Books

The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue

Tags: Media and Culture

06/15/1933 • Henry Hazlitt

When Henry Hazlitt published this exceedingly rare book, he was finishing up a three-year position at The Nation as literary critic, and preparing to accept the position as H.L. Mencken’s successor at American Mercury. He was struggling with...

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The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

Tags: Free Markets, Media and Culture

06/15/1956 • Ludwig von Mises

In 1954, after a lifetime of serious theoretical work in economic science, Mises turned his attention to one of the great puzzles of all time: discovering why the intellectuals hate capitalism. The result is this socio-psycho-cultural analysis...

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The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions

Tags: Austrian Economics, Intermediate, Featured

02/24/2011 • Eugen-Maria Schulak • Herbert Unterköfler

The Austrian School is in the news as never before. It is discussed on business pages, academic journals, and speeches by public figures. At long last, there is a brilliant and engaging guide to the history, ideas, and institutions of the...

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The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions

Tags: Austrian Economics, Intermediate, Featured

02/24/2011 • Eugen-Maria Schulak • Herbert Unterköfler

The Austrian School is in the news as never before. It is discussed on business pages, academic journals, and speeches by public figures. At long last, there is a brilliant and engaging guide to the history, ideas, and institutions of the...

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The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks

06/15/1978 • Richard M. Ebeling

Booms and busts are not endemic to the free market, argues the Austrian theory of the business cycle, but come about through manipulation of money and credit by central banks. In this monograph, Austrian giants explain and defend the theory...

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The Bastiat Collection

03/17/2011 • Claude Frédéric Bastiat

Claude Frédéric Bastiat was an economist and publicist of breathtaking intellectual energy and massive historical influence. He was born in Bayonne, France on June 29th , 1801. After the middle-class Revolution of 1830, Bastiat became...

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The Befuddling World of the Antieconomist

Tags: Book Reviews, Socialism

12/02/2021 • David Gordon

Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016–2020 By Thomas Piketty Yale University Press, 2021 352 pages Thomas Piketty has written a useful book. Readers need no longer plough their way through his vast Capital in the Twenty-First...

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The Betrayal of the American Right

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

01/01/1979 • Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard identifies a movement he calls the “Old Right.” This was a libertarian movement that included Albert Jay Nock, H.L. Mencken, and John T. Flynn. It was in part a reaction to American entry into World War I, and this group joined with...

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The Blue Wound

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

01/01/1921 • Garet Garrett

Who started World War One? That is the all-encompassing question that Garet Garrett asks in this classic book from 1921. The amazing thing about this book — apart from its insightfulness into what or who really started World War One, and Garrett...

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The Book of Journeyman: Essays from the New Freeman

Tags: Media and Culture, War and Foreign Policy

06/15/1930 • Albert Jay Nock

The Book of Journeyman is a collection of Nock’s essays originally written for The New Freeman. It is quintessential Nock. For example, on “Lawyer’s Law” (pp. 9-10) he quips: The Russians are the best off of almost any people in the world in one...

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The Book of Peace

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

03/31/1845 • George C. Beckwith

Originally published in 1845, this is a collection of sixty-four essays by a variety of authors and from a wide range of viewpoints on the subjects of war and peace. According to the preface, “There has been, since the time of the gifted Erasmus...

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The Bubble that Broke the World

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/01/1932 • Garet Garrett

What caused the stock-market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed? This book blows away the conventional interpretations, not only in its contents but that the book exists at all. The Bubble that Broke the World was written in...

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The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur: Essays on Organizations and Markets

Tags: The Entrepreneur

05/05/2010 • Peter G. Klein

Entrepreneurship is a hot topic in academic, managerial, and policy circles. Yet researchers and policymakers tend to define entrepreneurship narrowly as business start-ups, and entrepreneurs as young dreamers with a particular personality. In...

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The Case Against the Fed

Tags: Featured, Homeschool Resource, Introductory, The Fed, Money and Banks

01/01/1994 • Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard provides a succinct account of the origins of money, showing how money must originate from a commodity. Banking originated from goldsmiths, who issued warehouse receipts for gold deposited with them. From this a fractional reserve...

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The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Money and Banks

01/01/1962 • Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard shows how money must originate from a commodity. In an ideal system, a dollar would be a unit of weight, and paper money would operate strictly as warehouse receipts for the stock of the monetary metal. There would be no fractional...

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The Case for Capitalism

Tags: Booms and Busts

08/25/1920 • Hartley Withers

From the author: To make a better world we want better men and women. No reform of laws and institutions and economic systems will bring it unless it produces them. Institutions and systems that turn men and women into machines working under the...

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The Case for Discrimination

01/05/2011 • Walter Block

Walter Block has been writing on the economics of discrimination — and in defense of discrimination, rightly understood — for more than 30 years. This large hardcover collects nearly all of this writing to present a radical alternative to the...

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The Case for Gold

Tags: Introductory

06/15/1982 • Ron Paul

Here is the revolutionary book on monetary reform — brilliant, compelling, clear, with specific reforms to do now — in an edition for global distribution. Had the U.S. followed the recommendations of this wonderful report when it came out in...

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The Case for Legalizing Capitalism

Tags: Intermediate, Free Markets

07/14/2010 • Kel Kelly

What’s the “American system” of economics? Most people would say it is capitalism, which thereby deserves all fault when anything goes wrong. Well, Kel Kelly responds to this myth in this fast-paced and darn-near comprehensive treatment of the...

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The Causes of the Economic Crisis, and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression

Tags: Booms and Busts

11/06/2006 • Ludwig von Mises

Stimulus or laissez-faire? That’s the essential debate about what to about financial crisis in our time. It was the same in the 1930s. In this world before and after the Great Depression, there was a lone voice for sanity and freedom: Ludwig von...

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