesnay (1694-1774)	French	Physiocrats	18th Century	1
84	Eugen Richter (1838–1906)	German		19th Century	2
85	Joseph Ritson (1752-1803)	English		18th Century	1
86	Lemercier de la Rivière (1719-1801)	French	Physiocrats	18th Century	1
87	Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958)	German		20th Century	2
88	Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)	English		Early Modern	1
89	Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832)	French	French CL, Paris School	19th Century	6
90	Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)	German	German Enlightenment	18th Century	1
91	Victor Schœlcher (1804-1893)	French	Abolitionist, French CL	19th Century	2
92	Several Hands (Magna Carta)			Medieval	1
93	Several Hands (Levellers)	English	Levellers	Early Modern	4
94	William Shakespeare (1564-1616)	English		Renaissance and Reformation	4
95	Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)	English		19th Century	2
96	Algernon Sidney (1622-1683)	English	Levellers	Early Modern	1
97	Georg Simmel (1858–1918)	German		19th Century	1
98	Adam Smith (1723-1790)	Scottish	Classical School, Scottish Enlightenment	18th Century	5
99	Bruce Smith (1851-1937)	Australian		19th Century	1
100	Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)	English		19th Century	5
101	Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677)	Dutch		Early Modern	2
102	Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)	American	Abolitionist	19th Century	5
103	William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)	American		19th Century	6
104	Morris and Linda Tannehill (n.d.)	American		20th Century	1
105	Augustin Thierry (1795-1856)	French	French CL	19th Century	1
106	Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877)	French	French CL	19th Century	2
107	Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)	American		19th Century	1
108	Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)	French	French CL	19th Century	2
109	John Toland (1670-1722)	English	Commonwealthmen	18th Century	1
110	John Trenchard (1662-1723)	English	Commonwealthmen	18th Century	4
111	Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781)	French	Physiocrats	18th Century	1
112	James Tyrrell (1642-1718)	English		Early Modern	2
113	Voltaire (1694-1778)	French	French Enlightenment	18th Century	4
114	John Wade (1788–1875)	English		19th Century	2
115	John Warr (1642–1686)	English	Levellers	Early Modern	1
116	Philip H. Wicksteed (1844–1927)	English	English CL	20th Century	1
117	Friedrich Wieser (1851-1926)	Austrian	Austrian School	19th Century	1
118	William Walwyn (1600-1680)	English	Levellers	Early Modern	1
119	Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676)	English	Levellers	Early Modern	1
120	William Wollaston (1660-1724)	English		18th Century	1
121	Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)	English		18th Century	2