“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence. My breath is sweet to me. Oh how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment”.
Henry David Thoreau
For those of you who are interested in learning more about economics, the vision of our Founding Fathers, the role of government involvement in the lives of the citizenry and liberty, I recommend the following books:
Hamilton's Curse by Thomas DiLorenzo
JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity by Lawrence Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic
The FairTax Book by Neal Boortz and John Linder
1776 by David McCullough
A Republic - If we Can Keep it by Burton Folsom
Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman
The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes
The End of Prosperity by Arthur Laffer
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Making of Modern Economics by Mark Skousen
Vindicating the Founders by Thomas G. West
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
Give me a Break by John Stossel
The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
Your Money or Your Life by Sheldon Richman
The Triumph of Liberty by Jim Powell
FDR's Folly by Jim Powell
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
The Libertarian Reader by David Boaz
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman
Locke, Jefferson and the Justices by George M. Stephens
Empire Builders by Burton Fulsom
The Myth of the Robber Barrons by Burton Fulsom
Eat the Rich by P.J. O'Rourke
Lost Rights by James Bovard
Terrorism and Tyranny by James Bovard
An American Life by Ronald Reagan
Reagan's War by Peter Schweizer
The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell
The City on a Hill by Michael Reagan
The Ten Things You Can't Say in America by Larry Elder
More Liberty Means Less Government, Our Founders Knew this Well by Walter E. Williams
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Education and Capitalism by Herbert J. Walberg and Joseph L. Bast
Eco-nomics by Richard L. Stroup
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
I am particularly fond of the classic work on the issue of liberty and socialism by Frederic Bastiat. Bastiat was a renowned economist and defender of economic liberty. The Law is less than 80 pages long but is a wonderful place to start if you are searching for a new way of looking at how government uses our money.
