The Great Books of Liberty – the “Guillaumin Collection”

Interview with Ross Cameron on TNT Radio 24 Sept. 2023 My collection of texts about liberty is in the tradition of earlier publishers who helped promote the spread of classical liberal ideas, such as Thomas Hollis (1720-1774) and Gilbert Guillaumin (1801–1864). Thomas Hollis (1720-1774) was active in pre-revolutionary North America and published beautifully bound copies … Read more

Thomas Hodgskin and the Philosophic Radicals

Date: July, 2014

I have added the following titles to the Guillaumin Library of Classical Liberal ThoughtEnglish Classical Liberals. Hodgskin is a radical individualist and supporter of free trade, yet is is claimed by the left as one of their own. The French historian Élie Halévy wrote the first biography of Hodgskin after writing a massive three volume history of the Philosophic Radicals in England, namely Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, and John Stuart Mill:

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Molinari’s “Eleventh Soirée” on the private provision of security

Date: 6 April, 2015

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A revised translation of Molinari’s “Eleventh Soirée” on the private provision of police and defence will be published in an anthology on Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States edited by Aviezer Tucker and Gian Piero de Bellis for Routledge (2016). I updated the translation and added many footnotes.

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