Books

Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom

Tags: U.S. History

06/01/2001 • John V. Denson

Everyone seems to agree that brutal dictators and despotic rulers deserve scorn and worse. But why have historians been so willing to overlook the despotic actions of the United States’ own presidents? You can scour libraries from one end to the...

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Recent Literature on Interest

09/15/1903 • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

This book by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk is a supplement to his two great books, Capital and Interest and The Positive Theory of Capital. Here he takes on alternatives to the Austrian theory he had previously presented, and thereby clarifies the case...

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Reflections on the Failure of Socialism

Tags: Socialism, World History

03/26/1955 • Max Eastman

Max Eastman during the time from the Bolshevik Revolution through the early 1950s was one of the most famous political writers in America, known also for such literary works as The Enjoyment of Laughter. He began as a radical and, surprising...

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Reply to Dr. Howden on Opportunity Costs

09/09/2016 • Eduard Braun

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) Howden (2016) dedicates a large part of his response to criticizing my way of dealing with and classifying the concept of opportunity costs in my book (Braun, 2014). I must start by...

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Requiem for Marx

07/28/1993 • Yuri N. Maltsev

After the fall of communism, and certainly after this wide-ranging demolition of Marxism by Austrian scholars, who can possibly defend Marxism? Plenty of people, many of them smart otherwise but uneducated in economics. This book is the antidote...

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Resist Not Evil

Tags: Legal System, The Police State

06/23/2011 • Clarence Darrow

This remarkable book is the most comprehensive, sweeping, compelling, and unsettling case ever penned against what is laughingly called the criminal-justice system. It is a classic, devastating at its core, that is made newly available to speak...

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Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

At least since World War I, Austrians have pointed to the relationship between warmongering and the decline of economic liberty. In our times, Robert Higgs is the most articulate and learned upholder of the position that free markets require...

Resurrecting Marx

Tags: Intermediate

01/11/2016 • David Gordon

The collapse of socialism didn’t deter the Marxists, who moved on to invent new rationales for their system. But David Gordon has caught up with them, and used the knife of the Austrian School to cut their theories to pieces. A masterful...

Review of Andrew Carnegie: An Economic Biography by Samuel Bostaph

Tags: Biographies

01/12/2017 • Greg Kaza

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 302–306 Entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) emigrated to the United States from Scotland at age 12, working entry-level jobs (bobbin boy, messenger, telegraph operator) that...

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Review of Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Peter Boettke

01/11/2017 • Nicolai J. Foss

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 288–296 This is a book about the general applicability of economics and how it “affects all walks of life” (from the back-cover blurb). No less than 23 endorsing statements are...

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Review of America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein

Tags: The Fed

09/13/2016 • Patrick Newman

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) “The problem with economic historians,” Murray Rothbard once quipped, “is that half of them are historians who don’t know any economics and the other half are economists who don’t...

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Review of Austrian Economics, Full Collection

05/09/2012 • Murray N. Rothbard

Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with the...

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Review of Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic, and Political Relationships, Second Edition by Peter Bernholz

Tags: Booms and Busts

09/12/2016 • Patrick Newman

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) The recent financial crisis of 2007–2008 generated a debate among economists over whether the leading central banks’ unprecedented monetary intervention would spark a massive...

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Review of The Ontology and Function of Money: The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions

09/13/2016 • Nikolay Gertchev

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) This ambitious new book on the foundations of money and monetary institutions, based on the the author’s Ph.D. disseration defended in 2011 at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in...

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Review: Slouching Towards Utopia

Tags: Book Reviews

07/13/2023 • David Gordon

[ Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong, Basic Books, 2022 viii + 605 pp.] J. Bradford DeLong, who teaches economics at UC Berkeley and was a protégé of Larry Summer’s dislikes Austrian...

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Revisionist Viewpoints: Essays in a Dissident Historical Tradition

05/27/1971 • James J. Martin

From the publisher: Several of the essays gathered together in this volume received worldwide circulation, despite having been published originally in journals of extremely limited circulation. They drew a wide variety of complimentary comments...

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Revolt on the Campus

Tags: U.S. History

05/27/1961 • M. Stanton Evans

From the publisher: Historians may well record the decade of the 1960’s as the era in which conservatism, as a viable political force, finally came into its own. This may appear to be an overly optimistic judgment, since conservatism has been...

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Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit

01/27/1964 • Frank H. Knight

Knight’s groundbreaking study of the role of the entrepreneur in economic life.

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Rollback

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Health, Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Rollback takes on both liberal and conservative conventions and their habits of mind. The objective of the work is dramatically ambitious. Woods writes with relentless precision, like an intellectual surgeon, to convince the reader that the...

Roosevelt’s Road to Russia

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/16/1959 • George Crocker

From the author: Randolph Bourne, one of the critical commentators of the Woodrow Wilson period, once wrote that war is like a wild elephant: it carries the rider where it desires, not where he may desire. Perhaps the historian predilected to...

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