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Commemorating Sixty Years of Preserving, Restoring, and Developing Individual Liberty Through Investigation, Research, and Educational Activity 2020 CATALOG COMMEMORATING SIXTY YEARS of preserving, restoring, and developing individual liberty through investigation, research, and educational activity. LIBERTY FUND BOOKS CONTENTS Contents New and Forthcoming ...............................................1 About Liberty Fund Liberty Fund, Inc., is a private educational foundation established The Glasgow Edition of the Works and to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Correspondence of Adam Smith ...........................4 Liberty Fund develops, supervises, and finances its own educational activities to foster thought and encourage discourse Economics ......................................................................7 on enduring issues pertaining to liberty. These programs focus on the place individual liberty has in an intellectual heritage evident from ancient times and continuing Political Thought ....................................................... 60 through our own times. The programs are intended to enrich understanding and appreciation of the complex nature of a society of free and responsible individuals and to contribute to American History ..................................................... 90 its preservation. As a tax-exempt, private operating foundation, Liberty Fund’s purposes are educational and intellectual. Liberty Fund does Law ...............................................................................111 not, therefore, engage in politics or political action of any kind. Liberty Fund fulfills its mission by conducting programs, not by Online Educational Resources ..........................116 awarding grants to outside organizations or individuals. Liberty Fund activities are concentrated in three areas: Natural Law and Enlightenment BOOKS Liberty Fund has published over 400 titles for Classics Series ..........................................................119 scholars, students, and general readers since its first publication, Education in a Free Society, appeared in 1973. Most titles explore some aspect of the interrelationship of liberty and History ........................................................................134 responsibility in individual life, society, and governance. Our print and ebooks are edited and translated by world- renowned scholars who bring to the task the expertise Education ...................................................................144 these works deserve. Introductions and forewords provide noninterpretive context, annotations, bibliographies, and other supplementary apparatus that further support the text. 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Title Index ..................................................................172 WEB Liberty Fund’s online educational resources offer libraries, blogs, podcasts, forums, discussions, and a variety of content to encourage a dialogue of ideas pertaining to liberty. • Online Library of Liberty (OLL) (oll.libertyfund.org) • Econlib (econlib.org) • Law & Liberty (lawliberty.org) • AdamSmithWorks (adamsmithworks.org) Cover art: The year 2020 marks Liberty Fund’s 60th anniversary since its founding in 1960, and our catalog The cuneiform inscription that serves as Liberty cover features a few of the more than Fund’s logo and as a design element in our books is 400 titles we publish. Great books the earliest-known written appearance of the word are the repository of knowledge and “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay experience, and Liberty Fund seeks document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian to preserve the wisdom and learning city-state of Lagash. of the ages by publishing books of enduring value. 2020 CATALOG LIBERTY FUND BOOKS NEW AND FORTHCOMING On Executive Power in Great States By Jacques Necker Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Aurelian Craiutu Jacques Necker (1732–1804) was a In his book, Necker called upon Swiss statesman and financier who French legislators to study the principles played a crucial role in French political of the U.S. Constitution. His bold life from 1776 to 1789. Born in innovation was to replace the theory Geneva, he was a devout Protestant of the functional separation of powers who amassed considerable wealth as a with the “intertwining of powers” that successful banker. In October 1776, he were dependent upon the existence of was appointed as director of the Royal effective links between the executive Treasury and, later, in June 1777, as and the legislative. In the absence of director general of finances of France such links, Necker maintained, “all would under Louis XVI. While in charge of the be contest and confusion.” Necker’s finances of the kingdom, his most famous fundamental premise was that it would decision, in 1781, was to make public be impossible to establish effective the budget of France for the first time, a cooperation between different powers novel practice in an absolute monarchy. solely through the exercise of constant watchfulness and mutual distrust. 2020 | 6 x 9 | Approx. 448 pages His work On Executive Power in Great (1792) is arguably one of the most Editor’s introduction, note on the present States Although Necker was one of the most edition, author introduction, appendixes, important texts ever written on the issue important politicians in France before select bibliography, index. of executive power in modern society. and during the French Revolution, he It includes memorable formulations has been largely ignored as a political Hardcover regarding liberty and public spirit among ISBN 978-0-86597-913-0 thinker. This is the first modern edition of $24.00 | £19.95 the English and the Americans, the Necker’s important work, shedding fresh relation between economic prosperity light on the timely topics of executive Paperback and political freedom, and the seminal power, constitutionalism and the rule of ISBN 978-0-86597-914-7 influence of religion and morals on $14.50 | £10.95 law, federalism, balance of power, and liberty. Necker provides a defense of the dependence of liberty on morality representative government and offers and religion. Professor Aurelian Craiutu an examination of the French political significantly revised and corrected the system, which he compares on several 1792 English translation and added occasions with England and America. explanatory notes, an introduction, and a Before Tocqueville, Necker understood select bibliography. the importance of America for the Old World as the first successful example Aurelian Craiutu is Professor of Political of popular self-government and free Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. institutions. An expert on French political thought, he is the author of Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes and the editor of several works, including Germaine de Staël’s Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, also published by Liberty Fund. Arguably one of the most important texts ever written on the issue of executive power in modern society. 2020 CATALOG 1 LIBERTY FUND BOOKS NEW AND FORTHCOMING Writings on Standing Armies Edited, Selected, and with an Introduction by David Womersley The questions of where to locate, in Kingdom, in time of Peace, without whose hands to place, and how to Consent of Parliament” as one of James exercise the state’s powers of deadly II’s transgressions against his people, and military force inform a perennial topic consequently declared that “the raising in political theory and coalesce into a or keeping a Standing Army within this recurrent problem in political practice. Kingdom in time of Peace, unless it be Liberty Fund presents Writings on with Consent of Parliament, is against Standing Armies, a newly collected, Law.” However, in the 1690s, William III authoritative edition of the most had steadily increased the number of his important pamphlets on the “standing troops until, by 1696, it exceeded the armies” controversy of 1697–98. In number maintained by James II. The crisis addition, these writings express a subtext split the Whigs into those determined that is of equal and enduring importance: to stand by the principle of opposition the transforming effects exerted by to standing armies versus those content the prolonged possession of power on to modify principles for the practical individuals and administrations. exigencies of government. 2020 | 6 x 9 | 746 pages Whether arms should be entrusted David Womersley’s introduction to a standing army or reserved to a Editor’s introduction, abbreviations, situates these texts in the European appendixes, index. citizen militia is a central theme in a debate about standing armies and places political tradition that descends from them in the narrower context of the Hardcover Machiavelli. Part of the popular grievance specifically English altercations on the ISBN 978-0-86597-911-6 against James II in the years leading up $24.00 | £19.95 subject during the reigns of William
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