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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...
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...
The Great Depression

Lionel Robbins Updated 1/24/2012

The New Deals of America and Britain were a decade-long calamity that exceeded the damage of the economic downturn itself. The theory behind the policy was all wrong, but no one can say that the correct theory was not in circulation. This splendi...
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...
Crises and Cycles

Wilhelm Röpke Updated 1/10/2012

It's hard to say what is the most rare, most hard to find, most buried important book, in the history of the Austrian School. But this splendid and critically important treatise would certainly be among the nominees. Until this edition, this...
America's Great Depression

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/14/2011

Applied Austrian economics doesn't get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history. The Mises In...
Banking and the Business Cycle

Chester A. Phillips Updated 12/14/2011

This rare study by C.A. Phillips, together with T.F. McManus and R.W. Nelson, appeared in 1937 as an Austrian-style analysis of the stock market crash and the great depression that followed. It explores the many theories tossed about at the time,...
The Economics of Illusion

L. Albert Hahn Updated 10/7/2011

L. Albert Hahn was one of the most highly regarded economists and bankers in Germany before World War II, but he was unknown in the United States until this translation of The Economics of Illusion appeared in 1949. He immigrated to the United States...
The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 9/30/2011

The panic of 1819 was America's first great economic crisis. And this is Murray Rothbard's masterful account, the first full scholarly book on the topic and still the most definitive. It was his dissertation, published in 1962 but nearly impo...
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...
The Bubble that Broke the World

Garet Garrett Updated 9/15/2011

What caused the stock-market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed? This book blows away the conventional interpretations, not only in its contents but that the book exists at all. The Bubble that Broke the World was written in 1931....
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...
Tiger by the Tail

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 8/8/2011

F.A. Hayek said that his biggest regret in a lifetime of writing was that he never wrote a book-length refutation of Keynesian economics. He seriously doubted that Keynesian style planning would ever captivate governments, so he focused on differ...
Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/18/2011

Need a short monograph on Austrian business cycle theory? This is the one to get. Murray Rothbard was the master of reducing complicated theories to their very essence while retaining theoretical rigor, and this essay is a case in point. It was writ...
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...
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 New Deal in Old Rome

H. J. Haskell Updated 4/5/2011

How Government in the Ancient World Tried to Deal with Modern Problems What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. H.J. Haskell was a journalist with a huge background in ancient history, and here he does...
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...
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...
Manipulation of Money and Credit, On the

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/20/2010

Ludwig von Mises Causes of the Economic Crisis Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
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...
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...
Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 7/12/2007

F.A. Hayek Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle...
"Recession of 1990:A Comment, The"

Paul Cwik Updated 1/15/2007

Richard H. Timberlake A Critique of Monetarist and Austrian Doctrines on the Utility and Value of Money Acrobat 3.0 Import Plug-in...
"Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle in the Light of Modern Macroeconomics, The"

Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/15/2007

Roger W. Garrison The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle in the Light of Modern Macroeconomics Acrobat 3.0 Import Plug-in...
"New Classical and Old Austrian Economics: Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory in Perspective"

Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/15/2007

Roger Garrison New Classical and Old Austrian Economics: Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory in Perspective Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Central Banking, Free Banking, and Financial Crises"

Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/15/2007

Roger Garrison New Classical and Old Austrian Economics: Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory in Perspective Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Why the U.S. Economy is Not Depression- Proof"

Mark Skousen Updated 1/15/2007

Mark Skousen Why the U.S. Economy Is Not Depression-Proof Acrobat PDFWriter 4.0 for Windows...
"Great Depression of 1946, The"

Richard Vedder Updated 1/15/2007

G.R. Steele Hayek's Money Economy: The Dynamics of Competitive Equilibrium and Socio-Economic Order Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Risk and Business Cycles: New and Old Austrian Perspectives by Tyler Cowen"

Larry J. Sechrest Updated 1/15/2007

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"Post-Modern Economics: The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman"

Shawn Ritenour 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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"The Fraud of Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy"

Lowell Gallaway Updated 1/15/2007

Paul Cwik VENTURA Acrobat PDFWriter 4.0 for Windows...
"Yes, We Have No Chaff: A Reply to Wagner's 'Austrian Cycle Theory: Saving the Wheat While Discarding the Chaff'"

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

Randall G. Holcombe Updated 1/15/2007

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"Apoplithorismosphobia"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

Mark Thornton Apoplithorismosphobia deflation...
"Deflation—When Austrians Become Interventionists"

Philipp Bagus Updated 1/15/2007

Philipp Bagus Deflation—When Austrians Become Interventionists deflation...
"Deflation Teaser? Klondike Bars and the Golden 90s in Canada"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

Mark Thornotn Deflation Teaser? Klondike Bars and the Golden 90s in Canada deflation...
"Boom and Bust: The Political Economy of Economic Disorder"

Richard E. Wagner Updated 1/15/2007

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"Deflation and Japan Revisited"

Richard C.B. Johnsson Updated 1/15/2007

Richard C.B. Johnsson Deflation and Japan Revisited Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 (Windows)...
"Skyscrapers and Business Cycles"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

Mark Thornton Skyscrapers and Business Cycles Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 (Windows)...
"A Reconsideration of the Austrian Theory of Industrial Fluctuations"

Ludwig M. Lachmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"Commodity Stocks in the Trade Cycle"

Ludwig M. Lachmann 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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