Books

Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

Tags: Introductory, Big Government

06/28/2010 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

The political agenda of the old liberals was not merely to limit the size of the government but also its scope. That means that lower orders of government have rights against higher ones. In the American context, that means that the state can...

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Tags: Big Government, World History

07/23/1944 • Ludwig von Mises

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent...

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On Doing the Right Thing

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1928 • Albert Jay Nock

This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his “Anarchist’s Progress,” “Thoughts on Revolution,” “The Decline of Conversation,” and other classics by this great American essayist and influential...

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On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises

Tags: Biographies

02/20/1957 • Mary Sennholz

This was the first Festschrift (1956) in Mises’s honor, and the essays it contains have proven fruitful sources for decades. This reprint features a new introduction. Preeminently, it contains Rothbard’s reconstruction of utility and welfare...

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On Liberty, Society, and Politics

Tags: Media and Culture

06/01/1992 • William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner is the “forgotten man” of American intellectual history and of the history of liberty. A thinker of extraordinary power, and a person who developed and integrated and thrilling view of the place of liberty in the...

On Money

08/27/2019 • Ferdinando Galiani

Translated from the Italian Della Moneta (1751) by Peter R. Toscano (1977). From Wikipedia: Summary Della Moneta is divided into five sections, covering what are still seen today as the standard aspects of monetary theory. These include the...

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On the Origins of Money

Tags: Money and Banks

11/17/2009 • Carl Menger

Written in the same year that he testified before the Currency Commission in Austria-Hungary, and published in English in 1892, Carl Menger explains that it is not government edicts that create money but instead the marketplace. Individuals...

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One Is a Crowd

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1952 • Frank Chodorov

This is a treasure: One Is a Crowd. It collects Frank Chodorov’s most profound essays on the topic of individualism, many of which have otherwise been unjustly lost to history. The reader will be riveted by his biographical essay on the meaning...

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Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers

Tags: Money and Banks, U.S. History

06/15/1964 • Charles Holt Carroll

Charles Holt Carroll defended sound money in a blazing series of essays appearing in the latter decades of the 19th century. They are all collected here, in The Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers. Little is known of Charles Holt...

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Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government

Tags: Introductory, Featured, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

07/20/2012 • Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Politics and thieves, coercion and regulation, fascism and the Fed, centralization and liberty, workers and unions, trade and freedom, free-market achievements and government disasters in American history — this book covers it all! Organized...

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Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment

Tags: Introductory, The Entrepreneur, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Nicolai J. Foss • Peter G. Klein

Now entrepreneurship classes are all the rage. While in real life government strangles businesses large and small everyday, the academic community has finally woken up to what creates wealth—entrepreneurial activity. This is a positive sign. And...

Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment

Tags: Introductory, The Entrepreneur, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Nicolai J. Foss • Peter G. Klein

Now entrepreneurship classes are all the rage. While in real life government strangles businesses large and small everyday, the academic community has finally woken up to what creates wealth—entrepreneurial activity. This is a positive sign. And...

Our Enemy, the State

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate

07/22/2009 • Albert Jay Nock

What does one need to know about politics? In some ways, Nock has summed it all up in this astonishing book, the influence of which has grown every year since its publication. This edition is supplemented by a sweeping introduction by Butler...

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Our Money and the State

Tags: Big Government, Money and Banks, Taxes and Spending

08/25/1917 • Hartley Withers

This book grew out of a course of lectures on Public Finance delivered at the London School of Economics in February and March. The subject had already been dealt with ably and fully by writers who had made a special study of it; but the present...

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Ouroboros or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind

05/31/1926 • Garet Garrett

“One story of us is continuous. It is the story of our struggle to recapture the Garden of Eden, meaning by that a state of existence free from the doom of toil.” Garrett explores the consequences of advancing technology and industrial capacity...

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Out of Step

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1962 • Frank Chodorov

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:...

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Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

Tags: Introductory, U.S. Economy

07/01/1997 • Lowell E. Gallaway • Richard Vedder

Professors Vedder and Gallaway provide a comprehensive examination of unemployment in the last century of American economic history, using a persuasive mix of Austrian theory (on money and business cycle), empirical methods, and narrative...

Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

Tags: Introductory, U.S. Economy

07/01/1997 • Lowell E. Gallaway • Richard Vedder

Professors Vedder and Gallaway provide a comprehensive examination of unemployment in the last century of American economic history, using a persuasive mix of Austrian theory (on money and business cycle), empirical methods, and narrative...

Outlook for Freedom

06/21/1951 • Leonard E. Read

Written in 1951, this is one of Leonard Read’s earliest pamphlets on what he called “the philosophy of freedom.” As was often the case in Read’s essays on spreading the message of liberty, Read notes that the first step is evaluating one’s own...

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Panderer to Power

Tags: Introductory, Biographies, The Fed

03/08/2009 • Frederick J. Sheehan

Alan Greenspan, the man who as Fed chairman gave the U.S. its largest bubble ever, along with the most serious financial calamity in recent memory, is an enigma. Greenspan’s career is summed up in the title, Panderer to Power. This has been his...