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Saturday, January 1, 2011

The Spectacled Avenger's Reading List, 2010

Another year has come and gone, and for me it wasn’t such a bad year, all things considered. I certainly had plenty to be grateful for.

As an homage to Art Garfunkel, and in keeping with a practise established last new year, here is The Spectacled Avenger’s reading list for 2010. As with last year's list, books I particularly enjoyed are bolded, and if a book is listed twice, that is because I read it twice.


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ACKERMAN, Bruce. The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

ACKERMAN, Bruce. The Decline and Fall of the American Republic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

ADAMS, John. The Portable John Adams. John Patrick Diggins (ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2004.

ACTON, Lord. Essays in the History of Liberty. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1985.

ARISTOTLE. Politics. H. Rackham (trans). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

ARIUS DIDYMUS. Epitome of Stoic Ethics. Arthur J. Pomeroy (trans.). Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 1999.

BAILYN, Bernard (ed.). The Debate on the Constitution, Part One: September 1787 to February 1788. New York: Library of America, 1993.

BAKER, J. H. An Introduction to English Legal History (4th edition). London: Butterworths, 2002.

BARRY, Brian. Why Social Justice Matters. Cambridge: Polity, 2005.

BARRY, Brian. Political Argument. London: Routledge, 1965.

BRENNAN, Geoffrey and James M. BUCHANAN. The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 10). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000.

BRENNAN, Geoffrey and James M. BUCHANAN. The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 10). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000.

BUCHANAN, James M. and Richard E. WAGNER. Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes (Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 8). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000.

CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of. Letters. David Roberts (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

COHEN, G. A. Rescuing Justice and Equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

COKE, Sir Edward. The Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke (Vol. I). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003.

FLOWER, Harriet I. Roman Republics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1993.

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. The Great Crash, 1929. Boston: Mariner Books, 1997.

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Boston: Mariner Books, 1998.

GROTIUS, Hugo. The Rights of War and Peace (Vol. II). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.

HAMILTON, Alexander. Writings. New York: Library of America, 2001.

HAMILTON, Alexander, James MADISON, and John JAY. The Federalist. New York: Modern Library, 1937.

HARDIN, Russell. How Do You Know? The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

HAYEK, Friedrich. The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.

HAYEK, Friedrich. The Fortunes of Liberalism: Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1992.

HAYEK, Friedrich. Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

HAYEK, Friedrich. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

HAYEK, Friedrich. Individualism and Economic Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.

HAYEK, Friedrich. Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Vol. III: The Political Order of a Free People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

HÖLKESKAMP, Karl-Joachim. Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

JANAWAY, Christopher. Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche’s “Genealogy”. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works of Samuel Johnson (Vol. VII). London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al, 1823.

JOYCE, Richard. The Evolution of Morality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

LACROIX, Alison L. The Ideological Origins of American Federalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

LINCOLN, Abraham. Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858. New York: Library of America, 1989.

LUKES, Steven. Liberals and Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity. London: Verso, 2003.

MACINTYRE, Alasdair. Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays, Volume 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

MADISON, James. Writings. New York: Library of America, 1999.

MARCUS AURELIUS. The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Francis Hutcheson and James Moor (trans.). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008.

MCILWAIN, Charles Howard. Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1975.

MEDEMA, Steven G. The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

MISES, Ludwig von. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Vol. 1). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007.

MISES, Ludwig von. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Vol. 2). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007.

MISES, Ludwig von. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Vol. 3). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007.

MISES, Ludwig von. Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1981.

MOORE, G. E. Principia Ethica (Revised Edition). Thomas Baldwin (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

MYERS, Robert H. Self-Governance and Cooperation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

NARVESON, Jan. The Libertarian Idea (2nd edition). Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2001.

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil. Walter Kaufmann (trans.). New York: Modern Library, 1993.

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals. Walter Kaufmann (trans.). New York: Modern Library, 1993.

NORTH, Douglass C. Understanding the Process of Economic Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

OLSON, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965.

OLSON, Mancur. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982.

OVERALL, Christine. Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

PETTIT, Philip. Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

POLANYI, Michael. The Logic of Liberty. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998.

POSNER, Richard A. The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

POSNER, Richard A. The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

POWER, Michael. The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

RAKOVE, Jack N. (ed.). The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

RUDDIMAN, William F. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

SATZ, Debra. Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

SCHUMPETER, Joseph A. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (3rd Edition). New York: Harper, 1962.

SELDON, Arthur. Capitalism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

SMITH, Steven D. The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Gerald E. Bevan (trans.). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003.

TRENCHARD, John and Thomas GORDON. Cato’s Letters: or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious (Vol. II). London: J. Walthoe et al, 1755.

TULLOCK, Gordon. The Rent-Seeking Society Redistribution (Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Vol. 5). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.

TULLOCK, Gordon. Bureaucracy (Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Vol. 6). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.

TULLOCK, Gordon. The Economics and Politics of Wealth Redistribution (Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Vol. 7). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.

VAN CLEVE, George William. A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

VICO, Giambattista. The First New Science. Leon Pompa (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

WALLACE, James D. Ethical Norms, Particular Cases. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.

WASHINGTON, George. Writings. New York: Library of America, 1997.

WATSON, Alan. Roman Private Law around 200 BC. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.

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