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Dept. of Libertarian Classics

Jesse Walker | 6.22.2010 2:42 PM


Now online as a free pdf: one of the best book-length introductions to libertarian ideas, David Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom. This is the second edition of the book, published in 1989; the original version appeared in 1973.

Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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