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• The Economics and the Ethics of Constitutional Order (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1991), by James M. Buchanan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy, by Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan (HTML at econlib.org)

• Democracy and Power: The Delhi Lectures (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2014), by Noam Chomsky, contrib. by Jean Drèze (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Balancing Power without Weapons: State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), by Ashley Thomas Lenihan (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)

• Diversity in Development: Reconsidering the Washington Consensus (2004), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)

• The Economic Consequences of Scottish Independence (Hamburg, Germany: Helmut-Schmidt-Univ, 2014), ed. by David N. F. Bell, David Eiser, and Klaus Beckmann (PDF with commentary at scotecon.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Economy, Society, and Public Policy (London: CORE Project, c2019), ed. by Wendy Carlin, Samuel Bowles, Margaret Stevens, and Eileen Liong Tipoe (multimedia at core-econ.org)
• Economic Fables (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2012), by Ariel Rubinstein
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google
• Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition (London and New York: Routledge, c2011), ed. by Andrew Farrant
  • PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
• The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and its Discontents (c2007), by Lee Boldeman (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Principles of Economics (electronic edition, c2007), by Carl Menger, trans. by James Dingwall and Bert F. Hoselitz, contrib. by Peter G. Klein and Friedrich A. von Hayek (PDF and Epub at mises.org)
• Man, Economy, and State; with Power and Market (scholar's edition, 2004), by Murray N. Rothbard, contrib. by Joseph R. Stromberg (HTML and PDF at mises.org)
• Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003), by Michael Albert (HTML with commentary at zcomm.org)
• How the Dismal Science Got its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by David M. Levy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (scholar's edition; Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, c1998), by Ludwig Von Mises (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (4th edition, 1996), by Ludwig Von Mises (HTML at econlib.org)
• Making Economic Sense (1995), by Murray N. Rothbard (HTML and PDF at mises.org)
• The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt (c1993), by Henry Hazlitt (multiple formats with commentary at fee.org)
• The Pure Logic of Choice (1986), by Richard D. Fuerle (HTML with commentary at purelogic.us)
• Transaction Based Economics: What Small Business Experience Teaches About Economic Theory (third edition, 1986), by Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)
• No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism (originally published 2015), by Steven Shaviro (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Exploring Business (version 2.0, derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Karen Collins (PDF at saylor.org)
• Principles of Macroeconomics (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2009), by Libby Rittenberg and Timothy D. Tregarthen (PDF at saylor.org)
• Principles of Microeconomics (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2009), by Libby Rittenberg and Timothy D. Tregarthen (PDF at saylor.org)
• The Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought (second edition; Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, c1976), by Israel M. Kirzner
  • HTML at econlib.org
  • PDF at mises.org
• Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory: The Economic Agent (2006), by Ariel Rubinstein
  • PDF files at Princeton
  • PDF in Israel
• Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School (second edition, c2004), by Gene Callahan (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• The Economic Interpretation of History (as published in Political Science Quarterly, 1901-1902; reprinted Kitchener: Batoche Books, 1999), by Edwin R. A. Seligman (PDF at McMaster)
• Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, c1998), by George Reisman (PDF at mises.org)
• Free Innovation (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Eric von Hippel (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (1957), by Ludwig Von Mises, contrib. by Murray N. Rothbard (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• Writings on Economics (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1955), by David Hume, ed. by Eugene Rotwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is Economics? (New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1954), by Rosa Luxemburg, trans. by T. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economics in One Lesson (special edition for the Foundation for Economic Education, 1952), by Henry Hazlitt (PDF with commentary at fee.org)
• A Reconstruction of Economics (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1950), by Kenneth E. Boulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Can Capitalism Survive? (1979), by Benjamin A. Rogge (HTML at econlib.org)
• Indidivualism and Economic Order (c1948), by Friedrich A. von Hayek (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• The American Individual Enterprise System: Its Nature, Evolution, and Future (2 volumes; New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1946), by National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, c2004), by Ron Paul (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• Economic Welfare (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1936), by Oscar Newfang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), by John Maynard Keynes (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Anything That's Peaceful: The Case for the Free Market (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1964), by Leonard E. Read (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• Harvard Economic Studies, by Harry Dexter White (partial serial archives)
• What Everyone Should Know About Economics and Prosperity (Canadian adaptation; Vancouver: Fraser Institute, c1993), by James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, and Michael Walker (PDF with commentary at Fraser Institute)
• Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (32 volumes (omits 33rd index volume); Toronto: University of Toronto Press; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963-1991), by John Stuart Mill, ed. by John M. Robson (at oll.libertyfund.org)
• Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth; The Remedy (50th anniversary edition; New York: The Modern Library, 1929), by Henry George
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Synthetic Economics (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Henry Ludwell Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Equitable Society and How to Create It (New York: Vanguard Press, The Equitist League, 1927), by W. E. Brokaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Acquisitive Society (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1920), by R. H. Tawney (page images at Michigan)
• The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy (second edition), by John Elliott Cairnes (PDF at McMaster)
• The Common Sense of Political Economy, by Philip H. Wicksteed (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• Conversations on Political Economy, In Which the Elements of That Science are Familiarly Explained (fifth edition; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824), by Mrs. Marcet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• CyberEconomics: An Analysis of Unintended Consequences, by Robert E. Schenck (multimedia at ingrimayne.com)
• Economic Harmonies, by Frédéric Bastiat, trans. by George B. de Huszar (frame-dependent HHTML at econlib.org)
• Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow, by Ludwig Von Mises, contrib. by Bettina Bien Greaves (multiple formats with commentary at mises.org)
• The Economics of Distribution (New York and London: Macmillan, 1900), by J. A. Hobson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Economics of Socialism (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), by H. M. Hyndman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Elements of Political Economy (3rd edition, 1844), by James Mill (HTML at McMaster)
• Elements of Political Economy, With Special Reference to the Industrial History of Nations (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1882), by Robert Ellis Thompson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Epistemological Problems of Economics, by Ludwig Von Mises, trans. by George Reisman (multiple formats with commentary at mises.org)
• Essays (Cardiff: Society for the Improvement of the Working Population in the County of Glamorgan, 1831), by Mrs. Marcet (HTML at econlib.org)
• Essays Designed to Elucidate the Science of Political Economy, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
• Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy (second edition), by John Stuart Mill
  • PDF at McMaster
  • HTML at econlib.org
• Grundlegung der Politischen Oekonomie (from the series Lehr- und Handbuch der Politischen Oekonomie; 2 volumes in German; Leipzig: C. F. Winter, 1892-1894), by Adolph Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundriss zu Vorlesungen Über die Staatswirthschaft, Nach Geschichtlicher Methode (in German; Göttingen: Druck und Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1843), by Wilhelm Roscher
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of Economics (London: Bliss, Sands and Co., 1896), by Henry Dunning Macleod (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy, by James Steuart (text files at McMaster)
• Introduction to Economic Analysis (electronic editions), by R. Preston McAfee (PDF with commentary at introecon.com)
• Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (second edition, 1832), by Richard Whately (HTML at econlib.org)
• John Hopkins's Notions on Political Economy (1833), by Mrs. Marcet
  • HTML at econlib.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters, by David D. Friedman
  • JavaScript-dependent page images at daviddfriedman.com
  • HTML of prepublication draft at daviddfriedman.com
• Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce, by Jean Baptiste Say (HTML at McMaster)
• Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (illustrated HTML at zcomm.org)
• A Manual of Political Economy (New York: G. P. Putnam and Son, 1868), by E. Peshine Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuale di Economia Politica; con una Introduzione alla Scienza Sociale (in Italian; Milan: Societa Editrice Libraria, 1919), by Vilfredo Pareto (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The National System of Political Economy, by Friedrich List, trans. by Sampson S. Lloyd (text files at McMaster)
• The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation, and Other Essays (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Thorstein Veblen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Political Economy (third edition, 1854), by Nassau William Senior (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• Political Economy, by J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi (text at McMaster)
• Political Economy For Beginners (10th edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1911), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Political Economy for the People, by George Tucker (page images at MOA)
• The Political Economy of Participatory Economics, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (HTML at zcomm.org)
• Principles of Economics (8th edition, 1920), by Alfred Marshall (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Principles of Economics, With Applications to Practical Problems (New York: The Century Co., 1905), by Frank A. Fetter (PDF with commentary at mises.org)
• Principles of Political Economy, by John Stuart Mill (text files at McMaster)
• Principles of Political Economy, by John Stuart Mill, ed. by W. J. Ashley (HTML at econlib.org)
• Principles of Political Economy (abridged with notes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1885), by John Stuart Mill, ed. by J. Laurence Laughlin (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Principles of Political Economy (3 volumes; London: A. and C. Black, 1893), by J. Shield Nicholson
  • Volume I (books 1 and 2): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (book 3): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (books 4 and 5): multiple formats at archive.org
• Principles of Political Economy (2 volumes; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1878), by Wilhelm Roscher, trans. by John J. Lalor, contrib. by L. Wolowski
  • Volume I: PDF at McMaster
  • Volume II: PDF at McMaster
• The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (third edition, 1821), by David Ricardo (text files at McMaster)
• Principles of Political Economy, Deduced From the Natural Laws of Social Welfare, and Applied to the Present State of Britain (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833), by George Poulett Scrope
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Principles of the Economic Philosophy of Society, Government and Industry, by Van Buren Denslow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Process Engineering Economics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1955), by Herbert E. Schweyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress and Poverty (1953 abridged edition, with modern commentary), by Henry George (illustrated HTML at henrygeorge.org)
• Questions of the Day: Economic and Social, by William Elder (page images at MOA)
• Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth, by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (text at McMaster)
• The Science of Wealth: A Manual of Political Economy, by Amasa Walker (page images at MOA)
• The Scope and Method of Political Economy, by John Neville Keynes (PDF at McMaster)
• Selected Essays on Political Economy, by Frédéric Bastiat, trans. by Seymour Cain (HTML at econlib.org)
• Six Lectures on Political Economy, by William Whewell (HTML at McMaster)
• Speculations From Political Economy, by Charles Baron Clarke (Gutenberg text)
• System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery, by P.-J. Proudhon (HTML at Virginia)
• Tales in Political Economy (London: Macmillan and Co., 1874), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some pages may be cut off
• That Which is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen, by Frédéric Bastiat (HTML at bastiat.org)
• Theorie der Wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung (in German; Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1912), by Joseph A. Schumpeter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Theory of Political Economy (third edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1888), by William Stanley Jevons (HTML at econlib.org)
• Thoughts on the Funding System, and Its Effects, by Piercy Ravenstone (HTML at McMaster)
• A Treatise on Political Economy (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1880), by Jean Baptiste Say, ed. by Clement C. Biddle, trans. by C. R. Prinsep
  • PDF at McMaster
  • HTML at econlib.org
• The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, by Ludwig Von Mises (multiple formats with commentary at mises.org)
• Unto This Last, by John Ruskin
  • PDF at text at forget-me.net
  • text at McMaster
• Unto This Last: A Paraphrase, by John Ruskin, ed. by Mahatma Gandhi, trans. by Valaji Govindaji Desai (multiple formats at mkgandhi.org)
• Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Grundriss der Sozialökonomik v3, in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1922), ed. by Max Weber
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Early Economic Thought: Selections From Economic Literature Prior to Adam Smith (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951), ed. by Arthur Eli Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economic Interpretation of History (second edition, revised; New York: Columbia University Press, 1934), by Edwin R. A. Seligman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secular Movements in Production and Prices: Their Nature and Their Bearing Upon Cyclical Fluctuations (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1930), by Simon Kuznets (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of Political Education (volume 1 apparently only volume published; Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., c1926), by A. Berdnikov and F. Svetlov, ed. by Nikolaĭ Bukharin, trans. by N. I. Kishor, contrib. by Alex Bittelman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adam Smith and Modern Sociology: A Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences, by Albion W. Small (PDF at McMaster)
• Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (3 volumes; Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1906-1909), by Karl Marx, ed. by Friedrich Engels, trans. by Samuel Moore, Edward B. Aveling, and Ernest Untermann
  • all volumes (in various printings): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (The Process of Capitalist Production): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I: HTML with commentary at econlib.org
  • Volume II (The Process of Circulation of Capital; 1913 printing): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: HTML with commentary at econlib.org
  • Volume III (The Process of Capitalist Production As a Whole): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: HTML with commentary at econlib.org
• Catechism of Karl Marx's "Capital" (St. Louis: Economic publishing company, c1905), by Lewis Cass Fry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Das Kapital: Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie (only edition published in Marx's lifetime, consisting of only first volume; in German; Hamburg: O. Meissner, 1867), by Karl Marx (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Das Kapital: Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie (complete work, 3 volumes in 4, in German; Hamburg: O. Meissner, 1867-1894), by Karl Marx, ed. by Friedrich Engels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, by Karl Marx (HTML at marxists.org)
• The Economic Interpretation of History (revised for book publication; New York: Columbia University Press and Macmillan; London: Macmillan, 1902), by Edwin R. A. Seligman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Essai Sur La Nature du Commerce en General (in English), by Richard Cantillon
  • text files at McMaster
  • HTML at econlib.org
• Extracts from the Capital of Karl Marx (Hoboken, NJ: F. A. Sorge, ca. 1875), by Karl Marx, trans. by Otto Weydemeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instead of a Book, By a Man Too Busy to Write One (based on the second edition, 1897), by Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (HTML at fair-use.org)
• Letters of David Ricardo to Hutches Trower and Others, 1811-1823 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1899), by David Ricardo, ed. by James Bonar and Jacob H. Hollander
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • page images at Michigan
• Liberalism (electronic editions), by Ludwig Von Mises (multiple formats with commentary at mises.org)
• Political Ideals, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)
• Practical Moral and Political Economy: or, The Government, Religion, and Institutions Most Conducive to Individual Happiness and to National Power (London: E. Wilson, 1828), by T. R. Edmonds
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations, by Karl Marx, trans. by Jack Cohen (HTML at marxists.org)
• Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy, by John Rae (HTML at McMaster; 1 MB)
• Una Revolucion en Economia Política: Esposicion de las Doctrinas de M. Macleod (in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Imp. "La América del Sud", 1876), by Henri Richelot, trans. by M. Ugarte and A. Navarro Viola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Une Révolution en Économie Politique: Exposé des Doctrines de M. Macleod (in French; Paris: Capelle, 1863), by Henri Richelot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice (c1920), by Stephen Leacock
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government, by P.-J. Proudhon (HTML at Virginia)
• What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (originally published 1883; added introduction dated 1951), by William Graham Sumner, contrib. by William Clinton Mullendore (Gutenberg text)
• The Cabinet Of Arts: or, General Instructor In Arts, Science, Trade, Practical Machinery, the Means of Preserving Human Life, and Political Economy, Embracing a Variety of Important Subjects (London: J.M'Gowan, ca. 1825), by Hewson Clarke and John Dougall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic Science and the Austrian Method, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (HTML at mises.org)
• Individual Liberty, by Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (HTML at blackened.net)
• The Social Contract, and Discourses, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman, by Lyndon H. LaRouche and David P. Goldman (PDF at wlym.com)
• The Vested Interests and the Common Man, by Thorstein Veblen (text at McMaster)
• The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts ("The Modern Point of View and the New Order") (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Thorstein Veblen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Studies in the Theory of International Trade (originally published 1937), by Jacob Viner (HTML at econlib.org)
• Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science, by Friedrich Engels, trans. by Emile Burns (HTML at marxists.org)
• Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles, by Jesús Huerta de Soto, trans. by Melinda A. Stroup (PDF at mises.org)

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