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Classical Liberalism and Civil Society
Source: Amazon.com/Edward Elgar (Pub.)
Author: Charles K. Rowley
Country: United States

This book provides a robust defense of the concept of classical liberalism in modern "civil" society. (4/98; Amazon price $95)

Limited Government, Individual Liberty and the Rule of Law: Selected Works of Arthur Asher Shenfield
Source: Amazon.com/Edward Elgar (Pub.)
Author: Norman Barry (Ed.)
Country: United States

This volume offers a selection of essays by a persuasive and sophisticated theorist of the free economy and free society. Included works address socialism and welfarism worldwide, and constitutionalism and law in the United States. (12/98; Amazon price $100)

On Liberty, Society and Politics: The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumner
Source: Liberty Fund/Amazon.com
Author: William Graham Sumner (Robert C. Bannister, ed.)
Country: United States

33 seminal writings from the creator of "the forgotten man" so misused by FDR. Sumner, although fully in the classical liberal tradition, is most often tarred with the brush of "social Darwinism." Liberty Fund 1992, hardcover, 423 p., $20.00 from Amazon.

Lord Acton biography
Source: Acton Institute
Author: Roland Hill
Country: United States

Published by the Yale University Press, this new book examines the life of the renowned 19th century classical-liberal thinker and parliamentarian. (2000)

The changing fortunes of economic liberalism
Source: IPA
Author: David Henderson
Country: United States

"[E]conomic liberalism goes back about two and a half centuries. Over that period ... liberalism was generally in decline ... up to the late 1970s. But over the last two decades many governments have adopted reform programmes which have liberalised their economies and made international transactions freer." 100pp A$24.95 (1998)

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