Books

War and the Money Machine: Concealing the Costs of War beneath the Veil of Inflation

Tags: Inflation, War and Foreign Policy

08/21/2021 • Joseph T. Salerno

In every great war monetary calculation was disrupted by inflation. … The economic behavior of the belligerents was thereby led astray; the true consequences of the war were removed from their view. One can say without exaggeration that...

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War Collectivism

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History

05/16/2012 • Murray N. Rothbard

More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a "war collectivism," a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interest through the instrumentality of the central...

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War, Christianity, and the State

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Laurence M. Vance

These seventy-six essays, organized under the headings of Christianity and War, Christianity and the Military, Christianity and the Warfare State, and Christianity and Torture, have one underlying theme: the relation of Christianity to war, the...

War, Empire, and the Military

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Taxes and Spending, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Laurence M. Vance

With War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Police, Laurence Vance, a relentless critic of the state and its wars, has updated his already extensive writings on war and empire to include new material in this...

Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers

Tags: Big Government, Strategy

11/14/2016 • Walter Block • Peter Lothian Nelson

Water covers some 75 percent of the earth’s surface, while land covers 25 percent, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1 percent of world GDP, the latter 99 percent plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are...

Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers

Tags: Big Government, Strategy

11/14/2016 • Walter Block • Peter Lothian Nelson

Water covers some 75 percent of the earth’s surface, while land covers 25 percent, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1 percent of world GDP, the latter 99 percent plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are...

We

Tags: Media and Culture

08/01/1983 • Yevgeny Zamyatin

“[Zamyatin’s] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism — human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself — makes [We] superior to Huxley’s [Brave New World].” —George Orwell An inspiration for George Orwell’s 1984 and a precursor...

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We Who Dared to Say No to War

Tags: Introductory, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/09/2008 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

We Who Dared to Say No to War uncovers some of the forgotten but compelling body of work from the American antiwar tradition speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, political cartoons, and more - from people throughout our history who have...

Wealth: A Brief Explanation of the Causes of Economic Welfare

Tags: Money and Banks

06/15/1948 • Edwin Cannan

Wealth has so generally been identified with the subject-matter of economics that we need not hesitate to treat the question, "What is wealth?" as exactly the same question as "What is it most convenient to take as the subject-matter of...

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What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Mises U Required Readings, Introductory, Featured, Money and Banks

06/15/1963 • Murray N. Rothbard

When this gem first appeared in 1963, it took the form of a small paperback designed for mass distribution. Innumerable economists, investors, commentators, and authors have learned from this book through the decades. After fifty years, it...

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What Must Be Done

Tags: Big Government, The Police State

06/24/2009 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

How should anarcho-capitalists engage the modern state? Hans-Hermann Hoppe dissects the nature of the modern democratic state and suggests strategies for enacting a bottom-up libertarian revolution in ideology and civil government. Hoppe begins...

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What Social Classes Owe Each Other

06/27/1883 • William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a sociologist at Yale University, a historian of American banking, and great expositor of classical liberalism. Yes, this is the man often dismissed today as an outmoded "social Darwinist" — and this book...

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What We Know and What We Don't Know about the Firm

Tags: The Entrepreneur

03/08/2019 • Per Bylund

[This is a chapter from The Problem of Production: A New Theory of the Firm.] This book is about what is generally referred to as the ‘firm’, a phenomenon in the market that appears obvious but that remains difficult to explain. While there is a...

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What You Should Know About Inflation

Tags: Money and Banks

07/01/1964 • Henry Hazlitt

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...

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Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, Money and Banks, World History

01/08/2016 • Richard J. Maybury

It's true that economic theory is a subject for adults — you don't want to assign Human Action to an 11-year old — but kids can be taught plenty too. They don't need details about epistemology or exchange rates. But by enticing them into the...

When Mainstream Economics Was Wrong, Mark Thornton Was Right

Tags: Booms and Busts

08/11/2018 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

[ Foreword to Mark Thornton's new book The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 2018).] In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the economics...

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When Money Dies

Tags: Introductory, Money and Banks, World History

06/01/1975 • Adam Fergusson

The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany. This was a time of bizarre parallels: amazing riches coinciding with terrible poverty, mass quantities of money coinciding with a shortage of money, mania and...

Where Keynes Went Wrong

10/01/2009 • Hunter Lewis

Hunter Lewis's book Where Keynes Went Wrong was the greatest literary surprise of 2009, a welcome relief from a slew of awful books on economics appearing in the popular press. Lewis's book is thoroughly Austrian, a recapitulation of Hazlitt's...

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Where Lies This Fault?

06/21/1967 • Leonard E. Read

In this 1967 essay, Leonard Read lays out what might best be termed a sociological study of libertarian activism. Read attempts to identify different types of personalities and individuals who are likely to be amenable or resistant to the...

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While You Slept

Tags: Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/01/1951 • John T. Flynn

The amazing step-by-step, person-by-person story of how the American left wing took over our most influential media — radio, movies, magazines and books — and persuaded our leaders to support the Communist Plan to turn China and Korea over to...

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