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Alphabetical List of all Authors | Key Authors | Major Collections

These are places to go to if you are looking for People:

• Search for a Name by key word
• View an alphabetical list of all authors
• People are organized into “groups”, such as:
  • Historical Period, e.g. the Eighteenth Century
  • Schools of Thought, e.g. the Austrian School of Economics or the Scottish Enlightenment
  • Other Groups, e.g. Women on Liberty
  • See a list of all groups of people and collections of titles
• Information about key authors can be found in the Study Guides which include biographies, timelines of their life and work, and other essays on Key Authors
• For information about Books/Titles and Ideas please see the relevant sections of this website.
• More information about the Authors can be found below.

More Information about the Authors

Historical Periods: Every author in the OLL collection is assigned to an Historical Period.

Schools of Thought: Where appropriate, an author is assigned to a School of Thought of like-minded individuals, such as the Austrian School of Economics, the French Enlightenment, or the Philosophic Radicals.

Other Groups: Authors also can also be members of other groups which are less formally connected with other, such as the following

• authors published by Liberty Fund
• the list of individuals engraved on the walls in the Goodrich Seminar Room at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. These 100 or so authors very much influenced the thinking of Pierre Goodrich who founded Liberty Fund in 1960
• our collection of Women Authors on liberty

Essays on Key Authors: For some of the more important authors in the OLL collection we have gathered material by them or about them in order to make it easier to find out more about their life and work. These authors include James Buchanan, F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Frédéric Bastiat, and Adam Smith.

Study Guides: There are numerous Study Guides to assisted in learning about the content of the OLL website, such as Bibliographies, Biographies, and Timelines. Wherever possible, we provide links to the books by the authors in order to encourage further reading.

Other Resources: From time to time we commemorate the life and work of important authors with an Obituary or celebrate them by marking their Anniversary.

Last modified August 17, 2015