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Literature Library: free books from the Ludwig von Mises Institute: 2046 records

Gold, Peace, and Prosperity

Ron Paul Updated 4/7/2011

Revised Pocket Edition! The second edition of Gold, Peace, and Prosperity is just 4.25" x .4" x 7 " in size. Truly portable and available at volume discounts. The book has been newly type set and all images updated. This is the perfe...
In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918-1938

Butler Shaffer Updated 4/5/2011

This extremely important study by Butler Shaffer—professor of law and economist—will change the way you think of the relationship between the state and business. It makes a deep inquiry into the attitudes of business leaders toward competition during...
The New Deal in Old Rome

H. J. Haskell Updated 4/5/2011

How Government in the Ancient World Tried to Deal with Modern Problems What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. H.J. Haskell was a journalist with a huge background in ancient history, and here he does...
The Mainspring of Human Progress

Henry Grady Weaver Updated 4/4/2011

What has capitalism contributed to civilization? It made it. And nowhere has it thrived so beautifully as in America, the country that threw off the static old world to make a new one rooted in progress and individualism. With incredible eruditio...
Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation

Robert L. Scheuttinger Updated 4/2/2011

By special arrangement with the authors, the Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting the ma...
Free Markets, Property Rights and Climate Change: How to Privatize Climate Policy

Graham Dawson Updated 4/1/2011

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Response to Wisniewski on Abortion, Round Two

Walter Block Updated 4/1/2011

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The Economic Nobel Prize

Nikolay Gertchev Updated 4/1/2011

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Truth in Philosophy

Tibor R. Machan Updated 3/31/2011

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The Principles of Economics, With Applications to Practical Problems

Frank A. Fetter Updated 3/31/2011

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Century of War, A

John V. Denson Updated 3/31/2011

The horrors of the twentieth century could hardly have been predicted in the nineteenth century, which saw the eighteenth century end with the American Revolution bringing about the creation of the first classical liberal government in history. Th...
Well-Being and Objectivity

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski Updated 3/30/2011

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Response to Block on Abortion, Round Three

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski Updated 3/30/2011

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Defending the Undefendable

Walter Block Updated 3/30/2011

Professor Block's book is in a new edition from the Mises Institute, completely reset and beautifully laid out in an edition worthy of its contents. It is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial e...
Persuasion, Vol. 5, No. 1

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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 11

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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 12

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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 7

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Persuasion, Vol. 3, No. 2

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 12

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Unity and Integration in Ayn Rand’s <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>

Edward Wayne Younkins Updated 3/25/2011

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Review of Kosanke’s <i>Instead of Politics</i>

Don Stacy Updated 3/23/2011

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Business and Economic Change

Matt McCaffrey Updated 3/23/2011

Sponsored by Anastasia Thiele. Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute on Friday, 19 November 2010. [29:46]...
Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, A

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 3/23/2011

Here is Hans Hoppe's first treatise in English - actually his first book in English - and the one that put him on the map as a social thinker and economist to watch. He argued that there are only two possible archetypes in economic affairs: socia...
The Betrayal of the American Right

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 3/23/2011

This remarkable piece of history will change the way you look at American politics. It shows that the corruption of American "conservatism" began long before George W. Bush ballooned the budget and asserted dictatorial rights over the count...
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Persuasion, Vol. 3, No. 12

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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 10

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 10

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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 9

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Persuasion, Vol. 3, No. 9

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 9

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Persuasion, Vol. 1, No. 2

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 8

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Persuasion, Vol. 3, No. 7

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 7

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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 6

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 1

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Chaos Theory

Robert P. Murphy Updated 3/18/2011

Among the most advanced topics in the literature in the Austro-libertarian milieu is that which deals with the workings of the fully free society, that is, the society with no state, or anarcho-capitalism. Robert Murphy deals with this head on, and m...
Investment Chains Through History

Sudha R. Shenoy Updated 3/17/2011

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Against Intellectual Property

Stephan Kinsella Updated 3/14/2011

This monograph is justifiably considered a modern classic. It is by Stephan Kinsella who caused a worldwide rethinking among libertarians of the very basis of intellectual property. Mises had warned against patents, and Rothbard did too. But Kinsella...
The Trouble With Washington

Mises.org Updated 3/14/2011

Video version of Ron Paul's speech, "The Trouble With Washington", at the Prosperity, War & Depression seminar....
The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions

Eugen-Maria Schulak Updated 3/14/2011

The Austrian School is in the news as never before. It is discussed on business pages, academic journals, and speeches by public figures. At long last, there is a brilliant and engaging guide to the history, ideas, and institutions of the Austria...
Out of Step

Frank Chodorov Updated 3/11/2011

Frank Chodorov was a journalist of the Old Right with an extraordinary writing ability. He was also a top-notch intellectual figure who has been tragically neglected. This collection might be his best. Among the smashing essays here are: "Isolat...
The Rate of Interest: Its Nature, Determination, and Relation to Economic Phenomena

Irving Fisher Updated 3/10/2011

Personal copy of Frank Knight, with liner notes and markings....
Plato and the Spell of the State

Patrick Tinsley Updated 3/6/2011

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Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal

Ralph Raico Updated 3/1/2011

The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in sheep's clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights. In the backdr...
Of Private, Common, and Public Property and the Rationale for Total Privatization

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 2/23/2011

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