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Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture

Paul A. Cantor Updated 5/14/2010

The economic interpretation of literature is dominated by ideas derived from Marxism — ideas that demonize the market as the enemy of all that is good. This book, edited by well-known literary critics Paul Cantor (University of Virginia) and Stephe...
Liberty and Property

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/10/2010

In 1956, the Mont Pelerin Society was entering a difficult period in which its intellectual lights were drifting away from liberalism of the old school. Ludwig von Mises used his speech that year to explain why this was a terrible trend. He didn'...
Essays on Freedom and Power

Lord Acton Updated 5/10/2010

Freedom and Power collects Lord Acton's most important writings on a theme that would define his reputation for more than a century: the corruptions of power. In addition, the reader learns from his love of liberty as the great creative force in...
Time Will Run Back

Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/20/2010

Here is a splendid novel by Henry Hazlitt, first published in 1951 and revised in 1966. The plot line explores the economic theories of capitalism and socialism. It begins in a fully socialist society in which the new leader, who finds himself in...
Harangue (The Trees Said to the Bramble Come Reign Over Us)

Garet Garrett Updated 4/20/2010

Garet Garrett wrote one last, and truly spectacular, novel called Harangue (The Trees Said to the Bramble Come Reign Over Us). The words are from the Bible (Judges 9:15, and the metaphor here refers to the strange penchant of the rich to fund soc...
Epistemological Problems of Economics

Ludwig von Mises Updated 4/20/2010

"The characteristic feature of this age of destructive wars and social disintegration is the revolt against economics." So says Ludwig von Mises in his most thorough defense of the method and scope of economic science. In this treatise,...