Books

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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The Challenge of Liberty

07/18/1956 • Robert Jones

From the author: To every age comes its own challenge, different from the challenge to any other age. Although the elements of the problem of social existence remain always the same, yet as each generation variously emphasizes or neglects...

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The Church and the Market

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

In fact, Thomas Woods’s book on Catholic social teaching surpasses any other book ever published in this genre. Rather than merely recount what has been said, he subjects the corpus to a relentless examination, highlighting contradictions and...

The Cinder Buggy

Tags: Media and Culture

09/18/1923 • Garet Garrett

Garet Garrett’s fiction deals with the social impact of economic transformations. In The Driver, he deals with railroads, while Satan’s Bushel examines agricultural. The Cinder Buggy, his second in the trilogy, is the longest of the three and...

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The Clash of Group Interests and Other Essays

06/15/1978 • Ludwig von Mises

In this essay written in 1945, Mises lays out a theory of social organization in response to the Marxist critique of the free society. He explains that the Marxist view is wrong concerning its claim that there is a clash of group interests in...

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The Coming Aristocracy

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts

05/15/1969 • Leonard E. Read

The motivation that drives man toward excellence comes from within. The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, gives us the clue: “Man is on earth as in an egg. Now, you can’t go on being a good egg forever; you must either hatch or rot.” The oncoming...

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The Common Sense of Political Economy, Volume 1

01/01/1933 • Philip H. Wicksteed

This book is intended primarily as a popular but systematic exposition of the “marginal” theory of Economics.

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The Common Sense of Political Economy, Volume 2

01/02/1933 • Philip H. Wicksteed

This book is intended primarily as a popular but systematic exposition of the “marginal” theory of Economics.

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The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 1

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History

05/04/1945 • Thomas Paine

The writings of Thomas Paine helped shape the American nation and left their imprint on democratic thought all over the world. This two-volume set represents an attempt to make these writings available to both the general reader and the student...

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The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 2

Tags: Biographies, Legal System, U.S. History

05/03/1945 • Thomas Paine

The writings of Thomas Paine helped shape the American nation and left their imprint on democratic thought all over the world. This two-volume set represents an attempt to make these writings available to both the general reader and the student...

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The Concise Guide To Economics

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Featured

06/15/1997 • Jim Cox

To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. The Concise Guide To Economics is a handy, quick reference guide for...

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The Conquest of Poverty

Tags: Free Markets

01/01/1973 • Henry Hazlitt

Long before Charles Murray took on the topic, Henry Hazlitt wrote an outstanding book on poverty that not only provided an empirical examination of the problem but also presented a rigorous theory for understanding the relationship between...

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The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories

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

11/21/2011 • John V. Denson

This book is one of the most significant ever written by Denson. It contains essays that have been turned into major movies and documentaries, and influenced politics in ways no one could have expected. The thesis in brief: the warfare state is...

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The Counter-Revolution of Science

Tags: Introductory

06/01/1952 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Hayek wrote The Counter-Revolution of Science in 1952, several years before Mises wrote his final methodological treatise. It was unavailable for many years, and remains long sought after – rightly so. In fact, Mises adored this book as a...

The Critics of Keynesian Economics

10/04/1995 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt confronted the rise of Keynesianism in his day and put together an intellectual arsenal: the most brilliant economists of the time showing what is wrong with the system, in great detail with great rigor. With excerpts from books...

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The Cultural Background of Ludwig von Mises

Tags: Biographies, War and Foreign Policy, World History

07/31/2019 • Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Writing for Americans about the cultural background of Ludwig von Mises, an eminent former compatriot of mine, poses some difficulties: how to present you with a world radically different from yours, a world far away, which in many ways no...

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The Cure for Poverty

Tags: Poverty

01/05/2019 • Henry Hazlitt

[ Chapter 20 of The Conquest of Poverty , 1996.] The theme of this book is the conquest of poverty, not its “abolition.” Poverty can be alleviated or reduced, and in the Western world in the last two centuries it has been almost miraculously...

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The De Moneta of Nicholas Oresme and English Mint Documents

02/14/1956 • Nicholas Oresme

Nicole Oresme has been called the most brilliant scientist of the 14th century: mathematician, musicologist, physicist, philosopher, and economist. On top of that, he was a Bishop and a theologian. His writings of money bear much in common with...

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The Decline of American Liberalism

Tags: Introductory

06/01/1967 • Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.

One of the most striking facts about American history is how in a country born in old-style liberalism, the meaning of liberalism would not only change but be completely upended: liberalism now means its opposite. In this massively important...

The Decline of the American Republic

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History

05/27/1955 • John T. Flynn

In 1955, John T. Flynn saw what few others journalist did: the welfare-warfare state conspired to bring down American liberty. The New Deal combined with World War Two had fastened leviathan control over a country born in liberty. This early...

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