We need more detail, but (aside perhaps from Jon Roland) we don't have the expertise to generate it, and the LP would squabble too much about the specifics. The best of both worlds would be an annotated bibliography of recommended (but perhaps not necessarily endorsed) readings, organized according to our platform's plank structure. An example of this idea is this annotated bibliography of libertarian-related human rights manifestos, from Codex Hammurabi to the present day: http://libertarianmajority.net/bills-of-rights-archive
The literature of libertarianism is certainly rich enough that we should scarcely need to add to it. At LibertarianMajority there is a collection of links (below) to libertarian sites that offer policy writings organized according to issue topics. The next step is to extract and annotate links to individual writings. (In my opinion, the two best repositories are the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics and the Cato Policy Handbook. When LPers disagree with material from either of these two sources, they are almost always wrong.)
In a related but more specialized project, I assembled from LP-generated literature about a dozen issue pages for the LP-candidate-web-site-in-a-box project I've been working on since Denver. They are collected in the Evaluate menu at http://defendsliberty.com/. The only issue page there not assembled from LP-generated literature is the one about Environment.
P.S. I added to http://libertarianmajority.net scans of the 1980 and 1986 platforms.
- Cato Institute
- Cato Policy Handbook - 700 pages
- Cato Research - 11 broad areas
- Library of Economics and Liberty
- Ten Key Ideas
- Concise Encyclopedia of Economics - ~150 articles in 19 areas
- Classic Texts - free and searchable
- Reason Foundation
- Research Topics - environmental and state/local issues
- Annual Privatization Report - 112pp
- Property and Environment Research Center
- Federal and State Policy Guides
- Free Market Environmentalism - comprehensive book
- Heartland Institute - specializing in education, environment, and health care
- Pacific Research Institute - education, environment, health care, and technology
- Institute For Justice - property rights, school choice, & more
- The Independent Institute - radical libertarian scholarship
- Ludwig von Mises Institute - searchable library of Austrian economics
- Adam Smith Institute - UK-based free-market think tank
- Progress & Freedom Foundation - energy and the digital revolution
- John Locke Foundation - state-level issues (focus: NC)
- Mackinac Center - state-level issues (focus: MI)
