Books

The Development of Economics

Tags: World History

01/01/1933 • William A Scott

Scott groups the topics to be studied around the development of the Classical Political Economy of England by considering first, the background of that development in the economic life and thought of the preceding period; second, the development...

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The Discovery of Freedom

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate, Legal System

07/10/1943 • Rose Wilder Lane

With new forewords by Roger Lea MacBride and Hans F. Sennholz What an American original was Rose Wilder Lane! What a treasure! She lived from 1886 until 1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent collaborator on...

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The Driver

Tags: Media and Culture

09/01/1922 • Garet Garrett

Here is a treasure in the history of the pro-capitalist novel. Garet Garrett, author of The People’s Pottage, tells the story of an upstart Wall Street speculator financier, Henry Galt, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as...

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The Economic Causes of War

Tags: Global Economy, War and Foreign Policy

08/10/1968 • Lionel Robbins

Robbins’ analysis here presented has still a place in the rational discussion of the possible causes of war. It fits very well the period of history in regard to which the Marxian theories here discussed were originally elaborated.

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The Economic Mind in American Civilization: 1606-1865, Volume One

Tags: World History

10/14/1966 • Joseph Dorfman

In America as elsewhere, economic thought is an integral part of culture. Its richness and the reach of its relevance can be appreciated fully only when it is treated in its natural habitat of practical affairs and intellectual endeavor. It...

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The Economic Mind in American Civilization: 1606-1865, Volume Two

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

10/14/1966 • Joseph Dorfman

This detailed history of American economic thought from colonial times to 1933 is based on extensive, systematic research into not only printed publications but also elusive archival material including papers and letters. In many instances...

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The Economics and Ethics of Frederick Nymeyer

01/10/2017 • Timothy D. Terrell

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 267–287 ABSTRACT: Frederick Nymeyer (1897–1981) was a Chicago businessman who supported Austrian scholarship through his publication and marketing of work by Mises and Böhm-Bawerk...

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The Economics and Ethics of Private Property

Tags: Featured

07/20/1993 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Austrian economics puts private property at the center of its analysis of value, price, and exchange. Respect for private property is also implied by the fundamental moral principle, “Do not steal.” Hans-Hermann Hoppe has devoted his life’s work...

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The Economics of Alfred Marshall

Tags: Biographies

06/07/1965 • H. J. Davenport

For many years in classroom and seminar Professor Davenport’s primary concern was with criticism and constructive amendment of the doctrinal content of the classical and neo-classical economics. His attitude toward systematic economic theory was...

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The Economics of Enterprise

06/16/1913 • H. J. Davenport

From the author: In questions of economic theory the writer conceives himself, as among his colleagues of the craft, to be in essentials rather a conservative than an innovator. The Socialists, indeed — with whom he disclaims all theoretical...

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The Economics of Illusion

Tags: Booms and Busts

02/15/1949 • L. Albert Hahn

L. Albert Hahn was one of the most highly regarded economists and bankers in Germany before World War II, but he was unknown in the United States until this translation of The Economics of Illusion appeared in 1949. He immigrated to the United...

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The Economics of Inflation: A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany

Tags: Global Economy

04/03/1931 • Costantino Bresciani-Turroni

“This is the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the great German inflation from 1914 to 1923.” —Henry Hazlitt As an Austrian study of hyperinflation, this study has never been surpassed. The same is true of the detailed examination...

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The Economics of Liberty

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Free Markets

08/30/1990 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

This collection of short, entertaining, and educational articles exposes how government interference with the economy violates individual liberty, leads to inefficiencies, and rewards special interests. This collection appeared in 1991 and it...

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The Economics of Prohibition

Tags: Featured, Health, The Police State

12/01/1991 • Mark Thornton

It is conventional wisdom that alcohol prohibition failed, but the economic reasons for this failure have never been as extensively detailed or analyzed as they are in this study by Mark Thornton. The lessons he draws apply not only to the...

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The Economics of Sellers’ Competition

10/20/1952 • Fritz Machlup

This book provides a solid foundation analytical economic reasoning, and is intended to be a companion volume with The Political Economy of Monopoly.

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The Economics of the Colour Bar

Tags: The Police State, World History

04/25/1964 • William H. Hutt

Who were the original and most passionate opponents of apartheid in South Africa? The classical liberals, and this book was their most important weapon against the problem of racial injustice. William H. Hutt, an Austro-classical economist in...

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The Enterprise of Law: Justice without the State

Tags: Intermediate, Legal System

06/01/1990 • Bruce L. Benson

Benson argues that public dissatisfaction with legal institutions is as prevalent as public disgust with many public institutions. That’s hardly surprising. They are funded through taxes, run by bureaucracies, are famously inefficient, lack the...

The Essential Rothbard

Tags: Introductory, Biographies

02/26/2007 • David Gordon

Here is the book for the Age of Rothbard, precisely the primer that is needed at a time when his influence—as the most radical and compelling intellectual force in the second half of the 20th century—is higher than during any time during his...

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The Ethics of Liberty

Tags: Intermediate, Big Government

07/20/2005 • Murray N. Rothbard

Murray Rothbard’s greatest contribution to the politics of freedom is back in print. Following up on Mises’s demonstration that a society without private property degenerates into economic chaos, Rothbard shows that every interference with...

The Ethics of Money Production

10/22/2008 • Jörg Guido Hülsmann

This pioneering work by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, professor of economics at the University of Angers in France and the author of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, is the first full study of a critically important issue today: the ethics of money...

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