Books to support FTI’s effort

Required readings (any three of these five)

  1. The Constitution of Liberty by F.A. Hayek
  2. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
  3. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan and Robert Hessen
  4. The Ultimate Resource II by Julian Simon
  5. Breaking Free of Nehru by Sanjeev Sabhlok

Principles of the Freedom Team

While a 'principles' document will be created for this effort in due course, the following links are provided in the meanwhile.

  1. The Basic Principles of FTI
  2. Our Freedom: Our Accountability by Sanjeev Sabhlok (PDF)
  3. 21 Principles of Swatantra by Swatantra Party (Word doc)
  4. Assumptions of a liberal -draft
  5. Ayn Rand's summary of her own views (the 4 points at the bottom of this page: http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_intro )

Some other recommended readings

  1. The Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich A. Hayek (PDF)
  2. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek (Reader Digest condensed version | artoon version | Condensed version)
  3. India Unbound by Gurcharan Das
  4. Capitalism by George Reisman
  5. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (Word document)
  6. The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism by Amy H. Sturgis
  7. Treatise on Government by John Locke (Word document)
  8. Letter on Locke by Voltaire (Word document)
  9. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Word document)
  10. Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (Word document)
  11. Soul of liberalism by James Buchanan (PDF)
  12. The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
  13. Liberalism by Ludwig Von Mises
  14. Good to Great by Jim Collins
  15. Book in progress: The Discovery of Freedom by Sanjeev Sabhlok

Textbooks

  1. (Economics) Microeconomics and Behavior, by Robert H. Frank, Cornell University
  2. (Public choice) Democracy and Welfare Economics by Hans van den Doel and Ben van Velthoven