Free digital copies of some of the books for the course:

Buchanan The Limits of Liberty

Rousseau The Basic Political Writings

Locke Political Writings

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Other Readings:

Michael Oakeshott "An Introduction to Leviathan"

David Schmidtz "The Institution of Property"

David Hume "Of the Original Contract" (excerpt)
                    "full version"

David Gauthier "Why Contractarianism?"

John Rawls "Outline for a Decision Procedure for Ethics"

John Rawls "Justice as Fairness"

James Buchanan "Politics Without Romance"