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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...
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...
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...
Socialism and International Economic Order

Elizabeth Tamedly Updated 12/13/2011

This extraordinary book by Elisabeth Tamedly, as scholarly as it is passionate, argues that socialism, despite its internationalist aspirations, is not capable of accomplishing stable international peace and order. If we postulate a true democracy, s...
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...
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...
Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, A

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 3/23/2011

Here is Hans Hoppe's first treatise in English - actually his first book in English - and the one that put him on the map as a social thinker and economist to watch. He argued that there are only two possible archetypes in economic affairs: socia...
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...
"Intellectuals and Socialism"

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 9/8/2010

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Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/25/2010

The cover is from a Greek portrayal of the reality of war -- a fitting portrayal too of life under socialism, in which brute force is the only way to secure control over resources essential to life. This edition is the original as published by Yal...
Die Gemeinwirtschaft

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/14/2010

Mises's book Socialism might be the bravest and most revolutionary book of the 20th century. Here is the second edition of the German original, with a beautiful cover and handsomely bound for the serious reader and collection....
Time Will Run Back

Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/20/2010

Here is a splendid novel by Henry Hazlitt, first published in 1951 and revised in 1966. The plot line explores the economic theories of capitalism and socialism. It begins in a fully socialist society in which the new leader, who finds himself in...
Collectivism: A False Utopia

William Henry Chamberlin Updated 4/15/2008

William Henry Chamberlain Collectivism: A False Utopia (1937)...
"Mises and Hayek Dehomogenized"

Joseph T. Salerno Updated 1/15/2007

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"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...
"Markets True and False: The Case of Yugoslavia"

James A. Dorn Updated 1/15/2007

Murray N. Rothbard Breaking Out of the Walrasian Box: The Cases of Schumpeter and Hansen Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Information and the Market Economy: A Note on a Common Marxist Fallacy"

Nicolai J. Foss Updated 1/15/2007

Murray N. Rothbard Breaking Out of the Walrasian Box: The Cases of Schumpeter and Hansen Acrobat 3.0 Import Plug-in...
"Calculation and the Question of Arithmetic"

Jeffrey M. Herbener Updated 1/15/2007

Murray N. Rothbard Breaking Out of the Walrasian Box: The Cases of Schumpeter and Hansen Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"De-Socialization in a United Germany"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 1/15/2007

Murray N. Rothbard Breaking Out of the Walrasian Box: The Cases of Schumpeter and Hansen Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Socialism: A Property or Knowledge Problem?"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 1/15/2007

Murray N. Rothbard Breaking Out of the Walrasian Box: The Cases of Schumpeter and Hansen Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Knowledge, Judgement, and the Use of Property"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

Hans-Hermann Hoppe A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism Acrobat 3.0 Import Plug-in...
"Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians, The"

Israel M. Kirzner Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Acrobat 3.0 Import Plug-in...
"Reflections on the Misesian Legacy in Economics"

Israel M. Kirzner Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Critique of the Standard Account of the Socialist Calculation Debate, A"

Don Lavoie Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Firm, Money and Economic Calculation, The"

Peter Lewin Updated 1/15/2007

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"Impossibility of Socialist Economy, or, A Cat Cannot Swim the Atlantic Ocean, The"

Morgan O. Reynolds Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Acrobat 3.0 Import Plug-in...
"End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited, The"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"How and How Not to Desocialize"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Ludwig von Mises as a Social Rationalist"

Joseph T. Salerno Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Reply to Leland B. Yeager on "Mises and Hayek on Calculation and Knowledge"

Joseph T. Salerno Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Posing the Problem: The Impossibility of Economic Calculation Under Socialism"

David Ramsay Steele Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Calculation and Knowledge: Let's Write Finis"

Leland B. Yeager Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner VENTURA Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Mises and Hayek And Calculation and Knowledge"

Leland B. Yeager Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner VENTURA Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Rejoinder: Salerno on Calculation, Knowledge, and Appraisment"

Leland B. Yeager Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner VENTURA Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy

Peter J. Boettke Updated 1/15/2007

Jane CC prelims revises Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh...
"Management vs. the Market: An Exaggerated Distinction"

Don Mathews Updated 1/15/2007

Unknown PrecisionScan Acrobat PDFWriter 3.02 for Windows...
"Market, The: Ethics, Knowledge, and Politics, by John O'Neill"

David Gordon Updated 1/15/2007

Hoppe VENTURA Acrobat PDFWriter 4.0 for Windows...
"On Property and Exploitation"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

Walter Block and Hans-Hermann Hoppe On Property and Exploitation Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Windows...
"Environmentalism and Economic Freedom: The Case for Private Property Rights"

Walter Block Updated 1/15/2007

Walter Block Environmentalism and Economic Freedom Acrobat Distiller 3.0 for Windows...
"The Forgotten Contribution: Murray Rothbard on Socialism in Theory and in Practice"

Peter J. Boettke Updated 1/15/2007

Peter J. Boettke and Christopher J. Coyne The Forgotten Contribution: Murray Rothbard on Socialism in Theory and in Practice Acrobat Distiller 6.0 (Windows)...
"The Hayek and Mises Controversy: Bridging Differences"

Odd J. Stalebrink Updated 1/15/2007

Odd J. Stalebrink On Hayek and Mises Controversy: Bridging Differences...
"Introduction: An Economic Critique of Socialism"

Don Lavoie Updated 1/15/2007

William CochranCall61.qxd Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in deflation...
"The Failure of Bolshevism and Its Aftermath"

David Ramsay Steele Updated 1/15/2007

William CochranCall61.qxd Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in deflation...
"Land-Use Planning: Implications of the Economic Calculation Debate"

E.C. Pasour Jr. Updated 1/15/2007

William CochranCall61.qxd Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in deflation...
""The Forgotten Contribution: Murray Rothbard on Socialism in Theory and in Practice" and the Reinterpretation of the Socialist Calculation Debate: A Comment"

Dennis A. Sperduto Updated 1/15/2007

Dennis A. Sperduto "The Forgotten Contribution: Murray Rothbard on Socialism in Theory and in Practice" and the Reinterpretation of the Socialist Calculation Debate: A Comment Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 (Windows)...
"Restructuring Before Privatization—Putting the Cart Before the Horse: A Case Study of the Steel Industry in Romania"

Peter T. Calcagno Updated 1/15/2007

william calcagno.qxd Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 (Windows) Our Enemy The State...
"Cantor's Diagonal Argument: An Extension to the Socialist Calculation Debate"

Robert P. Murphy Updated 1/15/2007

judy murphy.qxd Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows) Our Enemy The State...
"Toward a Calculational Theory and Policy of Intergenerational Sustainability"

John Bratland Updated 1/15/2007

judy bratland.qxd Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows) Our Enemy The State...