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The Development of Economics
William A Scott Updated 5/2/2012
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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,"... -
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 School of Salamanca
Marjorie Grice-Hutichinson Updated 7/19/2011
Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson's remarkable classic, The School of Salamanca, posed an extraordinary challenge when it first appeared in 1952. The book is not only a pioneering presentation of this lost school of monetary theory--fantastic thinkers of... -
Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/14/2011
For many who have read this book-length essay, it marked a turning point in a new understanding. The mainstream will forever attempt to pigeonhole belief systems based on the left-right dichotomy. The right supposedly favors economic freedom plus... -
The Production of Security
Gustave de Molinari Updated 6/27/2011
The introduction to this stunning work is by Murray Rothbard, who calls French radical Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) the great innovator in the market provision of security. Indeed, he might be regarded as the first proponent of what is called anar... -
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... -
Jefferson
Albert Jay Nock Updated 4/28/2011
Here is Albert Jay Nock's classic study on the life and thought of Thomas Jefferson, a book which draws out points other biographers have missed: his radicalism, his opposition to all centralized government, his attachment to liberty and property... -
Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics
Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/21/2011
This little essay offers something spectacular: an intellectual history of Mises's own tradition, with first person accounts of conversations with the greats. And truly, Mises turns out to have written the best single account of the origin and ea... -
Hayek and His Lamentable Contemporaries
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010
The final lecture in a series of six on the History of Economic Thought. [1:07:46]... -
Mises and Austrian Economics
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010
The fifth in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [56:38]... -
Menger and Böhm-Bawerk
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010
The fourth in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:37]... -
The Pre-Austrians
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010
The third in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:55]... -
Ideology and Theories of History
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010
The first in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:06:34]... -
The Emergence of Communism
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010
The second in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:47]... -
The Present State of Austrian Economics
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/12/2010
Murray Rothbard The Present State of Austrian Economics Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)... -
"Austrian School and the Theory of Value, The"
Friedrich von Wieser Updated 9/28/2007
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The Social and Political Philosophy of Adam Ferguson: A Commentary on his Essay on the History of Civil Society
Ronald Hamowy Updated 7/10/2007
Ronald Hamowy The Social and Political Philosophy of Adam Ferguson... -
"Protectionist Roots of Antitrust, The"
Donald J. Boudreaux Updated 1/15/2007
DT Armentano A Critique of Mainstream and Austrian Theories of Monopoly Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in... -
"Austrian Capital and Interest Theory: Wieser's Contribution and the Menger Tradition"
A.M. Endres Updated 1/15/2007
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The Political Economy of William Graham Sumner: A Study in the History of Free-Enterprise Ideas
D.T. Armentano 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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"'Hayek's Liberalism and Its Origins: His Idea of Spontaneous Order and the Scottish Enlightenment' by Christinia Petsoulas"
G. R. Steele Updated 1/15/2007
Murray N. Rothbard Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Windows... -
"Cantillon's Essai: A Current Perspective"
Vincent J. Tarascio Updated 1/15/2007
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"Was Richard Cantillon an Austrian Economist?"
Robert F. Hébert Updated 1/15/2007
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"West's "Cantillon and Adam Smith" : A Comment"
Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/15/2007
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"Influence of Cantillon's Essai on the Methodology of J.B. Say: A Comment on Liggio"
Joseph T. Salerno Updated 1/15/2007
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"Lord Townshend and the Influence of Moral Philosophy on Laissez Faire"
Salim Rashid Updated 1/15/2007
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"An Integration of The Wealth of Nations with The Theory of Moral Sentiments"
Jeffrey M. Herbener Updated 1/15/2007
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"World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals"
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007
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"Adam Smith's Acknowledgments: Neo-Plagiarism and the Wealth of Nations"
Salim Rashid Updated 1/15/2007
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"Austrian Perspective on Some Leading Jacksonian Monetary Theorists"
James P. Philbin Updated 1/15/2007
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"Rashid on Adam Smith: In Need of Proof"
James C.W. Ahiakpor Updated 1/15/2007
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"Adam Smith and Neo-Plagiarism: A Reply"
Salim Rashid Updated 1/15/2007
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"Intellectual Standards of Adam Smith's Day"
Salim Rashid Updated 1/15/2007
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"Political Economy of The Antifederalists"
James P. Philbin 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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"Milton Friedman Unraveled"
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007
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"George Stigler and the Myth of Efficient Government"
Thomas J. DiLorenzo Updated 1/15/2007
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"Douglass C. North and Non-Marxist Institutional Determinism"
Joseph R. Stromberg Updated 1/15/2007
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"Praxeology as Law & Economics"
Josef Sima Updated 1/15/2007
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"Samuelson and Rothbard: Two Texts and Two Legacies"
Shawn Ritenour Updated 1/15/2007
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"Review of <em>Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics</em> by Alejandro Chafuen"
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Updated 1/15/2007
Thomas E. Woods Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics by Alejandro A. Chafuen Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)... -
"Editorial to Symposium Issue on Studies in Mutualist Political Economy"
Roderick T. Long Updated 1/15/2007
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"Book Review of <em>The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era</em> and <em>The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy</em> by Thomas E. Woods, Jr."
Samuel Bostaph Updated 1/15/2007
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"Book Review: <em>Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development, and Current State</em> by Brian Snowdon and Howard R. Vane"
Jerry H. Tempelman Updated 1/15/2007
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