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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Fiat Money Inflation in France

Andrew Dickson White Updated 10/3/2011

In Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White presents the still-largely-unknown story of a major factor behind the French Revolution. As John Mackay writes in the foreword, It records the most gigantic attempt ever made in the history...
Money, Method, and the Market Process

Ludwig von Mises Updated 9/29/2011

Edited by Richard M. Ebeling This volume might be called the Mises Reader, for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like "Observations on the Cooperative Movement,"...
A Short History of Paper Money and Banking

William M. Gouge Updated 9/20/2011

"The bank was saved but the money was ruined." So says William Gouge (1796–1863), one of the best political economists of the American 19th century. He is speaking of the panic of 1819, but his sentence could sum up the w...
Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers

Charles Holt Carroll Updated 9/20/2011

Charles Holt Carroll defended sound money in a blazing series of essays appearing in the latter decades of the 19th century. They are all collected here, in The Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers. Little is known of Charles Holt Car...
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...
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...
The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (ed.) Updated 8/31/2011

This anthology contains seminal essays on the ideal monetary system. From Sennholz's discussion of Mengerian monetary theory to Ron Paul's espousal of a political agenda that champions a gold standard, readers will find that this book serves...
Deflation and Liberty

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 8/12/2011

This monograph addresses a critically important issue: the prevailing view that deflation (falling prices and/or falling money stock) is a catastrophe that must be stopped. Jorg Guido Hulsmann shows that deflation is nothing to fear. The government s...
Choice in Currency

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 7/24/2011

A path-breaking essay by Hayek, newly in print in cooperation with the Institute of Economic Affairs, this piece first appeared in 1976, during an inflationary bout in the U.S.. Hayek saw that it was crucial to bring the forces of competition to bear...
The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays

Richard M. Ebeling Updated 7/13/2011

New edition with an introduction by Roger Garrison and an index. Booms and busts are not endemic to the free market, argues the Austrian theory of the business cycle, but come about through manipulation of money and credit by central banks. In this m...
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...
Principles of Economics

Carl Menger Updated 5/31/2011

Principles of Economics: Pocket Edition from Mises Media on Vimeo. This edition is absolutely gorgeous - handy, economical, and beautifully printed. We've never had an edition of this core work that is so nicely done. In the beginning, ther...
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...
Gold, Peace, and Prosperity

Ron Paul Updated 4/7/2011

Revised Pocket Edition! The second edition of Gold, Peace, and Prosperity is just 4.25" x .4" x 7 " in size. Truly portable and available at volume discounts. The book has been newly type set and all images updated. This is the perfe...
Case for Gold, The

Ron Paul Updated 2/12/2011

This is the LvMI 2nd Edition! Pocket sized 5" x 7" and with a new foreword by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Here is the revolutionary book on monetary reform - brilliant, compelling, clear, with specific reforms to do now - in an edition fo...
The Concise Guide To Economics

Jim Cox Updated 2/9/2011

To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. The Concise Guide To Economics is a handy, quick reference guide for...
A Treatise on Currency and Banking

Condy Raguet Updated 1/31/2011

This remarkable hard-money treatise appeared in 1840. It is by Condy Raguet (1784-1842), a noted Pennsylvania politician and economist who worked as a merchant in several Latin American countries. He was wholly dedicated to free trade, the free marke...
The Theory of Money and Credit

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/26/2011

Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money to ever appear. It made his reputation across Europe and established him as the most important economist of his age. We t...
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...
"New Light on the Prehistory of the Theory of Banking and the School of Salamanca"

Jesus Huerta de Soto Updated 10/26/2010

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History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/25/2010

Hardcover Edition The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose cre...
A Regulated Gold Standard

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 9/14/2010

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Mystery of Banking, The

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/24/2010

The Mystery of Banking from Mises Media on Vimeo. Talk about great timing. Rothbard's extraordinary book unravels the mystery of banking: what is legitimate enterprise and what is a government-backed shell game that can't last. His explana...
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...
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...
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...
"International Currency: Gold vs. Bancor or Unitas"

Benjamin Anderson Updated 5/8/2009

Benjamin Anderson International Currency: GOLD VERSUS BANCOR OR UNITAS. Relais Int'l and AIS ImagePDF 1.06...
"Foreign Exchange Stabilization"

Benjamin Anderson Updated 5/8/2009

Foreign Exchange Stabilization: KEYNES AND MORGENTHAU PLANS. Relais Int'l and AIS ImagePDF 1.06...
"Alan Greenspan: Rand, Republicans, and Austrian Critics"

Larry J. Sechrest Updated 10/14/2008

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"The Uneasy Case for Fractional Reserve Banking"

Ludwig van den Hauwe Updated 3/12/2008

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Essays in European Economic Thought

Louise Sommer Updated 1/29/2008

Louis Sommer Essays in European Economic Thought...
Monetary Nationalism and International Stability

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 7/12/2007

F.A. Hayek Monetary Nationalism and International Stability...
"Cheap Money, Gold, and the Federal Reserve Bank Policy"

Benjamin Anderson Updated 7/5/2007

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Money and Man

Elgin Groseclose Updated 4/20/2007

Elgin Groseclose Money and Man...
"Option Clause in Free-Banking Theory and History: A Reappraisal, The"

Parth J. Shah Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Poet as Economist : Shelley's Critique of Paper Money and the British National Debt"

Paul A. Cantor Updated 1/15/2007

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"Dehomogenizing Mises's Monetary Theory"

Nikolay Gertchev Updated 1/15/2007

Nikolay Gertchev Dehomogenizing Mises's Monetary Theory Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Libertarian Legalism...
"Gold Bonds and Silver Agitation"

Clifford F. Thies Updated 1/15/2007

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"Carson's Rejoinders"

Kevin A. Carson Updated 1/15/2007

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"Book Review: <em>Deflation: Current and Historical Perspectives</em> by Richard C.K. Burdekin and Pierre L. Siklos, eds."

Nikolay Gertchev Updated 1/15/2007

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The Monetary Sin of the West

Jacques Rueff Updated 1/15/2007

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