📚 Free Enterprise

The system and its defence literature: competition, regulation and the merits both sides keep claiming.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject free enterprise in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Shock Doctrine	Naomi Klein	2007	34
	Free to choose	Milton Friedman	1980	28
	Development as Freedom	Amartya Sen	1999	19
	Capitalism and freedom	Milton Friedman	1962	14
	Profit over People	Noam Chomsky	1998	12
	A Brief History of Neoliberalism	David Harvey	2005	10
	Laissez faire and the general-welfare state	Sidney Fine	1956	8
	Classical Liberalism and International Economic Order	Razeen Sally	1998	8
	Capitalism	Victor D. Lippit	2005	8
	The capitalist's bible	Gretchen Morgenson	2009	8
	Political Economy and Capitalism	Maurice Herbert Dobb	2012	8
	What's yours is mine	Tom Slee	2015	8
	America's great depression	Murray N. Rothbard	1963	7
	Liberalism and the good	R. Bruce Douglass	1990	7
	New Visions for Market Governance	Kate Macdonald	2012	7
	Laissez-faire and communism	John Maynard Keynes	1926	6
	Liberty, Desert and the Market	Serena Olsaretti	2004	6
	The Market, Happiness, and Solidarity	Johan J. Graafland	2010	6
	Market and Other Orders	Bruce Caldwell	2014	6
	Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Finance in the 21st Century	Patrick O'Sullivan	2015	6
	The Fatal Conceit	Friedrich A. von Hayek	1988	5
	Hand Behind the Invisible Hand	Karl Mittermaier	1997	5
	Contre-feux	Pierre Bourdieu	1998	5
	Common Sense Economics	James D. Gwartney	2010	5
	The Darwin Economy	Robert H. Frank	2011	5
	Economy and Society	Robert J. Holton	2013	5
	Choice	Robert P. Murphy	2015	5
	The Great Reversal	Thomas Philippon	2019	5
	Die Maxime Laissez faire et laissez passer	Oncken, August	1886	4
	Economic liberalism	Hermann Levy	1913	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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