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Source: Books: 306 records

Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 4/27/2012

Rare is the scholar to inspire a festschrift--a volume of papers written by top specialists in honor of a major thinker-but this one is very special. It is sure to grow in importance as the years move on, for it contains phenomenal contributions writ...
Free Market Economics: A Syllabus

Bettina Bien Greaves Updated 4/20/2012

This little gem is a complete economics education for high-school age students. It provides lessons, study questions, activities, and an excellent list of readings for each topic under consideration. Bettina chose well because the readings all hold u...
Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader

Bettina Bien Greaves Updated 4/20/2012

Bettina Bien Greaves put this volume together as a one-stop primer in economics that includes the best economic writing she had run across. In some ways, the choices are brilliant. They are arranged by topic to cover the division of labor, prices...
As We Go Marching

John T. Flynn Updated 4/16/2012

John T. Flynn's classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. In some ways, this is the finest and most mature of all his works. It was written in wartime and his points were profoundly cutting. After all, the U.S....
Men of Wealth: The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day

John T. Flynn Updated 4/16/2012

This book reminds us what a remarkable writer and journalist John T. Flynn truly was. It is a first-class business history, by any standard. It is the story of great fortunes made by the most notable men of wealth in history: Jacob Fugger, John Law,...
Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles

Jesus Huerta de Soto Updated 4/4/2012

3rd Edition - Updated and revised. The three years since the publication of the previous English edition of Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles have seen a continuation of the economic recession process set in motion after the 2007 financia...
Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School

Ralph Raico Updated 4/2/2012

Here is the book to learn classical liberalism from the ground up, written by the foremost historian in the Austrian tradition--Ralph Raico. Every student, scholar, and freedom fan must have a copy of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School at...
Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought (Complete, 1965-1968)

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 3/26/2012

The most influential and famous low-circulation, typewriter-typed scholarly journal of the 20th century....
Our Enemy, the State

Albert Jay Nock Updated 3/22/2012

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. The Mises Institute has long hoped for an opportunity to produce a...
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

Ludwig von Mises Updated 3/22/2012

In 1954, after a lifetime of serious theoretical work in economic science, Mises turned his attention to one of the great puzzles of all time: discovering why the intellectuals hate capitalism. The result is this socio-psycho-cultural analysis inform...
An Economic Review of the Patent System

Fritz Machlup Updated 3/16/2012

Fritz Machlup An Economic Review of the Patent System (1958) Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Booms from Colonial Days to the Present Times

A. M. Sakolski Updated 3/16/2012

Those who lived through the huge speculative real estate bubble of the 1990s through 2008 might have imagined that it was unprecedented. Not so. Far from it! This definitive history of land speculation provides a well-documented but hugely ente...
Lessons for the Young Economist

Robert P. Murphy Updated 3/15/2012

This is the textbook Lessons for the Young Economist. View the Teachers Manual to Lessons for the Young Economist here We are beyond mere excitement about Lessons for the Young Economist. It is easily the best introduction to economics for the you...
Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Updated 2/29/2012

This professionally prepared ebook is an electronic edition of the book that is designed for reading on digital readers like iPad, Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, and other products including iPhone and Android smart phones. The text reflows depending o...
The Tragedy of the Euro

Philipp Bagus Updated 2/29/2012

2nd Edition Philipp Bagus, professor of economics at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, is a young scholar with a large influence, having forecast all the problems with the Euro and having persuaded many economists on the Continent that this cur...
Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View

Ron Paul Updated 2/29/2012

Ron Paul deserves a high place in the history of liberty for being the only seriously principled statesman to serve in the US House of Representatives in the last quarter of the 20th century. It should not be a surprise to discover that Ludwig vo...
From Bretton Woods to World Inflation: A Study of Causes and Consequences

Henry Hazlitt Updated 2/24/2012

Henry Hazlitt was a leading editorialist for the New York Times from 1934 until 1946. His career at the paper, however, abruptly ended because of the articles collected in this book. He closely covered the Keynesian-inspired Bretton Woods Agreement o...
Lectures on Political Economy - Volume I: General Theory

Knut Wicksell Updated 2/24/2012

Knut Wicksell was a Swedish economist who had an enormous influence on Austrian economics and Ludwig von Mises. This might be his most compelling book: lectures delivered over the course of an entire career, covering both general and specific economi...
Foundations of the Market Price System

Milton M. Shapiro Updated 2/24/2012

Murray Rothbard just loved this Austrian text on microeconomic theory. In fact, he thought it was the best text available - except that it has only been sporadically available since it was first published in 1974. It is characterized by a strong peda...
Why Wages Rise

F.A. Harper Updated 2/24/2012

F.A. Harper Why Wages Rise...
Will Dollars Save the World?

Henry Hazlitt Updated 2/24/2012

Henry Hazlitt had left the New York Times in an ideological disagreement over post-war economic policy. Once he left, he was free to speak his mind on the important issues of the day, among which the Marshall Plan. This is his blockbuster argument...
Aspects of the Pathology of Money

Michael A. Heilperin Updated 2/20/2012

Professor Heilperin was the outstanding monetary theorist before and after the Second World War who explained the inflation dangers associated with monetary nationalism, and called for a new international monetary system based on gold: not a gold exc...
New Directions in Austrian Economics

Louis M. Spadaro, (ed.) Updated 2/6/2012

This collection first appeared in the midst of the American Austrian revival, and its insights are constantly culled by modern students. In it, Austrian economists examine technical aspects of money, interest, capital and business cycles, and propert...
Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/30/2012

"A true masterpiece!" Bettina Bien Greaves "This masterpiece on the life of Mises is a great achievement! Its contents and scope surpass all economic biographies." Jesus Huerta de Soto "The first 300 pages of this big boo...
The Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest

Jeffrey M. Herbener Updated 1/25/2012

It’s about time. Really! An entire book fleshing out the pure time-preference theory of interest has finally been assembled. The present crop of Keynesians play with interest rates believing they can create prosperity without a sound theoretical...
The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914

Robert Higgs Updated 1/25/2012

The Gilded Age, lasting from 1865 to World War I, was an era of economic growth never before seen in the history of the world. The standard of living of the modern age was born during this time of phenomenal transition. Lives lengthen. Wealth explode...
Frederic Bastiat: A Man Alone

George Charles Roche III Updated 1/24/2012

Bastiat struggled his entire life to teach economic truths to every living person. His legacy is monumental and speaks to us today as clearly as it did France in the 19th century. He would certainly be thrilled by this biography of his life...
The Free Market Reader

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (ed.) Updated 1/19/2012

Stephan Kinsella says that he has "highly recommended this book for years as one of the best introductions to libertarian/free market thought." Enrico Peppe says it is "straightforward, logical, and fun." Thank goodness it is...
The Freeman Book

Albert Jay Nock Updated 1/17/2012

Yes, that's right: The Freeman. This was the original, as edited by Albert Jay Nock in the early 1920s. It was radical, far-reaching, topical, and bracing in every way. Here we have a collection of what Nock himself considered to be the best of t...
Austrian Macroeconomics: A Diagrammatical Exposition

Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/17/2012

When Murray Rothbard laid eyes on this classic monograph, he cheered. Here we have a graphical presentation that explains the Austrian view of macroeconomics in contrast to the simple and even simple-minded approach of the Keynesian aggregates. The...
Bagels, Barry Bonds, and Rotten Politicians

Burton Blumert Updated 1/17/2012

Burton Blumert was an entrepreneur who knew not only all that there is to know about precious metals but also about politics and economics. He offers his wide-ranging insights in this funny, charming, and also learned collection of essays from many y...
The Wild Wheel

Garet Garrett Updated 1/17/2012

No one, but no one, tells the story of the Ford Motor Company like Garet Garrett. He loved machines and technology, and the markets that create and distribute them. He loved the car and its transforming effect on society. And he lived through it all...
The Philosophy of Ownership

Robert LeFevre Updated 1/13/2012

The significance of property ownership has rarely been fully appreciated, writes Robert LeFevre. He proceeds to present the entire libertarian case for private ownership, with his characteristic clarity of exposition. He makes what is a radically...
The Return to Protection

William Smart Updated 1/13/2012

William Smart was the outstanding Austrian in England during his generation, a leading advocate of the marginalist school. But he was more than that: he was a dedicated champion of laissez-faire trade policy in the tradition of Cobden and Bright. He...
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/12/2012

Ridiculously low price! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austria...
Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought

Israel M. Kirzner Updated 1/12/2012

Israel Kirzner is an outstanding student of Mises's, and here is his sweeping defense of the Misesian definition of the scope and meaning of economic science. He compares the Misesian view of human action with the neoclassical and classical schoo...
What You Should Know About Inflation

Henry Hazlitt Updated 1/11/2012

The book's title—What You Should Know About Inflation—only hints at the extent of the issues that Hazlitt addresses. He presents the Austrian theory of money in the clearest possible terms, and contrasts it with the fallacies of government manage...
Education: Free and Compulsory

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/10/2012

What is it about today's school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have so many generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level...
Crises and Cycles

Wilhelm Röpke Updated 1/10/2012

It's hard to say what is the most rare, most hard to find, most buried important book, in the history of the Austrian School. But this splendid and critically important treatise would certainly be among the nominees. Until this edition, this...
International Economic Disintegration

Wilhelm Röpke Updated 1/9/2012

Röpke wrote this book in the late 30s, and it was published in 1942. He explains how the world unraveled the 1930s from a combination of protectionism and monetary destruction. And while his analysis is robust, he also relays what seems to be an...
The Value of Money

Benjamin Anderson Updated 1/6/2012

Benjamin Anderson, American Austrian, was among a handful of economists, led by Ludwig von Mises in his pioneering work The Theory of Money and Credit in 1912, who set out to integrate monetary theory into a general theory of value. Anderson devot...
International Order and Economic Integration

Wilhelm Röpke Updated 1/3/2012

Some of Röpke's best work has remained long out of print, this book among them. With great sincerity and passion he explains how the old liberals of his generation came to reject war came to reject war as a first principle and then reject so...
Labor Policy of the Free Society, The

Sylvester Petro Updated 1/2/2012

Professor Petro is one of the giants of the Austrian tradition, and he applied his talents to a particular area of specialization: labor policy. This 1957 book covers three main areas: US labor law and experience, the Austrian theory of labor/capital...
Critique of Interventionism, A

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/30/2011

In the sequence of Mises's books concerning policy, this book followed Socialism, and was the first to present a new theory of interventionism. In Mises's view, interventionism is an inherently unstable policy because it creates new disloc...
An Introduction to the Theory of Value

William Smart Updated 12/30/2011

It is astonishing that a book of this quality would have been completely lost to history. It was the first to introduce the core ideas of the Menger branch of Marginalist thought to English readers. The first edition appeared in 1891. It appeared in...
How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men and Women Told by Themselves

Orison Swett Marden Updated 12/29/2011

There is a beautiful romance in this book, a romance with achievement in an age when achievement was valued. It can happen again, and a good first step is to study the lives and values of the greats of the last century to learn how and why. The Gi...
Planned Chaos

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/27/2011

This new edition (completely reset) of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date - not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will. The title c...
The Theory of Collective Bargaining

William H. Hutt Updated 12/26/2011

In 1930, W.H. Hutt demonstrated several spectacular points: labor unions cannot lift wages overall; their earnings come at the expense of the consumer; their effect is to cartelize business and reduce free competition to the detriment of everyone. He...
The Economics of the Colour Bar

William H. Hutt Updated 12/23/2011

Who were the original and most passionate opponents of apartheid in South Africa? The classical liberals, and this book was their most important weapon against the problem of racial injustice. William H. Hutt, an Austro-classical economist in Sou...
My Years with Ludwig von Mises

Margit von Mises Updated 12/22/2011

A moving account of her life with "Lu," from their first days in Vienna to his death in New York in 1973. The reader learns that Mises was a warm and gentle husband, in addition to being a great mind. The author reports interesting anecdote...