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The Ethics of Redistribution

Tags: Introductory
Bertrand de Jouvenel
After many years of being out of print, this classic treatise from the brilliant political philosopher De Jouvenel (1952) provides an answer to a critical question: what is morally wrong with the idea of political management of incomes? Nearly...
The Forging of American Socialism by Howard Quint

The Forging of American Socialism

Tags: U.S. History
Howard Quint
From the author: Today the United States remains the last great citadel of capitalistic democracy. An organized and institutionalized American socialist movement as such, moreover, is virtually a matter of past history. Of course, some...
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The Fortunes of Liberalism

Tags: Intermediate
Friedrich A. Hayek
The Fortunes of Liberalism collects Hayek’s writings on various Austrians such as Wieser, Mises, Schumpeter, Menger, Ropke, Leoni, and Strigl, as well as Mach, Clark, Mitchell, de Jouvenel, and Acton. It includes interpretative essays on the...
The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt

The Foundations of Morality

Henry Hazlitt
Here is Hazlitt’s major philosophical work, in which he grounds a policy of private property and free markets in an ethic of classical utilitarianism, understood in the way Mises understood that term. In writing this book, Hazlitt is reviving an...
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The Free Man's Library by Henry Hazlitt

The Free Man’s Library

Tags: Free Markets
Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt did an incredible thing with this book. He created in a mere 180 pages an anthology of short reviews of 550 books on economics and politics, old and new, from the point of view of an Austro-libertarian. Hazlitt wrote it because he...
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The Freedom Freeway

Tags: Introductory
Leonard E. Read
A freeway is defined as a “multi-lane highway designed to move traffic along smoothly and quickly.” The freedom freeway is strikingly similar: It is a multi-million-Iane politico-economic highway, along which speed goods and services, as well as...
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The Freeman Book by Albert Jay Nock

The Freeman Book

Tags: Media and Culture
Albert Jay Nock
Yes, that’s right: The Freeman. This was the original, as edited by Albert Jay Nock in the early 1920s. It was radical, far-reaching, topical, and bracing in every way. Here we have a collection of what Nock himself considered to be the best of...
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The German Question by Wilhelm Röpke

The German Question

Tags: Big Government, World History
Wilhelm Röpke
The German Question by Wilhelm Röpke is the book that inspired the postwar economic reform in Germany — which Röpke himself did not believe had gone nearly far enough. It came out in 1945 in Switzerland, one year after Mises’s Omnipotent...
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The Global Currency Plot

Tags: Socialism, Strategy
Thorsten Polleit
— from the Summary ... Democratic socialism—the ideology that dominates the world today—aspires to become a world state. The route toward it requires a single world currency to be created. That would undoubtedly create a dystopia. Might this...
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The Gold Standard and Its Future by T.E. Gregory

The Gold Standard and Its Future

Tags: World History
T.E. Gregory
Between 1919 and 1925 a co-operative and successful effort was made to replace the monetary systems of the world upon a:firm foundation, and the international gold standard was thereby restored. In the last few years a variety of circumstances...
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