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Liberty Magazine 14.1

Liberty Publishing Updated 11/25/2011

Libertarian of the Century; The Jihad Against Microsoft, R.W. Bradford; When the NAACP Went Armed, David Kopel; Sex Behind Bars, Dyanne Peterson; A Women's Right, a Man's Duty, David Roberts; Reaching for the Stars, Eric Miller; The Strangula...
The American Story

Garet Garrett Updated 11/23/2011

He was a defender of free enterprise who adored the magnificence of the American genius for progress. He was a champion of business who believed in profiting the old fashioned way. He was a libertarian who deplored the rise of big government....
A Treatise on Political Economy

Destutt Tracy Updated 11/22/2011

The neglect of Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836) in the history of political economy is both strange and tragic. He was, after all, Thomas Jefferson's number one favorite economist, the thinker who influenced him and, ar...
Stock Market, Credit, and Capital Formation, The

Fritz Machlup Updated 11/21/2011

Economist Fritz Machlup was an early Misesian who wrote this book as an early study in the workings of the business cycle. In particular, he investigates and explains the relationship between expanding credit, monetary policy, and rising stock prices...
The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories

John V. Denson Updated 11/21/2011

This book is one of the most significant ever written by Denson. It contains essays that have been turned into major movies and documentaries, and influenced politics in ways no one could have expected. The thesis in brief: the warfare state is as gr...
Away From Freedom

Vernon Orval Watts Updated 11/18/2011

Murray Rothbard writes the introduction to the reprint of this 1952 gem. It is by V. Orval Watts, one of the leading anti-Keynesians of his time. He is writing during the great entrenchment of the Keynesian perspective within the economics profession...
The Great Austrian Economists

Randall G. Holcombe (ed.) Updated 11/17/2011

The Austrian tradition began formally with Carl Menger's 1871 work, Principles of Economics. But its roots stretch back to the late-Scholastic period, when philosophers first began to think systematically about the relationship between human choi...
The Underground Economy

Hans F. Sennholz Updated 11/10/2011

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The Value of Money

Tjardus Greidanus Updated 11/4/2011

Tjardus Greidanus The Value of Money...
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 11/3/2011

This fiery monograph shows a side of Murray Rothbard not seen in his theoretical treatise: his ability to employ "power elite" analysis to understand the relationship between money, power, and war. Rather than allow the left to dominate...
A Foreign Policy of Freedom

Ron Paul Updated 11/3/2011

There is one and only one voice in Congress for a foreign policy of freedom, and it belongs to Ron Paul, who has stood alone for freedom for many years. Ron is the seemingly impossible: a voice for reason and truth in a den of thieves. A Foreign Pol...
Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth

Doug French Updated 11/3/2011

Housing, a central priority for government policy for many decades, collapsed in 2008; even in 2011, millions of homes are under water. This poses many economic and ethical issues. This elegant and fact-filled book by Mises Institute president Do...
We

Eugene Zamiatin Updated 11/3/2011

“[Zamyatin’s] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism– human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself–makes [We] superior to Huxley’s [Brave New World].” –George Orwell An inspiration for George Orwell’s 1984 and a precursor to th...
The Case for Legalizing Capitalism

Kel Kelly Updated 10/26/2011

What's the "American system" of economics? Most people would say it is capitalism, which thereby deserves all fault when anything goes wrong. Well, Kel Kelly responds to this myth in this fast-paced and darn-near comprehensive treatment...
Liberty Magazine 23.9

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/18/2011

Starving the States, Bruce Ramsey; The System Is Broken, Jon Harrison; Much Ruin in a Nation, Lanny Ebenstein; Ayn's World, Stephen Cox; The Other Side of Thailand, Paul Karl Lukacs; Through Other Eyes, Gary Jason; How Much Do You Really Need?, J...
Liberty Magazine 23.6

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/18/2011

The Start of Something Big?, Bruce Ramsey; Street Fighting Man, Doug Casey; Tombstones and International Trade, Jacques Delacroix; The Books of Summer, Liberty's Editors and Contributors; Slapping the Driveway; Chords and Discords; December Song,...
Liberty Magazine 23.5

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/18/2011

The Real Threat to America's Infrastructure, Randal O'Toole; Beheading on a Bus, Thomas Szasz; At the Death of a Newspaper, Bruce Ramsey; Bringing Sunshine to the Nanny State, Vince Vasquez; Anarchy Again, William D. Curl; Government as God,...
Liberty Magazine 23.4

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/18/2011

Obama: The Hollow Man, Jim Walsh; Iraq: Now and In the Future, Jon Harrison; What Your Doctor's Not Telling You, Bill Merritt; The Day They Closed Outside, Robert A. Kelly; Brother, Can You Spare a Decade?, Mark Skousen; Not So Eminent Domain, Br...
Liberty Magazine 18.8

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Dark Horse on the Third Ballot, R.W. Bradford; Courtiers in the House of Bush, Alan W. Bock; America the Exception, Bruce Ramsey; Ronald Reagan: A Political Obituary, Murray Rothbard; Credit Where Credit Is Due, Lance Lamberton; Ronald Reagan, R.I.H....
Liberty Magazine 22.10

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

The Intelligent Person's Guide to Presidential Politics: Not Just for Libertarians, J. Bradley Jansen; The Case for Obama, Bruce Ramsey; The Case for McCain, Stephen Cox; None of the Above, Doug Casey; Warfare, Workfare, and Nation Building, Pete...
Liberty Magazine 22.9

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

The Next President, The Next War, Jon Harrison; Bob Barr: Enter the Pol, Bruce Ramsey; The Calvinist Connection, David Kopel; Supreme Injustice, J.H. Huebert; Darwinian Capitalism, Martin Morse Wooster; Capitalist Fiction, Bruce Ramsey; Invasion of t...
Liberty Magazine 22.7

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

The Battle for the Libertarian Party, Andrew Ferguson; Ron Paul and the Republicans, Bruce Ramsey; Privatize the Profit, Socialize the Loss, Jim Walsh; The Soft Touch, Bill Merritt...
Liberty Magazine 22.6

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Salesman, Stalwarts and Old Pols, Bruce Ramsey; Libertarian Like Me, Sandy Shaw; The Housing Bubble and Bust, Edmund Contoski; How to Think About Pollution, David Friedman; The American Revolution: Right or Wrong?, Ronald Hamowy; Summer Books, Libert...
Liberty Magazine 22.5

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

A Real Party?, Bruce Ramsey; The Ethics of Tort Reform, Gary Jason; Twenty Years of Liberty; The Liberty Poll; Moral Absolutes, Truth, and Liberty; Prince of Darkness or Angel of Light?, Stephen Cox; Leave Us Alone!, Bruce Ramsey; Economics for Fun &...
Liberty Magazine 22.4

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

The Paul Vote, Bruce Ramsey; Sun, Seegars, and Socialism, Doug Casey and Robert H. Miller; Thinking About War, George H. Smith; No More Sofia!, Jacques Delacroix; Expanding on Rand, Warren Gibson; Long Journey, Hard Road, J.H. Huebert; Double Infidel...
Liberty Magazine 22.2

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

The Surge, Revisited, Jon Harrison; The Right to Make a Buck, Bruce Ramsey; College and the State, Jane Shaw; When the Lights Stayed Out, Jim Walsh; The Two Libertarianisms, R.W. Bradford; Mises: The Three Strands, Warren Gibson; A Curious Conversion...
Liberty Magazine 21.11

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Nine Days in July, Jon Harrison; Is There a God? And Does It Matter?; Reverence for Skeptics, Leland Yeager; Skepticism, and Beyond, Stephen Cox; The Market for Body Parts, Gary Jason; Fifty Really Stupid Ways to Save the Earth, Karl Hess; Why I Don&...
Liberty Magazine 21.10

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Nine Days in July, Jon Harrison; Is There a God? And Does It Matter?; Reverence for Skeptics, Leland Yeager; Skepticism, and Beyond, Stephen Cox; The Market for Body Parts, Gary Jason; Fifty Really Stupid Ways to Save the Earth, Karl Hess; Why I Don&...
Liberty Magazine 21.7

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Virginia Tech's Failed Playwright, Scott Stein; The YouTube Wars, James Walsh; The Books of Summer; Diamonds, in the Rough, Nelson Hultberg; Liberté and Egalité Against Fraternité, Alex Binz; Beside the Boardwalk, Bruce Ramsey; Dar...
Liberty Magazine 21.6

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

A Freewheeling Debate, Bruce Ramsey, Lanny Ebenstein, and Brian Doherty; Borking Up the Wrong Tree, Timothy Sandefur; The Founding of the Party, John Hospers; A Generation of Slackers, Michael Christian; Lies Your Teachers Are Telling You, Gary Jason...
Liberty Magazine 21.5

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Our Next President, Bruce Ramsey; Global Warming, Global Stifling, Gary Jason; Smokey and His Bandits, Randal O'Toole; An Open Letter to My Fellow Christians, Laurence M. Vance; Sundown, Garin Hovannisian; The Vision of the Anointed, James Walsh;...
Liberty Magazine 21.3

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

A Way Out of Iraq, Jon Harrison; The French Occupation of America, David G. Danielson; The Empty Breadbasket, Doug Casey; Twenty Observations on Liberty and Society, Jayant Bhandari; The Art of Letting Go, Mark Skousen; What Causes Terrorism?, Robert...
Liberty Magazine 21.1

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Liberty at the Polls, Bruce Ramsey and the Editors and Contributors of Liberty; Borat Hits America, Andrew Ferguson; Fight Terrorism: Legalize Heroin, Scott McPherson; The Feds and the Phones, Vince Vasquez; David Friedman on Dragons. Jo Ann Skousen...
Liberty Magazine 24.5

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

The Move Toward National Land-Use Planning, Randal O'Toole; Empowering the Libertarian Minority, Charles Barr; You Say You Want a Revolutin, Jay Fisher; Watershed, Jacques Delacroix; Dead or Alive?, Robert Watts Lamon; Bank Shot, Robert Chatfield...
Liberty Magazine 24.6

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Naming Names, Bruce Ramsey; Presumption of Competence, Wendy McElroy; The Farthest Shores of Propaganda, Stephen Cox; Zoophobia, Jerry E. Ellison Jr., The Books of Summer, Liberty's Editors and Contributors; Psychology Grows Up, Jamie McEwan; Pla...
Liberty Magazine 24.7

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

The Crisis in Higher Education, Wayland Hunter; Broadening the Appeal of Liberty, Russell Hasan; Patchwork Planet, Jacques Delacroix; Judgment Call, Bruce Ramsey; Robin Hood, Revised, Jo Ann Skousen; Art for the Sake of Art, Gary Jason; Get Over It,...
Liberty Magazine 24.8

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Off the Rails, Randal O'Toole; Health, or Share the Wealth?, Steve Murphy; Complexity and Liberty, Charles Barr; Stray Facts, Stephen Cox; In Vino Libertas, Michael Christian; Radio Free Santa Cruz, Jacques Delacroix; A Continent Adrift, Robert C...
Liberty Magazine 24.9

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Don't Default on Me, Bruce Ramsey; Seeds of Liberty, Wayne Thorburn; Ends and Means, Stephen Cox; Pearl Harbor, Jane S. Shaw; The Beck Files, Robert Chatfield; Away From It All, Bruce Ramsey; Galt's Glitch; Saline Dissolution; Thriller for th...
Liberty Magazine 24.10

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Obama the Ordinary, Wayland Hunter; Drill Deep, Drill Smart, Gary Jason; Slippery Slope, Jacques Delacroix; Working for Liberty, Tom Palmer; The Importance of Being Ignorant, Aaron Ross Powell; I Was a Teenage Liberal, Robert P. Marcus; Starting a Mo...
Liberty Magazine 1.1

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

The Films of Ayn Rand, Stephen Cox; The Mystery Man of the Libertarian Movement, R.W. Bradford, Benjamin Best, and Tom Marshall; Witch-Bashing, Book-Burning, and Professor Harold Hill's Lessons in Practical Politics, Butler D. Shaffer; Options, J...
Liberty Magazine 24.4

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Obamalaise, Gary Jason; Creating Paradise, Jeff Wrobel; Marketing Morality, Brian J. Gladish; The View from Lulu's, Jacques Delacroix; Alverna's World: A Small Town in 1920, Bruce Ramsey; Chavez Says, Michael Owen; Preaching to the Unconverte...
Liberty Magazine 24.1

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Skirting the Surveillance State, Andrew Ferguson; How the Greens Went Red, Randal O'Toole; Mr. President, Lay Down That Bible!, David Puller; A Libertarian and a Comedian Walk into a Bar, Tim Slagle; Crash and Burn, Edmund Contoski; Man and Groom...
Liberty Magazine 21.2

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

The Rational, The Relentless, Bruce Ramsey; A Most Civil adversary, Tibor Machan; Friendly Fights With Dr. Friedman, Mark Skousen; A Libertarian Heaven on Earth, Richard Kostelanetz...
Liberty Magazine 20.7

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

The Books of Summer; My Life as a Legislator, Kenneth Lindell; The TIF That Is Eating Portland, Randal O'Toole; Down in Egypt Land, Doug Casey; Freedom to Speak, Jane S. Shaw; Bound but Determined, Jo Ann Skousen; Of Mars and Mammoths, Timothy Sa...
Liberty Magazine 20.6

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Winning the Battle for Freedom and Prosperity, John Mackey; They're Still Coming for Your Land, Timothy Sandefur; Centennial of an Unnatural Disaster, Dale Gieringer; The Notion that Caused the Great Depression, Richard Timberlake; X as in MCMLXX...
Liberty Magazine 20.5

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Liberty Around the World; The Real India, Behind the Fog, Jayant Bhandari; The End of Soviet Poland, Michael Christian; A Bet on China, Bruce Ramsey; The Danger in Spain, Luis A. Balcarce; Rethinking Vouchers, Alan Ebenstein; Shadyside Fugue, Ralph R...
Liberty Magazine 20.3

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

A Life in Liberty: Bill Bradford Remembered, Liberty's Editors and Contributors; The Conscience of a Libertarian, Ross Overbeek; Ayn Rand and Coney Island, Chris Matthew Sciabarra; Adios, Spike, Paul Rako; It Couldn't Have Been Anyone Else, S...
Liberty Magazine 20.10

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Immigration: Yes, No, and Maybe; The Land of Opportunity, Richard Fields; The Fallacy of Open Immigration, Stephen Cox; To Filter the People, Bruce Ramsey; Roman Virtues, Michael Christian; Paving the 50 States, Randal O'Toole; Objectivism, Alive...
Liberty Magazine 20.11

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

Health Care: Three Fantasies, Ross Overbeek; Charity? Humbug!, Doug Casey; Why Libertarians Should Call Themselves Socialists, David G. Danielson; The Crimes of War, Jon Harrison; The Catechism of the Revolution, David Kopel; The Rise of the Compassi...
Liberty Magazine 20.1

Liberty Publishing Updated 10/17/2011

I Vote Against Liberty, Jane S. Shaw; The Roots of Liberty, Dave Kopel; Pearl Harbor: Japan's Gift to FDR, Bettina Bien Greaves; The Anti-Semitism of My Youth; Richard Kostelanetz; The Craft of Ayn Rand, Stephen Cox; The Mighty Flynn, Jeff Riggen...