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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...
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...
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...
Capital and Production

Richard von Strigl Updated 9/19/2011

Richard Ritter von Strigl (1891–1942) was one of the most brilliant Austrian economists of the interwar period. As a professor at the University of Vienna he had a decisive influence on Hayek, Machlup, Haberler, Morgenstern, and other fourt...
Economics for Real People

Gene Callahan Updated 9/16/2011

The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or sta...
Capital in Disequilibrium

Peter Lewin Updated 9/7/2011

A theoretical treatise is a rare event, a moment to celebrate. This is what Peter Lewin has provided in his Capital in Disequilibrium. Taking capital seriously is a distinguishing mark of the Austrian School. The Austrians see capital as decisive in...
Understanding the Dollar Crisis

Percy L. Greaves, Jr. Updated 8/31/2011

In the year that President Nixon closed the gold window forever and the US government removed the last vestiges of the gold standard, nonstop dollar turmoil was unleashed. In that same year, Percy L. Greaves, a student of Ludwig von Mises's, rele...
Capital, Interest, and Rent: Essays in the Theory of Distribution

Frank A. Fetter Updated 7/7/2011

Frank Fetter of Princeton University was one of the great American Austrians, and perhaps the most lucid defender of the "pure time preference" theory of interest in the history of economic ideas. Rothbard learned from him, and then col...
Value, Capital, and Rent

Knut Wicksell Updated 7/6/2011

Knut Wicksell was an important thinker of the second-generation marginalist school, and here is his detailed commentary on and elaboration of the capital theory of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. It was first published in 1893, but did not appear in Engl...
Interest and Prices

Knut Wicksell Updated 6/29/2011

It was this work by Swedish economist Wicksell that drew Mises's attention to the effects of interest rate manipulation on the capital structure. This was the first to present the idea of the natural rate of interest, which Wicksell argued can be...
Recent Literature on Interest

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 6/14/2011

This book by Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk is a supplement to his two great books, Capital and Interest and The Positive Theory of Capital. Here he takes on alternatives to the Austrian theory he had previously presented, and thereby clarifies the case. It...
Karl Marx and the Close of His System

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 6/10/2011

The great economist takes on Karl Marx, and his fundamental failure to understand the workings of the capital market and its relationship to value. The criticism was devastating, so much so that a leading Marxist responded, and thus herein is Rudolf...
The Positive Theory of Capital

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 6/9/2011

This is the second book in the series of Boehm-Bawerk translations by Scottish economist William Smart, originally published in 1891. It is, as the title suggests, the positive theory of capital. It begins with full front matter by Smart himself,...
Capital and Interest

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Updated 6/8/2011

The great economist and finance minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is a pillar of the Austrian School. As a champion of the new marginalist school, this great work brought him more fame than even Carl Menger had in his day. Here is the origi...
Capital and Its Structure

Ludwig M. Lachmann Updated 5/24/2011

Ludwig Lachmann in 1956 set out to correct the problem that the economics profession had no coherent and working understanding of capital, a concept so integral to economic science and yet not explored at length since the takeover of macroeconomics b...
Failure of the 'New Economics'

Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/15/2011

Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. T...
The Principles of Economics, With Applications to Practical Problems

Frank A. Fetter Updated 3/31/2011

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The Causes of the Economic Crisis, and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/9/2010

Stimulus or laissez-faire? That's the essential debate about what to about financial crisis in our time. It was the same in the 1930s. In this world before and after the Great Depression, there was a lone voice for sanity and freedom: Ludwig...
Pure Theory of Capital, The

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 5/15/2010

The greatest failing of non-Austrian theories of macroeconomics, it's been said, is that they lack a robust theory of capital. F.A. Hayek sought to fill out the theory of the business cycle with an impenetrable one, and the result was this remark...
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...
"End of the Era of Keynes?"

L. Albert Hahn Updated 5/8/2009

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"ASAD: A Sad Development in Macroeconomic Pedagogy"

Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/29/2008

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"Austrian Capital and Interest Theory: Wieser's Contribution and the Menger Tradition"

A.M. Endres Updated 1/15/2007

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"Defense of the Misesian Theory of Interest, In"

Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/15/2007

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"Intertemporal Adam Smith, The"

Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/15/2007

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"Misesian Case Against Keynes, The"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Time, Complexity, and Change: Ludwig M. Lachmann's Contributions to the Theory of Capital"

Peter Lewin Updated 1/15/2007

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Consumption of Capital in Austria, The

Fritz Machlup Updated 1/15/2007

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"Theory of Interest, A"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"Risk and Business Cycles: New and Old Austrian Perspectives by Tyler Cowen"

Larry J. Sechrest Updated 1/15/2007

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"Reisman on Capitalism"

George Reisman Updated 1/15/2007

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"Response to Reisman on Capitalism"

Alexander Tabarrok Updated 1/15/2007

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"Hayek-Keynes Debate, The: Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research"

Ludwig van den Hauwe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Capital and Time in Ecological Economics: Neo-Austrian Modelling by Malte Faber, et al."

Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/15/2007

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"Free Banking and Credit Creation: Implications for Business Cycle Theory"

John P. Cochran Updated 1/15/2007

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"Austrian Subjectivist Theory of Interest: An Investigation into the History of Thought, The"

Robert P. Murphy Updated 1/15/2007

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"Rethinking Time and Money at the Beginning of the 21st Century"

Ludwig van den Hauwe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Capital, Credit, and the Medium Run"

Larry J. Sechrest Updated 1/15/2007

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"Does the Concept of Secular Growth Have a Place in Capital-Based Macroeconomics?"

Joseph T. Salerno Updated 1/15/2007

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"Garrisonian Macroeconomics"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"Two Contributions of Garrison's Time and Money, The"

Randall G. Holcombe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Capital-Based Macroeconomics: Recent Developments and Extensions of Austrian Business Cycle Theory"

John P. Cochran Updated 1/15/2007

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"Capital Based Macroeconomics: Boom and Bust in Japan and the U.S."

John P. Cochran Updated 1/15/2007

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"Optimal Monetary Policy"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"In Defense of the Misesian Theory of Interest"

Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/15/2007

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"Binary Economics: Paradigm Shift or Cluster of Errors?"

Timothy D. Terrell Updated 1/15/2007

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"Interest: In Defense of Mises"

J. Patrick Gunning Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist's View"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Freedom is Slavery: Laissez-Faire Capitalism is Government Intervention: A Critique of Kevin Carson's <em>Studies in Mutualist Political Economy</em>"

George Reisman Updated 1/15/2007

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"Toward a Calculational Theory and Policy of Intergenerational Sustainability"

John Bratland Updated 1/15/2007

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