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The recommended readings below are designed to raise questions, many of which will be discussed in seminar lectures. While the readings are not required—lecturers will not necessarily refer to them during their talks—participants may find them helpful in stimulating thought about the issues covered at the seminar.

• Peter McWilliams, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country
• Frederic Bastiat, "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen"
• F.A. Hayek, "The Use of Knowledge in Society"
• Michael Huemer, "Why People Are Irrational About Politics"
• J.S. Mill, "Introductory"
• James Gwartney and Richard Wagner, "The Public Choice Revolution" 
• Milton and Rose Friedman, "Free to Choose" (PBS Series)
• Tim Harford, "Why Poor Countries are Poor"
• James Madison, "Federalist no. 10"
• John Stuart Mill, "Objections to Government Interference,"  On Liberty
• Thomas Paine, "Common Sense"
• Leonard Read, "I, Pencil."
• Kurt Vonnegut, "Harrison Bergeron"