Main papers, essays, and books per topic are included below.
Economy:
Friedrich Hayek — The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945)
📄 PDF: https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html
Milton Friedman — The Methodology of Positive Economics (1953)
📄 PDF: https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/MethodologyFriedman.pdf
Ronald Coase — The Problem of Social Cost (1960)
📄 PDF: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/file/coase-problem.pdf
Milton Friedman — Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
📄 PDF: https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/internal/media/dispatcher/214957/full
Ludwig von Mises — Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth (1920)
📄 PDF: https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth
James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock — The Calculus of Consent (1962)
📄 PDF: https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/buchanan-the-calculus-of-consent
Friedrich Hayek — The Road to Serfdom (1944)
📄 PDF: https://cdn.mises.org/Road%20to%20Serfdom.pdf
Israel Kirzner — Competition and Entrepreneurship (1973)
📄 PDF excerpt: https://cdn.mises.org/Competition%20and%20Entrepreneurship_3.pdf
Friedrich Hayek — The Pretence of Knowledge (1974 Nobel Lecture)
📄 PDF: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/hayek-lecture.pdf
Ludwig von Mises — Human Action (1949)
📄 PDF: https://mises.org/library/human-action-0
Education:
Milton Friedman — The Role of Government in Education (1955)
📄 PDF: Read the PDF
G. West — Education and the State: A Study in Political Economy (1965)
📄 PDF / book info: Book page and overview
Murray Rothbard — Education: Free and Compulsory (1971)
📄 PDF: Download the PDF
James Tooley — Education Without the State (1998)
📄 PDF: Download the PDF
James Tooley — The Role of Government in Education Revisited (2014)
📄 Article: View article page
G. West — Government Failure and Education
📄 PDF: Download the PDF
Bryan Caplan — The Case Against Education (2018)
(Not a single paper but a major academic work.)
Joel Spring — A Primer of Libertarian Education (1975)
Full text available online.
Lindsay Paterson — Liberals, Libertarians and Educational Theory
📄 Academic paper: Read the article
John Taylor Gatto — Against School / The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher
(Not strictly academic economics but influential in libertarian education debates.)
Healthcare:
Milton Friedman — How to Cure Health Care (2001)
📄 PDF: https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/internal/media/dispatcher/214058/full
Friedrich Hayek — The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945)
📄 PDF: https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html
Milton Friedman — How to Cure the Health Care Crisis (Wall Street Journal essay)
📄 PDF: https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/friedman_cure_healthcare_crisis.pdf
Mark Pauly — Taxation, Health Insurance, and Market Failure (1968)
📄 PDF: https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c3703/c3703.pdf
John C. Goodman — Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World
📄 PDF: https://www.independent.org/pdf/books/livesatrisk.pdf
John C. Goodman — Patient Power
📄 PDF: https://www.independent.org/pdf/books/patient_power.pdf
Daniel Klein — The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods? (healthcare debates)
📄 PDF: https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_01_3_klein.pdf
David Goldhill — How American Health Care Killed My Father (2009)
Bryan Caplan — The Myth of the Rational Voter (health policy implications)
📄 Excerpts: https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/HealthCareMarketFailures.html
Arnold Kling — Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care
📄 PDF excerpt: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2007/1/cj27n1-9.pdf
Tax Reform:
Milton Friedman — Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
📄 PDF: https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/internal/media/dispatcher/214957/full
Robert Hall & Alvin Rabushka — The Flat Tax (1983)
📄 PDF excerpt: https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/flat_tax.pdf
James Buchanan & Geoffrey Brennan — The Power to Tax (1980)
📄 PDF excerpt: https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/brennan-the-power-to-tax
Irving Fisher — Constructive Income Taxation (1942)
📄 PDF: https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/fisher-constructive-income-taxation
Edward Prescott — Why Do Americans Work So Much More Than Europeans? (2004)
📄 PDF: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/wp/wp321.pdf
Arthur Laffer — The Laffer Curve: Past, Present, and Future
📄 PDF: https://www.heritage.org/taxes/report/the-laffer-curve-past-present-and-future
David Bradford — Blueprints for Basic Tax Reform (1977)
📄 PDF: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/Documents/blueprints-basic-tax-reform.pdf
Milton Friedman — A Proposal for a Negative Income Tax
📄 PDF: https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/internal/media/dispatcher/214266/full
Robert Lucas — Supply-Side Economics: An Analytical Review (1990)
📄 PDF: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/qr/qr1421.pdf
Alan Auerbach — Consumption Tax Options for the United States (1997)
📄 PDF: https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c0287/c0287.pdf
Environment:
Ronald Coase — The Problem of Social Cost (1960)
📄 PDF: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/file/coase-problem.pdf
Terry L. Anderson & Donald R. Leal — Free Market Environmentalism (1991)
📄 PDF excerpt: https://www.perc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/free-market-environmentalism.pdf
Harold Demsetz — Toward a Theory of Property Rights (1967)
📄 PDF: https://coase.org/harolddemsetz.pdf
Julian Simon — The Ultimate Resource (1981)
📄 PDF: https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Ultimate%20Resource%202.pdf
Bjorn Lomborg — The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001)
Full text excerpts available online.
Elinor Ostrom — Governing the Commons (1990)
📄 PDF excerpt: https://wtf.tw/ref/ostrom_1990.pdf
Terry L. Anderson — Environmental Federalism (1998)
📄 PDF: https://www.perc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/environmental-federalism.pdf
Bruce Yandle — Bootleggers and Baptists (1983)
📄 PDF: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/articles/yandle-bootleggers-baptists.pdf
Peter J. Hill & Terry L. Anderson — The Not So Wild Wild West (2004)
📄 PDF excerpt: https://www.perc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/not-so-wild-wild-west.pdf
Terry L. Anderson & Laura Huggins — Greener Than Thou (2008)
📄 PDF excerpt: https://www.perc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/greener-than-thou.pdf
Foreign Policy:
George Washington — Farewell Address (1796)
📄 PDF / full text: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
Ludwig von Mises — Liberalism (1927)
📄 PDF: https://cdn.mises.org/Liberalism%20In%20The%20Classical%20Tradition_3.pdf
Friedrich Hayek — The Road to Serfdom (1944)
📄 PDF: https://cdn.mises.org/Road%20to%20Serfdom.pdf
Milton Friedman — Why Government Is the Problem (1993)
📄 PDF: https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/internal/media/dispatcher/214367/full
Ron Paul — A Foreign Policy of Freedom (2007)
📄 PDF: https://mises.org/library/foreign-policy-freedom
Christopher Coyne — After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (2007)
📄 PDF excerpt: https://mises.org/library/after-war
Christopher Coyne — Doing Bad by Doing Good (2013)
📄 PDF excerpt: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23241
Richard Cobden — The Political Writings of Richard Cobden
📄 PDF: https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/cobden-the-political-writings-of-richard-cobden
Frédéric Bastiat — The Law (1850)
📄 PDF: https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Law.pdf
Justin Logan — What Is Libertarian Foreign Policy? (2014)
📄 PDF: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa756.pdf