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The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue

Henry Hazlitt Updated 5/15/2010

When Henry Hazlitt published this exceedingly rare book, he was finishing up a three-year position at The Nation as literary critic, and preparing to accept the position as H.L. Mencken's successor at American Mercury. He was struggling with...
The Rise and Fall of Society

Frank Chodorov Updated 5/15/2010

Frank Chodorov adored the work of Albert Jay Nock, particularly Nock's writings on the State. And so Chodorov set out to do something implausible: to rework the Nock book in his own style. Rothbard wrote of this book: "Frank's...
The Regulated Consumer

Mary Bennett Peterson Updated 5/15/2010

At the outset of the Naderite consumer movement, the Austrians had a vigorous response in this book by Mary Bennett Peterson. She discusses whether and to what extent product, safety, labor, communications, and other regulation helps or hinders the i...
The Economics of Inflation: A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany

Constantino Bresciani-Turroni Updated 5/15/2010

"This is the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the great German inflation from 1914 to 1923." - Henry Hazlitt As an Austrian study of hyperinflation, this study has never been surpassed. The same is true of the detailed ex...
Lectures on Political Economy - Volume II: Money

Knut Wicksell Updated 5/14/2010

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...
A History of American Currency

William Graham Sumner Updated 5/14/2010

The author, William Graham Sumner, was the great sociologist of late 19th century America, but also a wise observer of economic conditions. In 1874, in the midst of another debate about the future of the American monetary system, he offered this...
The Market for Liberty

Morris and Linda Tannehill Updated 5/14/2010

Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and labored discipline. But other classics are written in a white heat during the moment of discovery, with prose that shines forth like the sun pouring into the window of a time...
The Discovery of Freedom

Rose Wilder Lane Updated 5/14/2010

With new forewords by Roger Lea MacBride and Hans F. Sennholz What an American original was Rose Wilder Lane! What a treasure! She lived from 1886 until 1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent collaborator on t...
The Driver

Garet Garrett Updated 5/14/2010

Here is a treasure in the history of the pro-capitalist novel. Garet Garrett, author of The People's Pottage, tells the story of an upstart Wall Street speculator financier, Henry Galt, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as p...
The Bastiat Collection-Volume 1

Frederic Bastiat Updated 5/14/2010

In two volumes, here is The Bastiat Collection, the main corpus of his writings in English in a restored and elegant translation that includes some of the most powerful defenses of free markets ever written. This restoration project has yielded a...
The Bastiat Collection-Volume 2

Frederic Bastiat Updated 5/14/2010

In two volumes, here is The Bastiat Collection, the main corpus of his writings in English in a restored and elegant translation that includes some of the most powerful defenses of free markets ever written. This restoration project has yielded a...
Die Gemeinwirtschaft

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/14/2010

Mises's book Socialism might be the bravest and most revolutionary book of the 20th century. Here is the second edition of the German original, with a beautiful cover and handsomely bound for the serious reader and collection....
The Cinder Buggy

Garet Garrett Updated 5/14/2010

Garet Garrett's fiction deals with the social impact of economic transformations. In The Driver, he deals with railroads, while Satan's Bushel examines agricultural. The Cinder Buggy, his second in the trilogy, is the longest of the t...
Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom

John V. Denson Updated 5/14/2010

American Despots Amazing low sale price in defense of authentic freedom as versus the presidency that betrayed it! Everyone seems to agree that brutal dictators and despotic rulers deserve scorn and worse. But why have historians been so willi...
Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

Ron Paul Updated 5/14/2010

When the economic history of our times is written, one man will emerge as the prophet of both the financial collapse and the disasters associated with government management: Ron Paul. He alone among the political class sounded the warnings and sees t...
The Case Against the Fed

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/14/2010

The most powerful case against the American central bank ever written. This work begins with a mini-treatment of money and banking theory, and then plunges right in with the real history of the Federal Reserve System. Rothbard covers the struggle bet...
Not a Zero-Sum Game: The Paradox of Exchange

Manuel F. Ayau Updated 5/14/2010

The key to understanding how society comes to be, works without central direction, and develops into a thriving civilization can be understood through the least understood idea in economics: the division of labor through comparative advantage. It is...
The Political Economy of Juan De Mariana

John Laures, S.J. Updated 5/14/2010

Juan de Mariana (1536-1624), a major thinker of the Spanish renaissance, was a founder of economic science. This study of his writings and legacy appeared in 1928 and has not been reprinted until now. Prof. Fr. Laures explores his thinking on value,...
Mises: An Annotated Bibliography

Bettina Bien Greaves Updated 5/14/2010

An essential companion to all of Mises's works, this easy-to-use bibliography covers his life from Vienna to New York. It provides summaries of his works and detailed publication information--a real treasure trove. A special treat is the exten...
Mises: An Annotated Bibliography; 1982-1993 Update

Bettina Bien Greaves Updated 5/14/2010

The second volume of Mrs. Greaves's complete bibliography of Mises. It tells who has been writing about Mises, where, and what they had to say. Using this book is a useful way to track the progress of the Austrian School since the founding of the...
The Socialist Tradition: Moses to Lenin

Alexander Gray Updated 5/14/2010

Alexander Gray (1882–1968) was a British economist with a particularly keen appreciation of the Austrian contribution to the history of ideas. As with others of his generation, he was super well-educated and an outstanding stylist of the English lang...
Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture

Paul A. Cantor Updated 5/14/2010

The economic interpretation of literature is dominated by ideas derived from Marxism — ideas that demonize the market as the enemy of all that is good. This book, edited by well-known literary critics Paul Cantor (University of Virginia) and Stephe...
The Roots of Capitalism

John Chamberlain Updated 5/14/2010

Capitalism is a system that can stand on its own attainments, says John Chamberlain, and he offers here a fast-paced, provocative look at the intellectual forces and practical accomplishments that have created American capitalism. He begins at the...
Nationalökonomie: Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/14/2010

Here is the German original of what later became Human Action. It was published first in 1940 after years in exile in Geneva. At last this masterpiece is avaiable again, in a gorgeously bound hardback....
Essays on Freedom and Power

Lord Acton Updated 5/10/2010

Freedom and Power collects Lord Acton's most important writings on a theme that would define his reputation for more than a century: the corruptions of power. In addition, the reader learns from his love of liberty as the great creative force in...
Elementary Lessons in Logic

W. Stanley Jevons Updated 5/10/2010

Henry Hazlitt strongly recommended this book for all students of the social sciences. It had a formative influence on his life. In fact, it is the book that taught him how to think. And not only Hazlitt. William Stanley Jevons's book was the...
Economics and the Public Welfare

Benjamin Anderson Updated 5/9/2010

Here is a contemporaneous account of the economic history of the first half of the 20th century, by an American adherent of the Austrian School. Covered in these pages is the inflation of World War I and following, the 1920s boom, and the onset and c...
The Economics of Alfred Marshall

H. J. Davenport Updated 5/9/2010

Ludwig von Mises Omnipotent Government...
The TVA Idea

Dean Russell Updated 5/9/2010

Dean Russell The TVA Idea...
Can We Control the Boom?

Fritz Machlup Updated 5/5/2010

Leon Say Great French Writers Turgot Great French Writers Turgot...
Great French Writers: Turgot

Leon Say Updated 4/30/2010

Leon Say Great French Writers Turgot Great French Writers Turgot...
Time Will Run Back

Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/20/2010

Here is a splendid novel by Henry Hazlitt, first published in 1951 and revised in 1966. The plot line explores the economic theories of capitalism and socialism. It begins in a fully socialist society in which the new leader, who finds himself in...
Harangue (The Trees Said to the Bramble Come Reign Over Us)

Garet Garrett Updated 4/20/2010

Garet Garrett wrote one last, and truly spectacular, novel called Harangue (The Trees Said to the Bramble Come Reign Over Us). The words are from the Bible (Judges 9:15, and the metaphor here refers to the strange penchant of the rich to fund soc...
Epistemological Problems of Economics

Ludwig von Mises Updated 4/20/2010

"The characteristic feature of this age of destructive wars and social disintegration is the revolt against economics." So says Ludwig von Mises in his most thorough defense of the method and scope of economic science. In this treatise,...
Foreign Policy and the American Mind

Robert A. Nisbet Updated 3/15/2010

Robert A. Nisbet Foreign Policy and the American Mind...
The New Despotism

Robert A. Nisbet Updated 3/15/2010

Robert A. Nisbet The New Despotism...
Less than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy

George A. Selgin Updated 3/15/2010

George Selgin Less Than Zero...
The Viennese School of Economics: A History of its Ideas, Proponents, and Institutions

Eugen-Maria Schulak Updated 3/13/2010

Eugen-Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler The Viennese School of Economics...
Progress and Poverty

Henry George Updated 3/6/2010

Henry George Progress and Poverty...
An Inflation Primer

Melchior Palyi Updated 3/5/2010

Melchior Palyi An Inflation Primer...
Illusions of Point Four

Henry Hazlitt Updated 3/5/2010

Henry Hazlitt Illusions of Point Four...
Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn

John T. Flynn Updated 3/4/2010

J. T. Flynn Forgotten Lessons...
Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State

Melchior Palyi Updated 1/28/2010

Melchior Palyi Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State...
The Gold Standard and Its Future

T.E. Gregory Updated 1/26/2010

T. E. Gregory The Gold Standard and Its Future...
Money: Its Connexion with Rising and Falling Prices

Edwin Cannan Updated 1/26/2010

Cannan Money...
Property in a Humane Economy

Samuel L. Blumenfeld, ed. Updated 1/26/2010

Samuel Blumenfeld, ed. Property in a Human Economy...
Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit

Frank H. Knight Updated 1/26/2010

Frank H. Knight Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit...
Tariffs: A Study in Method

T.E.G. Gregory Updated 1/26/2010

T.E.G. Gregory Tariffs: A Study of Method...
Selected Writings on Economics

Nassau W. Senior Updated 1/12/2010

Nassau W. Senior Selected Writings on Economics...
Psychiatry and Responsibility

Helmut Schoeck Updated 1/8/2010

Helmut Schoek and James W. Wiggins Psychiatry and Responsibility...