First published 1949
Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery
Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery by F.A. Harper is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- F.A. Harper
- First published
- 1949
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 155
- ISBN
- 9781610160223
- Publisher
- FEE: 1949; Mises
- License
- Believed to be in the public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.
Liberty, ethics & philosophy The state & socialism
F.A. Harper was a leader in the libertarian movement from the 1950s and onward. Here is his early manifesto (1949), in which he reveals a sophisticated understanding of free markets and freedom but had not yet, as he later did, come around completely to the Rothbardian view on the possibilities of society without the state. Nonetheless, this is an important and beautiful book that shows Harper for the intellectual powerhouse that he truly was.
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- Is Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery free to download?
- Yes. The complete 155-page PDF and EPUB downloads directly from this page (7.8 MB). There is no signup, no account and no paywall.
- How long is Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery?
- 155 pages and 22 chapters in the edition this archive serves.
- Is Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery in the public domain?
- Believed so. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years only if someone filed a renewal, and no renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. That is a search result rather than a legal opinion: a renewal filed under a shortened title or a different claimant would not have been found. Some copies carry a rights notice, which records the original claim and does not extend a term that lapsed.
- Who wrote Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery?
- Floyd Arthur Harper (1905–1973), also known as "Baldy" Harper, was one of the great defenders of liberty during the mid-20th century. He wrote prolifically and founded the Institute for Humane Studies in 1961 in Menlo Park, California. This archive holds 4 of Harper's works.
What's in it
22 chapters · page numbers are this file's
- Cover Pagep. 2
- 1. The Nature of Libertyp. 9
- 2. Forms of Libertyp. 15
- 3. The Foundation of Economic Libertyp. 26
- 4. Liberty and Charityp. 34
- 5. Rules of Conduct in a Liberal Societyp. 39
- 6. Government in a Liberal Societyp. 45
- 7. Democracy and Libertyp. 50
- 8. Variation and Progressp. 58
- 9. The Uncommon Manp. 66
- 10. Government and Progressp. 75
- 11. Liberty and Peacep. 81
- 12. A Measure of Libertyp. 92
- 13. The Extent of Lost Libertyp. 104
- 14. Special Privilegep. 112
- 15. Recovering Libertyp. 116
- Appendicesp. 123
- Appendix Ip. 124
- Appendix II: Patterns of Variationp. 128
- Appendix III: Variation and Changep. 132
- Appendix IV: Progressp. 135
- Appendix V: Limitations of the Measure of Libertyp. 139
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