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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...
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...
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...
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...
Introduction to Austrian Economics, An

Thomas C. Taylor Updated 5/17/2011

For the serious student, this exposition of the essentials of Austrian economics is excellent. Taylor discusses all the fundamental aspects of Austrian thought, from subjectivism and marginal utility to inflation and the business cycle. This new and...
Myth of National Defense, The: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 5/13/2011

With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services. It argues that "nat...
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 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...
Debt: Private and Public, Good and Bad

Sir Ernest Benn Updated 5/25/2010

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The Market for Liberty

Morris and Linda Tannehill Updated 5/14/2010

Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and labored discipline. But other classics are written in a white heat during the moment of discovery, with prose that shines forth like the sun pouring into the window of a time...
The Return to Laisser Faire

Sir Ernest Benn Updated 6/5/2009

Ernest J. P. Benn The Return To Laisser Faire...
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...
Networks, Information, and Technology

Peter G. Klein Updated 8/2/2008

Peter Klein Microsoft PowerPoint - Networks, Information, and Technology Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
The Corporation and the Free Market

Peter G. Klein Updated 8/1/2008

Peter Klein Microsoft PowerPoint - The Corporation and the Free Market Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
Production and the Firm

Peter G. Klein Updated 7/30/2008

Peter Klein Microsoft PowerPoint - Production and the firm Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
Essays in European Economic Thought

Louise Sommer Updated 1/29/2008

Louis Sommer Essays in European Economic Thought...
Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium: Exploration of Austrian Themes

Mario J. Rizzo Updated 11/2/2007

Mario J. Rizzo Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium...
"Monopoly Prices"

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/15/2007

J. Patrick Gunning Mises on the Evenly Rotating Economy Acrobat 3.0 Import Plug-in...
"National Goods versus Public Goods: Defense, Disarmament, and Free Riders"

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Updated 1/15/2007

Randall G. Holcombe A Theory of the Theory of Public Goods Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Antitrust Reform: Predatory Practices and the Competitive Process"

D.T. Armentano Updated 1/15/2007

Dominick T. Armentano Antitrust Reform: Predatory Practices and the Competitive Process Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
"Critique of Neoclassical and Austrian Monopoly Theory, A"

D.T. Armentano Updated 1/15/2007

DT Armentano A Critique of Mainstream and Austrian Theories of Monopoly Acrobat Distiller 7.0 (Windows)...
"Austrian Monopoly Theory: A Critique"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

DT Armentano A Critique of Mainstream and Austrian Theories of Monopoly Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Total Repeal of Antitrust Legislation: A Critique of Bork, Brozen, and Posner"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

DT Armentano A Critique of Mainstream and Austrian Theories of Monopoly Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"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...
"Vertical Restraints and the Retail Free Riding Problem: An Austrian Perspective"

David W. Boyd Updated 1/15/2007

DT Armentano A Critique of Mainstream and Austrian Theories of Monopoly Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Competition and Political Entrepreneurship: Austrian Insights into Public-Choice Theory"

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Updated 1/15/2007

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Competition and Political Entrepreneurship: Austrian Insights into Public-Choice Theory Acrobat PDFWriter 3.02 for Windows...
"Myth of Natural Monopoly, The"

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Updated 1/15/2007

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Competition and Political Entrepreneurship: Austrian Insights into Public-Choice Theory Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Industrial Organization and Human Action"

Kenneth G. Elzinga Updated 1/15/2007

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"Theory of the Firm: The Austrians as Precursors and Critics of Contemporary Theory, The"

Nicolai J. Foss Updated 1/15/2007

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Competition and Political Entrepreneurship: Austrian Insights into Public-Choice Theory Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Economic Calculation and the Limits of Organization"

Peter G. Klein Updated 1/15/2007

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Competition and Political Entrepreneurship: Austrian Insights into Public-Choice Theory Acrobat 3.0 Import Plug-in...
"Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance"

Peter G. Klein Updated 1/15/2007

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"New Institutional Economics"

Peter G. Klein Updated 1/15/2007

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"Firm, Money, and Economic Calculation: Considering the Institutional Nexus of Market Production, The"

Peter Lewin Updated 1/15/2007

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"Do Entreprenueurs Make Predictable Mistakes? Evidence from Corporate Divestitures"

Peter G. Klein Updated 1/15/2007

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"Competition as a Discovery Procedure"

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 1/15/2007

William hayek52.qxd Capitalism...
"Management vs. the Market: An Exaggerated Distinction"

Don Mathews Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Synergy Trap: How Companies Lose the Acquisition Game by Mark L. Sirower"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

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"What is Morally Right With Insider Trading?"

Tibor R. Machan Updated 1/15/2007

Jeff Tucker Insidertrading.PDF Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Windows NT...
"Winners, Losers, and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology by Stan Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis"

D.T. Armentano Updated 1/15/2007

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"Comment on Canice Prendergast's 'A Theory of "Yes Men"'"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

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"Misesian Ownership and Coasian Authority in Hayekian Settings: The Case of the Knowledge Economy"

Nicolai J. Foss Updated 1/15/2007

Murray N. Rothbard Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Windows...
"Can Agency Theory Justify the Regulation of Insider Trading?"

Alexandre Padilla Updated 1/15/2007

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Optimal Monetary Policy Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Windows deflation...
"Contestable Market Theory as a Regulatory Framework: An Austrian Postmortem"

John Bratland Updated 1/15/2007

John Brätland Contestable Market Theory as a Regulatory Framework: An Austrian Postmortem Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 (Windows)...
"A Critique of Mises's Theory of Monopoly Prices"

Diana Costea Updated 1/15/2007

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"Resource Allocation: A Hayekian Paradigm for Maritime Conglomerates"

Gary A. Lombardo Updated 1/15/2007

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"Technological Change and the Profit Motive"

Barry W. Poulson Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Corporation at Issue, Part I: The Clash of Classical Liberal Values and the Negative Consequences for Capitalist Practices"

Piet-Hein van Eeghen Updated 1/15/2007

Piet-Heit van Eeghen The Corporation at Issue, Part I: The Clash with Classical Liberal Values and the Negative Consequences for Capitalist Practice Acrobat Distiller 7.0 (Windows)...
"The Corporation at Issue, Part II: A Critique of Robert Hesson's <em>In Defense of the Corporation</em> and Proposed Conditions for Private Incorporation"

Piet-Hein van Eeghen Updated 1/15/2007

Piet-Hein Eeghen The Corporation at Issue, Part II: A Critique of Robert Hesson's In Defense of the Corporation and Proposed Conditions for Private Incorporation Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...