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Literature Library: free books from the Ludwig von Mises Institute: 2047 records

"From the Bosom of Communism to the Central Control of EU Planners"

Josef Sima Updated 1/15/2007

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"Natural Order, the State, and the Immigration Problem"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review: Hernando de Soto, <em>The Mystery of Capital</em>"

Gabriel Calzada Alvarez Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review: Leland B. Yeager, <em>Ethics as Social Science</em>"

Robert P. Murphy Updated 1/15/2007

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"Symposium on Federalism, War, and Reconstruction: Introduction"

Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Updated 1/15/2007

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"Paul to Jeremiah: Calhoun's Abandonment of Nationalism"

K.R. Constantine Gutzman Updated 1/15/2007

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"Calhoun, Sectional Conflict, and Modern America"

H. Lee Cheek, Jr. Updated 1/15/2007

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"A Moral Accounting of the Union and the Confederacy"

Donald W. Livingston Updated 1/15/2007

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"A Plain Folk Perspective on Reconstruction, State-Building, Ideology, and Economic Spoils"

Joseph R. Stromberg Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Consolidation of State Power via Reconstruction: 1865-1890"

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Firm in a Free Society: Following Bastiat's Insights"

Pascal Salin Updated 1/15/2007

SALIN IN DEFENCE OF FRACTIONAL MONETARY RESERVES...
"The Impossibility of the State"

Leonard Brewster Updated 1/15/2007

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"All Goverment is Excessive: A Rejoinder to Dwight Lee's "In Defense of Excessive Government""

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Locke, Hobbes, and the UD: Comment on Van Dun"

Paul Gottfried Updated 1/15/2007

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"Reply to Gottfried"

Frank van Dun Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review: Chris Sciabarra, <em>Total Freedom Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism</em>"

Joseph R. Stromberg Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review: A. James Gregor, <em>The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the 20th Century</em>"

T. Hunt Tooley Updated 1/15/2007

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"Symposium: Chicago versus the Free Market, Introduction"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Henry Simons is Not a Supporter of Free Enterprise"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Milton Friedman Unraveled"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"George Stigler and the Myth of Efficient Government"

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Updated 1/15/2007

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"Undermining Property Rights: Coase and Becker"

Gary North Updated 1/15/2007

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"Douglass C. North and Non-Marxist Institutional Determinism"

Joseph R. Stromberg Updated 1/15/2007

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"Economics, Politics, and the Coming Collapse of the Elderly Welfare State"

James Rolph Edwards Updated 1/15/2007

James Rolph Edwards Economics, Politics, and the Coming Collapse of the Elderly Welfare State...
"Hayek on Tradition"

Edward Feser Updated 1/15/2007

Edward Feser Hayek on Tradition...
"Facts and Counterfactuals in Economic Law"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

Joerg Guido Hulsmann Facts and Counterfactuals in Economic Law...
"Book Review: James L. Nolan, <em>Reinventing Justice: the American Drug Court Movement</em>"

Bruce L. Benson Updated 1/15/2007

Bruce Benson Review of Nolan...
"Free Exchange and Ethical Decisions"

Sorin Cucerai Updated 1/15/2007

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"A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, Inalienability"

Stephan Kinsella Updated 1/15/2007

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"Toward a Libertarian Theory of Inalienability: A Critique of Rothbard, Barnett, Smith, Kinsella, Gordon, and Epstein"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review: John Merrifield, <em>School Choices: True and False</em>"

Laurence M. Vance Updated 1/15/2007

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"Consent, Sex, and the Prenatal Rapist: A Brief Reply to McDonaghs's Suggested Revision of Roe v. Wade"

Francis J. Beckwith Updated 1/15/2007

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"Modeling Hypothetical Consent"

Mikko Wennberg Updated 1/15/2007

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"Austro-Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism"

Roderick T. Long Updated 1/15/2007

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"Against Libertarian Legalism: A Comment on Kinsella and Block"

Frank van Dun Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Enterprise of Community: Market Competition, Land, and Environment"

Spencer Heath MacCallum Updated 1/15/2007

Spencer Heath MacCallum The Enterprise of Community: Market Competition, Land, and Environment Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh...
"Do Pessimistic Assumptions about Human Behavior Justify Government?"

Benjamin Powell Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Constitutional Right of Secession in Political Theory and History"

Andrei Kreptul Updated 1/15/2007

Andrei Kreptul The Constitutional Right of Secession in Political Theory and History Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh...
"Review of J.C. Lester's <em>Escape from Leviathan: Liberty, Welfare, and Anarchy Reconciled</em>"

David Gordon Updated 1/15/2007

David Gordon and Roberta A. Modungo Review of J.C. Lester, Escape from Leviathan: Liberty, Welfare, and Anarchy Reconciled Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh...
"Mises versus Weber on Bureaucracy and Sociological Method"

William P. Anderson Updated 1/15/2007

William P. Anderson Mises versus Weber on Bureaucracy and Sociological Method Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh...
"Life, Liberty, and . . . : Jefferson on Property Rights"

Luigi Marco Bassani Updated 1/15/2007

Luigi Marco Bassani Life, Liberty, and . . .: Jefferson on Property Rights Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh...
"Review of Joseph E. Stiglitz, <em>Globalization and Its Discontents</em>"

Enrico Colombatto Updated 1/15/2007

Enrico Colombatto Review of Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh...
"Reply to "Against Libertarian Legalism" by Frank van Dun"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

Frank van Dun Reply to "Against Libertarian Legalism" Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Libertarian Legalism...
"Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom"

Frank van Dun Updated 1/15/2007

Frank van Dun Natural Law and The Jurisprudence of Freedom Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Libertarian Legalism...
"Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer"

Stephan Kinsella Updated 1/15/2007

N. Stephan Kinsella Reply to Van Dun: Non-Agression and Title Transfer Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Libertarian Legalism...
"Reply to Frank van Dun's "Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom""

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

Walter Block Reply to Frank van Dun's "Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom" Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Libertarian Legalism...
"Praxeology as Law & Economics"

Josef Sima Updated 1/15/2007

Josef Sima Praxeology as Law & Economics Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Libertarian Legalism...
"Book Review: <em>The Passion of Liberty</em> and <em>Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature's Favorite</em> by Tibor Machan"

Steven Yates Updated 1/15/2007

Steven Yates The Passion for Liberty and Putting Humans First: Why We are Nature's Favorit, by Tibor Machan Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Libertarian Legalism...
"Book Review: <em>Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice</em> by Clint Bolick"

Laurence M. Vance Updated 1/15/2007

Laurence Vance Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice, by Clint Bolick Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Libertarian Legalism...
"Kant and Property Rights"

Marcus Verhaegh Updated 1/15/2007

Marcus Verhaegh Kant and Property Rights Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Libertarian Legalism...