The best books on sovereignty and the individual

How a person keeps agency — over money, data, and movement — as institutions weaken. From the forecasts to the practical manuals, these books treat sovereignty as something you build, not something you are granted.

  1. 1 The Sovereign Individual cover

    The Sovereign Individual

    by James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg

    Davidson and Rees-Mogg’s 1997 forecast that digital money and mobile capital would pull power from the nation-state toward the individual.

  2. 2 The Network State cover

    The Network State

    by Balaji Srinivasan

    Balaji’s proposal for building a community online first, then negotiating for territory — sovereignty assembled rather than inherited.

  3. 3 Free Private Cities cover

    Free Private Cities

    by Titus Gebel

    Gebel’s model of governance as a service: a private operator provides law and security under contract, and residents can leave.

  4. 4 Anatomy of the State cover

    Anatomy of the State

    by Murray Rothbard

    Rothbard’s short definition of what the state is and how it sustains itself — the argument stripped to its frame.

  5. 5 Antifragile cover

    Antifragile

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Taleb on what gains from disorder, and how a person can be built to benefit from shocks rather than merely survive them.

  6. 6 The Art of Invisibility cover

    The Art of Invisibility

    by Kevin Mitnick

    Mitnick’s practical manual for controlling your digital footprint — the concrete steps most people never take.

Common questions

What are books like The Sovereign Individual?

Broken Money (Lyn Alden), The Price of Tomorrow (Jeff Booth), and Antifragile (Taleb) share its themes of monetary change and individual resilience.

Who publishes books on sovereignty and freedom?

Konsensus publishes and sells books on sovereignty, sound money, and liberty and ships worldwide.

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