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

Self-Ownership, World-Ownership, and Initial Acquisition

Tristan Rogers Updated 11/14/2010

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Human Nature, Flourishing, and Happiness: Toward a Synthesis of Aristotelianism, Austrian Economics, Positive Psychology, and Ayn Rand’s Objectivism

Edward Wayne Younkins Updated 11/14/2010

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Objections to the Libertarian Stem Cell Compromise

Walter Block Updated 11/13/2010

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Systems Thinking for an Economically Literate Society

Michael F. Reber Updated 11/10/2010

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Rejoinder to Wisniewski on Abortion

Walter Block Updated 11/10/2010

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Rejoinder to Borer on the NAP

Walter Block Updated 11/10/2010

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Distributive Justice and Free Market Economics: A Eudaimonistic Perspective

Michael F. Reber Updated 11/10/2010

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Critique of Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter

Stuart Farrand Updated 11/10/2010

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Libertarianism and Immigration

Diana Virginia Todea Updated 11/10/2010

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Liberty Magazine 22.6

Liberty Publishing Updated 11/10/2010

Who Caused the Mortgage Crisis? Edmund Contoski; American Revolution, Right or Wrong? Ronald Hamowy; Libertarians Invade Washington, Bruce Ramsey; Summer Books; Jo Ann Skousen and Mark Rand on Ben Stein; Sandy Shaw on the Libertarian brain...
A Competitive Market in Human Organs

Danny Frederick Updated 11/7/2010

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Liberty Magazine 2.5

Liberty Publishing Updated 11/5/2010

Man, Nature, and State: Free Market Slogans Are Not Enough, Karl Hess, Jr.; Anti-Imperialism on the Right, Bobby Taylor; The Fires of Yellowstone, Jane Shaw; Ayn Rand: The Voice of Bitterness, Justin Raimondo; Existentialism and Liberty, David Gordon...
Defense, Controls, and Inflation

Aaron Director, ed. Updated 11/1/2010

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Capitalism, Socialism and Public Choice

Adrián Osvaldo Ravier Updated 10/31/2010

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Response to Jakobsson on Human Body Shields

Walter Block Updated 10/29/2010

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Hayek and Departure from Praxeology

Jakub Wozinski Updated 10/28/2010

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Instead of Dictatorship

Henry Hazlitt Updated 10/27/2010

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"New Light on the Prehistory of the Theory of Banking and the School of Salamanca"

Jesus Huerta de Soto Updated 10/26/2010

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Speaking of Liberty

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Updated 10/25/2010

Mises said that teaching the public was just as important as addressing scholars — maybe more so.That is what Lew Rockwell specializes in: history and theory and analysis in defense of the free society, written in clear prose to reach a broad audien...
History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/25/2010

Hardcover Edition The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose cre...
Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/25/2010

Strictly Confidential from Mises Media on Vimeo.The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard Mr. Libertarian, a great genius of twentieth century and one of the most innovative intellectuals in human history, still has more and more to say,...
A Challenge to Ludwig von Mises’s Theory of Probability

Mark R. Crovelli Updated 10/19/2010

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The Theory of Economic Development

Lionel Robbins Updated 10/7/2010

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The Legacy of Johnson’s War on Poverty

Samantha Mazzuca Updated 10/3/2010

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Robbers and Incendiaries: Protectionism Organizes at the Harrisburg Convention of 1827

W. Kesler Jackson Updated 10/2/2010

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Satan's Bushel

Garet Garrett Updated 9/25/2010

This dazzling work in economic fiction is the third of Garet Garrett's novel trilogy, written and first published in 1924. Like the others, Satan's Bushel is a splendid book, not just from the point of view of economics but also as a piece of...
The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the U.S. Constitution

Edwin Vieira, Jr Updated 9/17/2010

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A Regulated Gold Standard

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 9/14/2010

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The Political Thought of Étienne de la Boétie

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 9/13/2010

States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant—when consent is withdrawn. This is the thesis of this thrilling book. Murray Rothbard writes a classic introduction to one of the great political essays in the history...
"Intellectuals and Socialism"

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 9/8/2010

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Austrian Family Album

Mises Institute Updated 9/6/2010

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Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 9/6/2010

The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. They have been out of print for many years, and were previously only available at a price exceeding...
I, Pencil

Leonard Read Updated 9/1/2010

First published in the December 1958 issue of the Freeman, "I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read" is written in the first person from the point of view of an Eberhard Faber pencil. The pencil details the complexity of its...
Bourbon for Breakfast

Jeffrey A. Tucker Updated 8/30/2010

Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo The state makes a mess of everything it touches, argues Jeffrey Tucker in Bourbon for Breakfast. Perhaps the biggest mess it makes is in our minds. Its pervasive interventions in every sector...
The Human Body Sword

Kris Borer Updated 8/28/2010

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Review of Huebert’s Libertarianism Today

Walter Block Updated 8/28/2010

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Rand, Rothbard, and Rights Reconsidered

Kathleen Touchstone Updated 8/28/2010

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Money and War in Murray Rothbard’s A History of Money and Banking in the United States

Leonidas Zelmanovitz Updated 8/28/2010

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A Treatise on Political Economy

Jean-Baptiste Say Updated 8/12/2010

Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) has been described as a revolutionary, an author of scholarly books and popular tracts, a social philosopher, a successful entrepreneur and a remarkable Renaissance man. Above all, however, he was a great economist. H...
Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy, The

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 8/11/2010

"Do not steal" is an excellent principle of ethics; it is also the first principle of sound economic systems. In our time, no one has done more than Hans-Hermann Hoppe to elaborate on the sociological implications of this truth. And this is...
Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy

Percy L. Greaves, Jr. Updated 8/11/2010

A president faced an economic depression that wouldn't go away, and a deeply disgruntled electorate. Not for the first or last time, the option of entering a war seemed politically appealing. How badly did FDR want a war and to what lengths was h...
Towards a Theoretical Framework for British and International Economic History: Early Modern England

Sudha R. Shenoy Updated 8/10/2010

Sudha Shenoy (1943-2008) was a legendary figure in the history of the Austrian School. Her father, B.R. Shenoy, was practically the only libertarian in India in his day. His daughter, Sudha, was a student of Hayek and Rothbard and went on to teach...
The Economic Causes of War

Lionel Robbins Updated 8/9/2010

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The Theory of Economic Policy

Lionel Robbins Updated 8/9/2010

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The Meaning of Ludwig von Mises

Jeffrey M. Herbener Updated 8/9/2010

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Die Partei der Freiheit (The Party of Liberty)

Ralph Raico Updated 8/9/2010

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Hayek and His Lamentable Contemporaries

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

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Mises and Austrian Economics

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The fifth in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [56:38]...
Menger and Böhm-Bawerk

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The fourth in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:37]...
The Pre-Austrians

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The third in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:55]...