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Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises (Middle of the Road Leads to Socialism; Liberty and Property)

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/10/2013

In "Liberty and Property," Mises demonstrates how poverty, starvation, disease, and serfdom dominated the pre-capitalist ages, and how the market brought liberation for the masses of men. Socialism, in contrast, embodies hatred for liberty...
Prices and Production

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 5/7/2013

Hayek was not only a leading champion of liberty in the 20th century. As this massive book reveals, he was also a great economist whose elaboration on monetary theory and the business cycle made him the leading foe of Keynesian theory and policy in t...
Individualism and Economic Order

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 5/6/2013

If you are looking to acquaint yourself with F.A. Hayek's perspective on economic theory--beyond his business cycle and monetary studies of the interwar years--this is the best source. The collection appeared in 1947, before he moved on toward br...
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...
The Economics of Liberty

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (ed.) Updated 4/25/2013

This collection of short, entertaining, and educational articles exposes how government interference with the economy violates individual liberty, leads to inefficiencies, and rewards special interests. This collection appeared in 1991 and it holds u...
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,...
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/4/2012

Latest edition includes an introduction by Lew Rockwell. In For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for us...
Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941

Charles Callan Tansill Updated 11/6/2012

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

Garet Garrett Updated 11/6/2012

"One story of us is continuous. It is the story of our struggle to recapture the Garden of Eden, meaning by that a state of existence free from the doom of toil." Garett explores the consequences of advancing technology and industrial...
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Etienne de la Boetie Updated 7/19/2012

States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant—when consent is withdrawn. This is the thesis of this thrilling book. Murray Rothbard writes a classic introduction to one of the great political essays in the history...
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Albert Jay Nock Updated 7/19/2012

Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of soci...
The Foundations of Morality

Henry Hazlitt Updated 6/28/2012

Here is Hazlitt's major philosophical work, in which he grounds a policy of private property and free markets in an ethic of classical utilitarianism, understood in the way Mises understood that term. In writing this book, Hazlitt is reviving an...
The Turgot Collection: Writings, Speeches, and Letters of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

A.R.J. Turgot Updated 5/24/2012

This outstanding book was ten years in the making, but it is finally here and the result is startling. It is a pocket edition, super economical, 525 pages of Turgot – the bulk of his life’s work, all beautifully organized. He mig...
Conceived in Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/14/2012

The new single-volume edition of Conceived in Liberty is here! After so many years of having to juggle four volumes, the Mises Institute has finally put it altogether in a single, 1,616-page book. This makes it easier to read, and makes clearer just...
Lessons for the Young Economist Teacher's Manual

Robert P. Murphy Updated 5/14/2012

This is the teacher's manual to accompany the student textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist. View the textbook Lessons for the Young Economist here. The manual follows the student text very closely (the student text is needed separat...
America's Second Crusade

William Henry Chamberlin Updated 5/2/2012

Was World War II a failure? It is an unthinkable thought in the American political ethos. but noted American journalist and author William Henry Chamberlin dares think it, from the vantage point of the immediate postwar world of 1950. "Not on...
The Development of Economics

William A Scott Updated 5/2/2012

William A. Scott The Development of Economics...
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...
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...
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...
The Common Sense of Political Economy, Volume 1

Philip H. Wicksteed Updated 2/10/2012

Phillip H. Wicksteed The Common Sense of Political Economy, vol. 1...
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 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...
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...