• Frederic Bastiat,The Law
  
• Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, The Federalist Papers
  
• James Tooley, The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themselves
  
• Mark Skousen, The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
  
• Timothy Sandefur, The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
  
• Jim Peron, ed., The Liberal Tide: From Tyranny to Liberty
  
• Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
  
• Marc Guttman, ed., Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace and Freedom
  

2010:

• F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
  
• Johan Norberg, Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation with Home Ownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis
  
• Arnold Kling, Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy
  
• Thomas E. Woods Jr., Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse
  
• Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
  
• Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon, and Gordon L. Brady, Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice
  
• David Friedman, Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
  
• Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource 2
  
• Robert Nisbet, Twilight of Authority
  
• Randal O'Toole, The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future
  
• Peter McWilliams, Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Society
  
• Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
  
• Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
  

2009:

• Roy A. Childs, Jr., Liberty Against Power
  
• Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson
  
• Jeff Benedict, Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage
  
• Robert A. Levy and William Mellor, The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom
  
• Auberon Herbert, The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays
  
• Tom G. Palmer, Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice
  
• Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
  
• Jerome Tuccille, It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand
  
• Burton W. Folsom, The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America
  
• Thomas J. DiLorenzo, How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present
  
• Frederic Bastiat, Selected Essays on Political Economy
  
• David T. Beito, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967
  
• Mark Skousen, Vienna & Chicago, Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics
  
• Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
  
• Lysander Spooner, The Lysander Spooner Reader
  

2008:

• Milton Friedman, Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
  
• Leonard E. Read, Anything That's Peaceful
  
• David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
  
• Rose Wilder Lane, The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
  
• Thomas Sowell, Economic Facts and Fallacies
  
• Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, The State: A Study of Social Power vs. State Power and of The State in Colonial America
  
• Tibor R. Machan, ed., Individual Rights Reconsidered: Are the Truths of the U.S. Declaration of Independence Lasting?
  
• Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
  
• Carl Watner, ed., I Must Speak Out: The Best of The Voluntaryist, 1982–1999
  
• James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy
  
• Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
  
• Randy Barnett, Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
  
• Bertrand de Jouvenel, The Ethics of Redistribution
  
• Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy
  
• F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
  

2007:

• Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine
  
• Johan Norberg, In Defense of Global Capitalism
  
• Leon Kass, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
  
• Ronald Bailey, Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution
  
• David Boaz, Libertarianism: A Primer
  
• Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
  
• W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm, Myths of Rich and Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think
  
• Richard Epstein, How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution
  
• Larry Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
  
• Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
  

2006:

• Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness
  
• David Schoenbrod, Saving Our Environment From Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People
  
• F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty
  
• Frederic Bastiat, That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen: The Unintended Consequences of Government Spending
  
• Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
  
• Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
  
• P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
  
• David Friedman, Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do With Law and Why It Matters
  
• Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
  
• John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
  

Show-Me Institute Book Club — Columbia

Current information on the Columbia, MO chapter of the Show-Me Institute Book Club can be found at their website: http://showmebookclub.wordpress.com/

Some books previously read and discussed by the Columbia chapter