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The Law - Frédéric Bastiat. http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

Capitalism - A Treatise on Economics - George Reisman. http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM_Internet.pdf

The Works of Lysander Spooner. http://lysanderspooner.org/node/2

The Machinery of Freedom David Friedman. - http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf

Democratizing Innovation - Eric Von Hippel. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm

The Sources of Innovation - Eric Von Hippel. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/sources.htm

Introduction to Information Retrieval - http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/irbook.html

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - David MacKay. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html

Introduction to Cybernetics - William Ross Ashby. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf

"Man-Computer Symbiosis" and "The Computer As A Communication Device" - J.C.R. Licklider. http://memex.org/licklider.pdf

Design For A Brain - William Ross Ashby. https://archive.org/details/designforbrainor00ashb

The Writings of Douglas Engelbart. http://www.dougengelbart.org/library/library.html

and if you like maths, don't miss this great list of free maths texts by George Cain: https://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.h...




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