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The Institute of Public Affairs - Top 20 Books

In July 2006 the Australian think-tank, the Institute of Public Affairs published its list of the "Top 20 books you must read before you die."
1. The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (Tullock, Gordon. Selections. V. 2.)
by Gordon Tullock
  
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 Australia  
3. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
by Milton Friedman
  
4. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics)
by Edmund Burke
  
5. The Law
by Frederic Bastiat
  
6. Anarchy, State and Utopia
by Robert Nozick
  
7.
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 An Economic History of Australia
by Edward O. Shann
  
8. Cato's Letters or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects : Four Volumes in Two
by John Trenchard
  
9. The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge Classics)
by Karl R. Popper
  
10. The ROad to Serfdom (Routledge Classics S.)
by F.A. Hayek
  
11. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
12. The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics)
by Adam Smith
  
13. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
by Ludwig Von Mises
  
14. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
by Henry Hazlitt
  
15.
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 Centesimus Annus the Social Teaching of the Church Encyclical Letter of His Holiness John Paul 11 on the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
by John Paul 11
  
16. Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
  
17. Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
  
18. Two Treatises of Government And a Letter Concerning Toleration
by John Locke
  
19. On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Stuart Mill
  
20. The Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to Radical Capitalism
by David D. Friedman
  
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