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Principles of Ethics by Herbert Spencer

Principles of Ethics: Anthology

Herbert Spencer
This two-volume treatise by the classic liberal political theorist and philosopher Herbert Spencer has been considered by many to be his most influential work. The full compilation of its parts lasted almost a half century from the early 1840s...
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Probleme der Wertlehre by Mises

Probleme der Wertlehre

Ludwig von Mises
Mises discusses the origins of the subjective theory of value. As developed by Menger, value theory was in a position to solve problems that the British classical economists could not answer.
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Profits, Interest, and Investment by F. A. Hayek

Profits, Interest, and Investment

Friedrich A. Hayek
The essays collected in this volume are a selection from the various attempts made to develop the outline of a theory of industrial fluctuations contained in two of Hayek’s books on Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle and Prices and Production.
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Progress and Poverty by Henry George

Progress and Poverty

Tags: Money and Banks
Henry George
Henry George seeks to explain why poverty exists notwithstanding widespread advances in technology and even where there is a concentration of great wealth such as in cities.
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Property in a Humane Economy by Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Property in a Humane Economy

Samuel L. Blumenfeld
This volume, dedicated as a memorial to Dr. F. A. “Baldy” Harper, consists of a number of papers delivered at several symposia sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies. The papers were selected principally on the basis of the directness...
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Prosperity and Depression by Gottfried Haberler

Prosperity and Depression

Tags: Booms and Busts
Gottfried Haberler
Are you serious about business cycle theory? In 1937, back when economists thought big and coherent thoughts about the boom-bust cycle, long before mainstream economists began to doubt the existence of theoretical universals, Professor Gottfried...
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Prosperity Through Competition

Prosperity Through Competition

Tags: Free Markets
Ludwig Erhard
In postwar Germany, one great statesman led the fight for freedom: Ludwig Erhard. He was deeply influenced by Wilhelm Röpke, and drew heavily on the case for free markets made by Ludwig von Mises. He received his PhD from Franz Oppenheimer, the...
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Pseudo-Science and Historical Understanding

Ludwig von Mises
In the English language, the word “science” is usually applied only to the natural sciences. There is no doubt that there are fundamental differences between the natural sciences and the science of human action, sometimes called social science...
Psychiatry and Responsibility by Helmut Schoeck and James W. Wiggins

Psychiatry and Responsibility

Helmut Schoeck James W. Wiggins
The authors who joined the discussions from which this volume resulted were invited on the basis of their earlier work, which had shown an awareness of the consequences of modern psychiatry for the character, values, and future form of our...
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Psychiatry and Responsibility by Helmut Schoeck and James W. Wiggins

Psychiatry and Responsibility

Helmut Schoeck James W. Wiggins
The authors who joined the discussions from which this volume resulted were invited on the basis of their earlier work, which had shown an awareness of the consequences of modern psychiatry for the character, values, and future form of our...
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fortune telling

Psychology vs. Praxeology

Jörg Guido Hülsmann
(Excerpt from chapter 17 of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism , pp. 765–67.) Mises’s exposition of economic science differed decisively from all modern authors in that it drew a sharp line between praxeology and psychology. This has remained...