As a part of the Cato Institute’s Jack Byrne Iniative for Middle East Liberty, my colleagues and I have been buying lots and lots and lots of books to send off to four universities in Iraqi Kurdistan. In addition, several publishers of libertarian books have donated copies for distribution. We were putting in book plates indicating the source of the donation (“A Gift of the Lamp of Liberty”) and directing readers to Cato’s Arabic Lamp of Liberty website and Cato’s English web site when a colleague took this photo.
A number of people donated the funds and the books for the project, including several who contacted me through this website. Thank you, one and all!
Is Cato still accepting donations for this particular cause?
You bet. It’s not too late. If anyone is interested, please write to me at tomgpalmer@tomgpalmer.com or at tpalmer@cato.org. Several friends have already done so and I was able to put their money to work immediately. The books in the first shipment are still being sorted, book plates are being put in, and we are getting them ready for shipment. There will be other shipments in future, as well. I will make sure that donors (if donations are made out to the Cato Institute, they’re tax deductible) are sent a list of the books their money bought.
Thanks for asking.
Tom,
I’m trying to figure out the titles in front of you in the picture. I can make out:
Nozick, Anarchy, State & Utopia,
Rand, Atlas Shrugged,
Barnett, The Lost Constitution,
Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty.
Boaz, Libertarianism & the Libetarian Reader
What other books did you send?
Dear CG,
Herre is a partial list (the Arabic numbers are the numbers of copies that are being sent):
Acton, Lord Selected Writings of Lord Acton 4
Alchian, Armen Economic Forces at Work 8
Anderson, Terry Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law 4
Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics 4
Axelrod, Robert The Evolution of Cooperation 4
Barnet, Randy The Structure of Liberty 4
Barro, Robert J. Getting it Right 4
Barro, Robert J. Nothing is Sacred 4
Barzel, Yoram Economic Analysis of Property Rights 4
Bauer, Peter From Subsistence to Exchange 4
Becker, Gary The Economic Approach of Human Behavior 4
Becker, Gary The Economics of Life 4
Beito, David The Voluntary City 4
Beito, David From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State 8
Benston, George Regulating Financial Markets 4
Berman, Harold Law and Revolution 4
Buchanan, James Calculus of Consent 8
Buchanan, James Collected Works 4
Burckhardt, Jacob Reflections on History 4
Caldwell, Bruce Hayek’s Challenge 4
Chamberlain, John Roots of Capitalism 4
Chodorov, Frank Fugitive Essays 4
Coase, Ronald The Firm, the Market, and the Law 4
Coke, Edward Selected Writings of Edward Coke 4
Constant, Benjamin Constant: Political Writings 4
Constant, Benjamin Principles of Politics 12
Cowen, Tyler Creative Destruction 4
de Jasay The State 4
de Jasay Justice and Its Surroundings 12
de Soto, Hernando The Mystery of Capital 12
de Tocqueville, Alexis Democracy in America 8
Easterly, William The Elusive Quest for Growth 4
Eggertsson, Thrainn Economic Behavior and Institutions 4
Epstein, Richard Simple Rules for a Complex World 8
Epstein, Richard Skepticism and Freedom 4
Friedman, David Price Theory 4
Friedman, David Hidden Order 16
Friedman, David Law’s Order 4
Friedman, Milton Capitalism and Freedom 8
Friedman, Milton Free to Choose 8
Glahe, Fred Microeconomics 4
Greif, Avner Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy 1
Grotius, Hugo The Rights of War and Peace 8
Guizot, Fran��?���§ois History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe 4
Gwartney, et al. Common Sense Economics 12
Haggarty, John The Wisdom of Adam Smith 4
Hayek, F.A. The Constitution of Liberty 4
Hayek, F.A. Fatel Conceit 4
Hayek, F.A. Road to Serfdom 8
Hazlitt, Henry Economics in One Lesson 12
Heyne, Paul Economic Way of Thinking 5
Hobbes, Thomas Leviathan 4
Hogue, Arthur Origins of the Common Law 8
Hume, David A Treatise on Human Nature 8
Hume, David An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals 4
Hume, David Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary 12
Irwin, Doug Against the Tide 4
Irwin, Doug Free Trade Under Fire 4
Jay, Madison, Hamilton The Federalist Papers 4
Jones, Eric The European Miracle 4
Jouvenal, Bertrand On Power 8
Jouvenal, Bertrand The Ethics of Redistribution 16
Jouvenal, Bertrand Sovereignty 4
Jouvenal, Bertrand The Pure Theory of Politics 4
Kant, Immanuel Kant: Political Writings 4
Kealey, Terrence The Economic Laws of Scientific Research 4
Kirzner, Israel Competition and Entrepreneurship 4
Knight, Frank Freedom and Reform 4
Landsburg, Steven Price Theory and its Applications 4
Leoni, Bruno Freedom and the Law 8
Libecap, Gary Contracting Property Rights 4
Locke, John Two Treatises of Government 12
Locke, John An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 4
Locke, John Selected Political Writings of John Locke 1
Locke, John Locke: Political Essays 4
Machiavelli, Niccolo The Prince 4
Maine, Sir Henry Popular Government 8
McKenzie, Richard Managing Through Incentives 5
Meyer, Frank In Defense of Freedom 4
Mill, John Stuart On Liberty 8
Minogue, Kenneth The Liberal Mind 4
Mises, Ludwig von Human Action 4
Mises, Ludwig von Theory and History 4
Mises, Ludwig von Liberalism 12
Mises, Ludwig von Socialism 8
Mises, Ludwig von The Theory of Money and Credit 4
Mises, Ludwig von Selected Writings, Vol. 2 4
Mises, Ludwig von Selected Writings, Vol. 3 4
Mokyr, Joel The Gifts of Athena 8
Montesquieu The Spirit of Laws 4
Morley, Felix Freedom and Federalism 8
Munger, Michael Analyzing Policy 4
Murray, Charles What it Means to Be a Libertarian 4
Nisbit, Robert Twilight of Authority 4
North, Douglass Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance 4
Nozick, Robert Anarchy, State, and Utopia 4
Nutter, Warren G. Political Economy and Freedom 4
Oakeshott, Michael Rationalism in Politics 4
Oakeshott, Michael On History 4
Persson, Torsten The Economic Effects of Constitutions 1
Pinker, Steven The Blank Slate 4
Polanyi, Michael The Logic of Liberty 4
Popper, Karl Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge 4
Popper, Karl The Poverty of Historicism 4
Pound, Roscoe The Development of Constitutional Guarantees of Liberty 4
Pound, Roscoe The Ideal Element in Law 4
Pufendorf, Samuel Whole Duty of Man 4
Rand, Ayn Atlas Shrugged 12
Rand, Ayn The Fountainhead 4
Rand, Ayn Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal 4
Rawls, John A Theory of Justice: Original Edition 4
Ricardo, David Collected Works 4
Ridley, Matt The Origins of Virtue 4
Rogge, Ben Can Capitalism Survive? 4
Rommen, Heinrich The Natural Law 8
Rosenberg, Nathan How the West Grew Rich 12
Rothbard, Murray Power and Market 8
Rustow, Alexander Freedom and Domination 4
Schoeck, Helmut Envy 8
Seldon, Arthur Collected Works 4
Sharp, Andrew The English Levellers 5
Sidney, Algernon Discourses Concerning Government 4
Smith, Adam Collected Works 8
Smith, Vera Rationale of Central Banking 4
Sowell, Thomas Knowledge and Decisions 4
Sowell, Thomas A Conflict of Visions 8
Sowell, Thomas Race and Culture 4
Sowell, Thomas Vision of the Anointed 4
Spencer, Herbert The Man Versus The State 12
Sumner, William Graham On Liberty, Society, and Politics 4
Tullock, Gordon Collected Works 4
Various Authors New Individualist Review 4
Vile, M.J.C. Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers 4
von Humboldt, Wilhelm Limits of State Action 8
Weintraub, Roy Mathematics for Economists 4
West, E.G. Education and the State 4
Williamson, Oliver The Economic Institutions of Capitalism 4
Yergin, Daniel The Commanding Heights 4
Zane, John The Story of Law 4
There are others, as well, but I didn’t have the updated list handy.