Books

Not a Zero-Sum Game: The Paradox of Exchange

Tags: Introductory

07/29/2007 • Manuel F. Ayau

The key to understanding how society comes to be, works without central direction, and develops into a thriving civilization can be understood through the least understood idea in economics: the division of labor through comparative advantage...

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Notes and Recollections: With the Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics

Tags: Introductory, Biographies

01/11/2016 • Ludwig von Mises

Written between 1940 and 1941, shortly after he arrived in the United States, Notes and Recollections is in effect Mises’s pre-1940 intellectual autobiography. This work reveals how Mises developed his theories, wrote his books, lectured, and...

Notes on Democracy

Tags: Intermediate

01/11/2016 • H. L. Mencken

This book should come with a warning label. It is surely one of the most bracing books on politics in the history of the English language. There is more truth in these pages than most Americans are willing to face. What Mencken delivers here is...

Notes on Epistemology

05/25/1952 • John J. Toohey

Of Notes on Epistemology, Murray Rothbard writes: The unique place of reason in natural-law philosophy has been affirmed by the modern Thomistic philosopher, the late Father John Toohey. Toohey defined sound philosophy as follows: “Philosophy...

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Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

Tags: Introductory, Big Government

06/28/2010 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

The political agenda of the old liberals was not merely to limit the size of the government but also its scope. That means that lower orders of government have rights against higher ones. In the American context, that means that the state can...

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Tags: Big Government, World History

07/23/1944 • Ludwig von Mises

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent...

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On Doing the Right Thing

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1928 • Albert Jay Nock

This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his “Anarchist’s Progress,” “Thoughts on Revolution,” “The Decline of Conversation,” and other classics by this great American essayist and influential...

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On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises

Tags: Biographies

02/20/1957 • Mary Sennholz

This was the first Festschrift (1956) in Mises’s honor, and the essays it contains have proven fruitful sources for decades. This reprint features a new introduction. Preeminently, it contains Rothbard’s reconstruction of utility and welfare...

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On Liberty, Society, and Politics

Tags: Media and Culture

06/01/1992 • William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner is the “forgotten man” of American intellectual history and of the history of liberty. A thinker of extraordinary power, and a person who developed and integrated and thrilling view of the place of liberty in the...

On Money

08/27/2019 • Ferdinando Galiani

Translated from the Italian Della Moneta (1751) by Peter R. Toscano (1977). From Wikipedia: Summary Della Moneta is divided into five sections, covering what are still seen today as the standard aspects of monetary theory. These include the...

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On the Origins of Money

Tags: Money and Banks

11/17/2009 • Carl Menger

Written in the same year that he testified before the Currency Commission in Austria-Hungary, and published in English in 1892, Carl Menger explains that it is not government edicts that create money but instead the marketplace. Individuals...

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One Is a Crowd

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1952 • Frank Chodorov

This is a treasure: One Is a Crowd. It collects Frank Chodorov’s most profound essays on the topic of individualism, many of which have otherwise been unjustly lost to history. The reader will be riveted by his biographical essay on the meaning...

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Open Borders are an Assault on Private Property

Tags: Immigration, Strategy

02/11/2025 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Whether illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America, or birthright citizenship, or migrants coming from the Middle East and Africa, the subject of immigration is an issue fraught with potentially perilous consequences. So it is especially important to understand it correctly.

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Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers

Tags: Money and Banks, U.S. History

06/15/1964 • Charles Holt Carroll

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...

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Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government

Tags: Introductory, Featured, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

07/20/2012 • Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Politics and thieves, coercion and regulation, fascism and the Fed, centralization and liberty, workers and unions, trade and freedom, free-market achievements and government disasters in American history — this book covers it all! Organized...

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Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment

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

01/11/2016 • Nicolai J. Foss • Peter G. Klein

Now entrepreneurship classes are all the rage. While in real life government strangles businesses large and small everyday, the academic community has finally woken up to what creates wealth—entrepreneurial activity. This is a positive sign. And...

Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment

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

01/11/2016 • Nicolai J. Foss • Peter G. Klein

Now entrepreneurship classes are all the rage. While in real life government strangles businesses large and small everyday, the academic community has finally woken up to what creates wealth—entrepreneurial activity. This is a positive sign. And...

Our Enemy, the State

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate

07/22/2009 • Albert Jay Nock

What does one need to know about politics? In some ways, Nock has summed it all up in this astonishing book, the influence of which has grown every year since its publication. This edition is supplemented by a sweeping introduction by Butler...

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Our Money and the State

Tags: Big Government, Money and Banks, Taxes and Spending

08/25/1917 • Hartley Withers

This book grew out of a course of lectures on Public Finance delivered at the London School of Economics in February and March. The subject had already been dealt with ably and fully by writers who had made a special study of it; but the present...

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Ouroboros or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind

05/31/1926 • Garet Garrett

“One story of us is continuous. It is the story of our struggle to recapture the Garden of Eden, meaning by that a state of existence free from the doom of toil.” Garrett explores the consequences of advancing technology and industrial capacity...

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