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What Went Wrong in Sweden?
Source: Timbro Institute
Author: Nils-Eric Sandberg
Country: Sweden

"In 1970 Sweden was the third richest country in the world. Today it has fallen to twentieth place. Nils-Eric Sandberg analyzes this drastic decline in a new book published by Timbro, the Swedish free-market think tank." Full text in English available online (PDF). Text in Swedish: Vad gick snett i Sverige? (8/98)

La Loi
Source: Cercle Frédéric Bastiat
Author: Frédéric Bastiat
Country: France

Bastiat's most popular polemical pamphlet, The Law, in its original French version.

Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Source: Cercle Frédéric Bastiat
Country: France
E-mail: contact@bastiat.net

In this section of the site of the Cercle Frédéric Bastiat, you will find, as a work in progress, the complete digitized works of the great French economist in the original French. Of the 333 writings discovered so far we counted on the site, well over one third is available at this writing (02/24/08), among them the most famous ones. Much more information, biographical and other, is also to be found on the site. Most of the works that have been translated into English are available from the Library of Economics and Liberty, based on the translations and print edition by the FEE. The few works that have been translated into English and digitized and that are not on the above site are available on the partner site bastiat.org of the Committee to Preserve the Works of Frédéric Bastiat, as well as translations in other languages, so far Spanish (including one broken link you can replace with these ones: La ley or La Ley). Translations into German are on bastiat.de.

The health care revolution in Stockholm
Source: Timbro
Country: Sweden

This small publication is the first English-language introduction to the Stockholm County Council's full-scale experiment in systematic change. The Council is attempting to transform public health care from an old-style, politically administered monopoly to the consumer-related, incentive-driven network of tomorrow. The book is online as a PDF file. (08/01/02)

Overfishing: The Icelandic Solution
Source: IEA
Author: Hannes H. Gissurarson
Country: Iceland

"In this monograph, Professor Gissurarson explains the Icelandic model of fisheries management, Individual Transferable Share Quotas (ITQs), implemented in 1979 to reverse the decline in Icelandic fish stocks." (PDF) (6/00)

Social Purity (1879): a machine-readable transcription
Source: Indiana University
Author: Josephine E. Butler (1828-1906)
Country: United Kingdom

A passionate plea for sexual freedom by Josephine Butler, who crusaded against the infamous Contagious Diseases Acts in Britain. It was first delivered in May, 1879.

The Convention – on the FutureS of Europe
Source: Bonde.com
Author: MEP Jens-Peter Bonde
Country: Denmark

Online book on the call for a Convention to prepare a European Constitution in 2002. Speaking against federalism, Member of the European Parliament Jens-Peter Bonde outlines an alternative for the future of Europe, and presents his vision for a slimmer and more democratic EU. (02/27/02)

Hayek, Currency Competition and European Monetary Union
Source: IEA
Author: Otmar Issing
Country: United Kingdom

"In the 1999 IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture, reprinted in Occasional Paper 111, Otmar Issing, the eminent monetary economist and one of Europe's most influential central bankers, discusses currency competition and European Monetary Union." (64pp, £4.00) (4/00) Or download full publication here (PDF). "This Occasional Paper also includes commentaries by two other distinguished economists - Professors Lawrence H. White and Roland Vaubel - who criticise Professor Issing's views. There is then an Afterword by Issing." Beware! This applies only to the printed pamphlet, unfortunately not to the "full publication" PDF (only 29pp).

The Village Commune, Vol. 1 (1881): a machine-readable transcription
Source: Indiana University
Author: Ouida (1839-1908)
Country: United Kingdom

Ouida or Marie Louise de la Ramée (two pen names; real name: Maria Louise Ramé) is a favorite author of Objectivists. Vol. 2. In English. (1881)

The Aphra Behn Page
Source: Isle of Lesbos
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: fb@sappho.com or info@alixnorth.com

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) has been called "the first woman in England to earn a living as a writer." This site offers a brief bio, selected poetry from Behn, a bibliography and links to her various online works, including two novels.

Caroline Norton on child custody – free online book
Source: Indiana University
Author: Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
Country: United Kingdom

"A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill," written under the pseudonym Pearce Stevenson, was Caroline Norton's plea to Parliament to allow mothers to appeal for custody of children under seven, and access to children under sixteen. Norton herself had to fight for her children. (1839)

English Laws for Women – free online book by Caroline Norton
Source: Universitry of Pennsylvania
Author: Caroline Norton
Country: United Kingdom

Caroline Norton wrote, "In consequence of the imperfect state of the law, I have suffered bitterly, and for a number of years: I have lately been insulted, defrauded, and libelled: and as the law is constituted I find redress impossible." Read her influential plea for equality under the law for women. (1854)

Woman Affranchised – free online book
Source: Sunshine for Women
Author: Jenny d'Héricourt
Country: France

Madame d'Héricourt's "A Woman's Philosophy of Woman; or Woman Affranchised. An Answer to Michelet, Proudhon, Girardin, Legouve, Comte, and Other Modern Innovators." This 1864 book is an early argument for men and women having identical rights.

The Rights of Women
Source: Sunshine for Women
Author: Olympe de Gouges
Country: France

Gouges' 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen (in France) remains a classic document in women's struggle for equality under the law. It opens, "Man, are you capable of being just?"

The Iniquity of State Regulated Vice – speech by Catherine Booth
Source: Indiana University
Author: Catherine Booth (1829-1890)
Country: United Kingdom

A speech delivered by Catherine Booth in London in 1884. Booth was prominent in the heroic crusade against the Contagious Disease Acts by which women were forced to undergo genital exams if they were suspected of prostitution by the police – who abused their power.

Prone to Violence
Source: Massey University
Author: Erin Pizzey
Country: United Kingdom

Free online book. Erin Pizzey founded the first refuge for battered wives in 1971. Her influential book "Prone to Violence" is representative of feminism in the 70's: grassroots, empowering, community-oriented, not appealing to government, but privately funded. Alternate link.

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