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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) • Liberty Review (liberty-review.org) • AdamSmithWorks (adamsmithworks.org) The cuneiform inscription that serves as Liberty Fund’s logo and as a design element in our books is Cover art: Cover image of Israel M. the earliest-known written appearance of the word Kirzner used with permission from “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay the Mercatus Center at George document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian Mason University. city-state of Lagash. 2019 CATALOG LIBERTY FUND BOOKS NEW AND FORTHCOMING Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics By Israel M. Kirzner Edited and with an Introduction by Peter J. Boettke and Frédéric Sautet Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His shadow of socialism. As Kirzner put it, Economics is a collection of Israel M. “Mises saw the denial of economics as Kirzner’s work regarding his mentor, an alarming threat to a free society and including a monograph on Mises and his to Western civilization. It is economics work as well as several articles detailing that is able to demonstrate the social how he impacted the world of economics. advantages of the unhampered market.” Kirzner showcases Mises as not Israel M. Kirzner is a leading economist in the only a man with a “sparkling, fresh, Austrian School and Emeritus Professor of fundamentally new interpretation” of the economics at New York University. tenets espoused by the Austrian school of Peter J. Boettke is University Professor of economics, but also as Kirzner’s mentor Economics and Philosophy at George Mason and academic compatriot. To this end, University and the BB&T Professor for the Kirzner’s essays on Mises elucidate the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center. 2019 | 6 x 9 | Approx. 288 pages work of both men and convey Mises’s His publications include Living Economics, The ideas with unparalleled brilliance. Handbook of Contemporary Austrian Economics, Introduction to the Liberty Fund edition, and The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics. index, cumulative index He has been the editor of The Review of Austrian For Kirzner, Mises is a man with a Economics since 1998. Hardcover mission: to reignite economists’ search ISBN 978-0-86597-864-5 for truth. It was this mission that led Frédéric Sautet is Associate Professor at The $20.00 | £14.95 | C$32.00 both Mises and Kirzner to champion Catholic University of America, Tim Busch School of Business and Economics. He is a Paperback economic science and its teaching—i.e., specialist in Austrian market process theory ISBN 978-0-86597-865-2 the unhampered market and the system and teaches entrepreneurship studies. He is the $12.00 | £8.95 | C$19.20 of free enterprise—in response to the author of An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm encroaching philosophical and economic and has published widely on entrepreneurship. “Mises saw the denial of economics as an alarming threat to a free society and to Western civilization. It is economics that is able to demonstrate the social advantages of the unhampered market.” — Israel M. Kirzner For more information on the Collected Works of Israel M. Kirzner, see pages 18–21. 2019 CATALOG 1 LIBERTY FUND BOOKS NEW AND FORTHCOMING Historical Law-Tracts The Fourth Edition with Additions and Corrections By Henry Home, Lord Kames Edited and with an Introduction by James A. Harris Historical Law-Tracts is one of the In Historical Law-Tracts, Kames earliest contributions to the Scottish combined the natural law framework Enlightenment project of a historical that underlies his Essays on the Principles science of society. Henry Home, Lord of Morality and Natural Religion with the Kames (1696–1782) was an influential “conjectural,” or philosophical, approach Scottish judge, a prolific man of letters, to history that would receive its fullest and one of the leading figures of the treatment in his Sketches of the History of Enlightenment in Scotland, and his goal Man to offer a history of law as a history in this work is to show the study of law of the progress of mankind from savage as a genuinely scientific inquiry and not to civil society. a mere collection of facts for the lawyer to memorize. He deployed a large range The Liberty Fund edition supplements of ancient, medieval, and early-modern Kames’s original text with a new 2019 | 6 x 9 | Approx. 320 pages sources to trace the development of law introduction providing historical context Editor’s introduction, editorial principles, and to explain that development in terms and biographical information, expansion glossary of legal terminology, bibliography, of interactions between principles of of Kames’s footnotes to explain the often index. human nature and political, economic, rather obscure system of reference and social circumstance. He applied this used in the book, translation of the Latin Hardcover passages, and explanatory annotations ISBN 978-0-86597-617-7 method in substantial and influential $24.00 | £19.95 | C$38.40 treatments of criminal law and the law relating to important changes that of property and also to a diverse range Kames made to the text, including variant Paperback of issues, specifically in Scots law. One readings from earlier editions. ISBN 978-0-86597-618-4 of Kames’s principal objectives was to $14.50| £10.95 | C$23.20 James Harris is Professor of the History of expose and discredit the continuing Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, influence of feudal principles in Scotland. He is the author of Hume: An eighteenth-century Scots law and, as Intellectual Biography and Of Liberty and such, Historical Law-Tracts can be read as Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth- . He is the editor of the a manifesto for a modern, commercial, Century British Philosophy Liberty Fund edition of Kames’s Sketches of the Scotland. The work found an international History of Man. readership as well, especially in America, where it was read as an object lesson in understanding the role of law in a free society. For more titles from Liberty