Literature Library
The most complete online offering of the literature of the Austrian School and libertarian ideas, including books, journal articles, and other writings, sorted by author or any method you choose.
We recommend Adobe Reader for PDF files and Adobe Digital Editions for desktop reading of ePub (ebook) files.
For an ePub reader, we recommend the iBook app, O'Reilly's Bookworm, or the Stanza Catalog.
Has the Mises.org Literature section changed your life? We want to hear from you!
Source: Online Books: 510 records
<1234567891011>
-
Central Planning and Neomercantilism
Helmut Schoeck Updated 6/15/2009
Helmut Shoeck Central Planning and Neomericantilism... -
Freedom and the Law
Bruno Leoni Updated 6/15/2009
Bruno Leoni was surely the most important Italian free market thinker of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Here we have an outstanding analysis of the relationship between law and freedom, one that follows up on Bastiat and, many argue, exceeds Hayek... -
Introduction to Economics
John Sickle Updated 6/15/2009
John V. Van Sickle Introduction to Economics... -
Labor Monopolies or Freedom
John Scoville Updated 6/15/2009
John Scoville Labor Monopolies or Freedom... -
Studies in the Theory of International Trade
Jacob Viner Updated 6/15/2009
Jacob Viner Studies in the Theory of International Trade... -
The Theory of International Trade
Gottfried Haberler Updated 6/15/2009
Gottfried Haberler Theory of International Trade... -
The Return to Laisser Faire
Sir Ernest Benn Updated 6/5/2009
Ernest J. P. Benn The Return To Laisser Faire... -
Confessions of a Capitalist
Sir Ernest Benn Updated 6/5/2009
Ernest Benn Confessions of a Capitalist... -
Theorie des geldes und der Umlaufsmittel
Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/28/2009
Here is the first edition, 1912, of Mises's great book translated as Theory of Money and Credit. This is the German original in a gorgeous cover. This book changed monetary economics for ever. Now you can own a perfect reprint of the original... -
Our Enemy, The State
Albert Jay Nock Updated 5/27/2009
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... -
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of Total State and Total War
Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/27/2009
At the close of the Second World War, Mises saw the destruction of the old world and the beginnings of a new one that did not look promising, especially for European politics. Socialism appeared to sweep all before it, and the social democratic varie... -
Mises in America
William H. Peterson Updated 5/27/2009
The great essayist and economist pens a tribute to his colleague and teacher. Dr. Peterson knew Dr. Mises well. Both were professors at New York University. In this monograph, he describes his temperament and personality as well as his scholarly cont... -
Market Theory and the Price System
Israel M. Kirzner Updated 5/27/2009
Israel Kirzner's outstanding book on price theory is back in print. It is been very difficult to obtain it for decades, even though it is surely the best textbook on Austrian price theory ever written. The prose is crystal clear and the organizat... -
Liberty and the Great Libertarians
Charles T. Sprading Updated 5/27/2009
In 1913, Charles T. Sprading (1871-1959) wrote a book of remarkable prescience that anticipated the systematic development of an American libertarian tradition. He called it Liberty and the Great Libertarians. What he provided was a biography and int... -
Letters to Mr. Malthus
Jean-Baptiste Say Updated 5/27/2009
OUT OF STOCK! J.B. Say battled the prophet of doom in this rare series of letters that explain how economic growth occurs without destabilizing economic forces. He writes with passion and personality, anticipating so many Austrian insights. An extra... -
Let's Abolish Government
Lysander Spooner Updated 5/27/2009
Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) is the American individualist anarchist and legal theorist known mainly for setting up a commercial post office in competition with the government and thereby being shut down. But he was also the author of some of the mos... -
International Monetary Economics
Michael A. Heilperin Updated 5/27/2009
Michael Heilperin was a friend and colleague of Ludwig von Mises's in Geneva, and his specialization was the international monetary system. He applied the Austrian theory of the business cycle along with his knowledge of the balance of payments t... -
Revisionist Viewpoints: Essays in a Dissident Historical Tradition
James J. Martin Updated 5/26/2009
James J. Martin Revisionist Viewpoints... -
Essentials of Economic Theory
John Bates Clark Updated 5/26/2009
John Bates Clark was an American adherent of the marginalist school who engaged the Austrians and learned from them. He delivered many blows against the historical school in favor of the idea of pure theory. He was also a prominent advocate of free m... -
Cogitations from Albert Jay Nock
Albert Jay Nock Updated 5/26/2009
Robert M. Thornton Cogications from Albert J. Nock... -
Duncombe's Free Banking
Charles Duncombe Updated 5/26/2009
Charles Duncombe Duncombe's Free Banking... -
Economic Principles
Frank A. Fetter Updated 5/26/2009
Finding this gem took some doing, but the Mises Institute is pleased to bring Frank Fetter's fabulous Economic Principles back in print. At a time when many economists were warming to the notion of central planning, Fetter worked to present g... -
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
Max Eastman Updated 5/26/2009
Max Eastman Reflections on the Failure of Socialism... -
Economics Depressions: Their Cause and Cure
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/18/2009
Ludwig von Mises Omnipotent Government... -
Freedom, Society, and the State
David Osterfeld Updated 5/6/2009
David Osterfeld Freedom, Society, and State... -
Ten Thousand Commandments: A Story of the Antitrust Laws
Harold Fleming Updated 5/1/2009
Harold Fleming Ten Thousand Commandments... -
The Limits of Economics
Oskar Morgenstern Updated 3/28/2009
Oskar Morgenstern The Limits of Economics... -
Liberty: Legacy of Truth
Leonard E. Read Updated 3/23/2009
Leonard E. Read Liberty: Legacy of Truth... -
Education in America
George Charles Roche III Updated 3/23/2009
George Charles Roche III Education in America...

Journal of Libertarian Studies
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
The Free Market
The Mises Review
Austrian Economics Newsletter
Review of Austrian Economics
Mises Institute Working Papers
Libertarian Papers




