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Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction

01/01/2006 Ludwig von Mises

We can’t sit under Mises at his famous Vienna private seminar. We can’t go back in time and attend his New York seminar, or follow him to his speaking engagements that he held in the 50s and 60s. But thanks to this second volume in a thrilling...

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Meltdown

02/09/2009 Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Tom Woods covers the problem of housing subsidies, of low interest loans, of the absurdities of the boom times, and how it was inevitable that they would come to an end. He puts the fault right where it belongs: with the government and the...

Memoirs

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06/04/2009 Ludwig von Mises

These are difficult times for those who love freedom. But they are nothing like what Mises faced during his life. He prevailed, and his Memoirs explain how. We can learn from Mises in this respect too. “How one carries on in the face of...

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Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

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06/15/1943 Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of...

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Men Against the State: The Expositers of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827-1908

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06/13/1970 James J. Martin

America was home to the first full-blown movement of individualist anarchists in the 19th and early 20th century. The author of this book on the topic adds the adjective “individualist” to distinguish them from socialists. They were champions of...

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Men of Wealth: The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day

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02/15/1941 John T. Flynn

This book reminds us what a remarkable writer and journalist John T. Flynn truly was. It is a first-class business history, by any standard. It is the story of great fortunes made by the most notable men of wealth in history: Jacob Fugger, John...

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Men, Motors, and Markets

Tags: The Entrepreneur, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/15/1959 Dean Russell

During the early history of the automobile industry, practically every part of the car was produced by the independent manufacturers of parts. The automobile companies merely assembled the parts into a complete car. And as often as not, it was...

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Method, Process, and Austrian Economics by Israel Kirzner

Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises

07/15/1983 Israel M. Kirzner

From Kirzner’s foreword: September 29, 1981 marked the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of my teacher, Ludwig von Mises. Mises was a towering scholar in a number of fields, but it was as a world-renowned economist in the “Austrian”...

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Methodological Individualism

01/03/1980 Joseph Schumpeter

In the Preface, Hayek writes: Schumpeter was very much a “master of his subject”, in contrast to the “puzzlers” or “muddlers” which follow their own distinct ideas; he also showed a strong receptivity to the dominant opinions in his environment...

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Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View

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07/30/1984 Ron Paul

Ron Paul deserves a high place in the history of liberty for being the only seriously principled statesman to serve in the US House of Representatives in the last quarter of the 20th century. It should not be a surprise to discover that Ludwig...

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Mises in America

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03/20/2009 William H. Peterson

The great essayist and economist pens a tribute to his colleague and teacher. Dr. Peterson knew Dr. Mises well. Both were professors at New York University. In this monograph, he describes his temperament and personality as well as his scholarly...

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Mises on Money

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12/12/2011 Gary North

Before Austrian economics came on the scene, monetary theory was a hodge-podge of disjointed insights. Nobody knew how to integrate those insights into a system, much less how to integrate monetary theory with the rest of economics. Carl Menger...

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Mises Remembers Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

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02/11/2022 Ludwig von Mises Karl-Friedrich Israel

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) “On the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of His Death” [ Translator’s Note: A transcript of the German language original under the title “Der Economist Eugen v. Böhm-Bawerk—Zu...

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Mises Remembers Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

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02/11/2022 Ludwig von Mises Karl-Friedrich Israel

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) “On the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of His Death” [ Translator’s Note: A transcript of the German language original under the title “Der Economist Eugen v. Böhm-Bawerk—Zu...

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Mises: An Annotated Bibliography

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03/29/1993 Bettina Bien Greaves

An essential companion to all of Mises’s works, this easy-to-use bibliography covers his life from Vienna to New York. It provides summaries of his works and detailed publication information--a real treasure trove. A special treat is the...

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Mises: An Annotated Bibliography; 1982-1993

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03/29/1995 Bettina Bien Greaves

The second volume of Bettina Bien Greaves’s complete bibliography of Mises. It tells who has been writing about Mises, where, and what they had to say. Using this book is a useful way to track the progress of the Austrian School since the...

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Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

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09/04/2007 Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Here is a magisterial book for today and the ages, one that inspires awe for both the subject and the author who accomplished the seemingly impossible: a sweeping intellectual biography, constructed from original sources, of the 20th century’s...

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Modern Economic Problems

01/01/1917 Frank A. Fetter

The present volume deals with various specific problems in economics. Writes Fetter: Truth, when at last found, is simpler than error, but often it is to be attained only by the hard road of analytic and abstract thought that follows through to...

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Monetary Nationalism and International Stability

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01/01/1937 Friedrich A. Hayek

In five lectures delivered in 1937, Kayek “extended Mises’ monetary theory to provide a groundbreaking analysis of the international operation of the pure gold standard… the first comprehensive case against so-called freely fluctuating exchange...

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Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle

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01/01/1929 Friedrich A. Hayek

Published originally in 1929, Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle is the first essay Friedrich A. Hayek wrote. It serves as a primer into Hayek’s monetary and capital theories. In it, he takes the time to dismember opposing monetary theories of...

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