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Source: Books: 306 records

Prices and Production

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 5/7/2013

Hayek was not only a leading champion of liberty in the 20th century. As this massive book reveals, he was also a great economist whose elaboration on monetary theory and the business cycle made him the leading foe of Keynesian theory and policy in t...
Complete Libertarian Forum (1969-1984)

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/7/2013

It's finally here, the bound edition (two massive volumes, hardcover) of the Libertarian Forum that serious collectors and readers only dreamed about a few years ago. Those who were lucky enough to have the complete set held onto them for dear li...
Individualism and Economic Order

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 5/6/2013

If you are looking to acquaint yourself with F.A. Hayek's perspective on economic theory--beyond his business cycle and monetary studies of the interwar years--this is the best source. The collection appeared in 1947, before he moved on toward br...
Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Ludwig von Mises Updated 4/26/2013

This might be Mises's best-selling book. This new release is certainly the most beautiful edition to appear yet. It is a very clear explanation of the basics of economic policy: private property, free trade, exchange, prices, interest, money and...
The Economics of Liberty

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (ed.) Updated 4/25/2013

This collection of short, entertaining, and educational articles exposes how government interference with the economy violates individual liberty, leads to inefficiencies, and rewards special interests. This collection appeared in 1991 and it holds u...
What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 4/16/2013

When this gem first appeared in 1963, it took the form of a small paperback designed for mass distribution. We've conjured up that spirit again with this special edition of Rothbard's primer on money and government. Innumerable economists,...
Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A. -Digital Book

Rose Martin Updated 3/13/2013

Digital Book Both prophetic and illuminating, Fabian Freeway documents the rise and progress of socialism in Britain and the United States and tells the story of the many early triumphs of the philosophy of socialist incrementalism known as Fa...
Theory of Money and Fiduciary Media

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 3/13/2013

As the Federal Reserve and other central banks run wild, it’s time to reconsider a great work by Ludwig von Mises that is as fresh and relevant today as when it appeared a century ago. The first of Mises’s major works, Theory of M...
Pursue the Cause of Liberty: A Farewell to Congress

Ron Paul Updated 3/7/2013

This is Ron Paul's "Farewell to Congress" delivered on November 14th, 2012. Yet this is not reminiscence of good times spent in the halls of power. Rather, in this booklet, you will find a devastating denunciation of the evils perpetra...
Give Me Liberty

Rose Wilder Lane Updated 3/6/2013

Digital Book Rose Wilder Lane in her youth supported the Russian Revolution, but a trip to Russia quickly dispelled her illusions. She realized that the mass politics of socialism necessarily suppressed individual freedom. America was founded on...
Accent On The Right - Digital Book

Leonard E. Read Updated 1/29/2013

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Awake For Freedom's Sake - Digital Book

Leonard E. Read Updated 1/29/2013

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Comes The Dawn - Digital Book

Leonard E. Read Updated 1/29/2013

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Deeper Than You Think - Digital Book

Leonard E. Read Updated 1/29/2013

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Having My Way - Digital Book

Leonard E. Read Updated 1/29/2013

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Let Freedom Reign - Digital Book

Leonard E. Read Updated 1/29/2013

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How Do We Know - Digital Book

Leonard E. Read Updated 1/29/2013

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For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/4/2012

Latest edition includes an introduction by Lew Rockwell. In For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for us...
Review of Austrian Economics, Full Collection

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 11/29/2012

Save $20.00 when you buy the complete 10 volume printed set! All 10 KINDLE files are in the store as well for only $30.00! RARE KINDLE FULL COLLECTION. Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream...
Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941

Charles Callan Tansill Updated 11/6/2012

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Ouroboros or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind

Garet Garrett Updated 11/6/2012

"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." Garett explores the consequences of advancing technology and industrial...
Why American History Is Not What They Say

Jeff Riggenbach Updated 10/28/2012

Jeff Riggenbach's book is a godsend for anyone who needs a crash course in revisionist history of the United States. What is revisionism? It is the retelling of history from a point of view that differs from the mainstream, which always treats...
Triumph of Gold

Charles Rist Updated 10/22/2012

Charles Rist explores the history of gold as a monetary standard in the United States as well as conventional misconceptions during and after its implementation in US monetary policy. This book contains many of his speeches, articles, and some perso...
Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/5/2012

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...
Ideas on Liberty: Essays in Honor of Paul L. Poirot

Robert G. Anderson Updated 9/26/2012

Paul Poirot is remembered by most people as the thirty-year editor of The Freeman, the monthly journal published by the Foundation for Economic Education since 1956. But Paul Poirot was much more than just an editor. Dr. Poirot was an uncompromisi...
Principles of Ethics: Anthology

Herbert Spencer Updated 8/31/2012

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Credit Policies of the Federal Reserve System

Charles Hardy Updated 8/21/2012

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Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

Ludwig von Mises Updated 8/15/2012

This is the essay that overthrew the socialist paradigm in economics, and provided the foundation for modern Austrian price theory. When it first appeared in 1920, Mises was alone in challenging the socialists to explain how their pricing system woul...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 9

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/6/2012

RAE VOLUME 9 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Updated 8/3/2012

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!...
Boundaries of Order: Private Property as a Social System

Butler Shaffer Updated 8/1/2012

Private Property as a Social System Every once in a while, a treatise on libertarian philosophy appears that presages a new way of thinking about politics and economics. Mises's Liberalism, Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty, and Hoppe's Dem...
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Etienne de la Boetie Updated 7/19/2012

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...
The Wizards of Ozymandias

Butler Shaffer Updated 7/19/2012

Western Civilization--the American version in particular--is in a very turbulent and, perhaps terminal condition. The sense of civility that helps give meaning to a "civilization" is in full retreat. Butler Shaffer has, over the cour...
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Albert Jay Nock Updated 7/19/2012

Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of soci...
The Foundations of Morality

Henry Hazlitt Updated 6/28/2012

Here is Hazlitt's major philosophical work, in which he grounds a policy of private property and free markets in an ethic of classical utilitarianism, understood in the way Mises understood that term. In writing this book, Hazlitt is reviving an...
Mises on Money

Gary North Updated 6/25/2012

Before Austrian economics came on the scene, monetary theory was a hodge-podge of disjointed insights. Nobody knew how to integrate those insights into a system, much less how to integrate monetary theory with the rest of economics. Carl Menger...
The Turgot Collection: Writings, Speeches, and Letters of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

A.R.J. Turgot Updated 5/24/2012

This outstanding book was ten years in the making, but it is finally here and the result is startling. It is a pocket edition, super economical, 525 pages of Turgot – the bulk of his life’s work, all beautifully organized. He mig...
War Collectivism

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/24/2012

War Collectivism: Power, Business, and the Intellectual Class in World War I More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a "war collectivism," a totally planned ec...
Conceived in Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/14/2012

The new single-volume edition of Conceived in Liberty is here! After so many years of having to juggle four volumes, the Mises Institute has finally put it altogether in a single, 1,616-page book. This makes it easier to read, and makes clearer just...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 10

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 10 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 8 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 7

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 7 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 6

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 6 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 5

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 5 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 4

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 4 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 3

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 3 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 2

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 2 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 1

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 1 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
America's Second Crusade

William Henry Chamberlin Updated 5/2/2012

Was World War II a failure? It is an unthinkable thought in the American political ethos. but noted American journalist and author William Henry Chamberlin dares think it, from the vantage point of the immediate postwar world of 1950. "Not on...
The Development of Economics

William A Scott Updated 5/2/2012

William A. Scott The Development of Economics...