Books

The Gold-Exchange Standard in Operation: 1926–1929

Tags: U.S. History

12/29/2021 • Murray N. Rothbard

[Excerpt from Murray N. Rothbard, A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 2005), part 4, pp. 400–24.] By the end of 1925, Montagu Norman and the British Establishment...

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The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Booms from Colonial Days to the Present Times

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

08/12/1932 • A. M. Sakolski

Those who lived through the huge speculative real estate bubble of the 1990s through 2008 might have imagined that it was unprecedented. Not so. Far from it! This definitive history of land speculation provides a well-documented but hugely...

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The Great Austrian Economists

Tags: Intermediate, Featured, Biographies

11/22/1999 • Randall G. Holcombe

The Austrian tradition began formally with Carl Menger’s 1871 work, Principles of Economics. But its roots stretch back to the late-Scholastic period, when philosophers first began to think systematically about the relationship between human...

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The Great Deformation

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Free Markets, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 • David Stockman

David Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution meant to restore sound money principles to the U.S. government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare. In The Great Deformation, Stockman describes how...

The Great Depression

06/15/1934 • Lionel Robbins

In 1934, when Lionel Robbins wrote The Great Depression, he was a committed advocate of the Austrian School of economics. This would later change, but in this book he brilliantly applies the Austrian theory of the business cycle to explain the...

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The Great Fiction

03/04/2021 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Expanded Second Edition Foreword by Jeff Deist Congratulations! You hold in your hands one of the best collections of essays from one of the most vital and challenging thinkers on the planet. This book is a compendium of sorts, a cross section...

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The Group vs. the Collective

04/18/2018 • Ludwig von Mises

[Excerpt from Epistemological Problems of Economics, chap. 1] The reproach of individualism is commonly leveled against economics on the basis of an alleged irreconcilable conflict between the interests of society and those of the individual...

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The History of Banks

Tags: Money and Banks, World History

07/22/1971 • Richard Hildreth

This book discusses the history of banking beginning in Venice and Genoa. It continues by demonstrating the advantages and necessity of free competition in the business of banking.

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The Imposers and the Imposed Upon

Tags: Decentralization and Secession

11/30/2020 • Jeff Deist

[Excerpt from a talk by the same name delivered at the Mises Institute’s annual Supporters Summit, Jekyll Island, Georgia, October 9, 2020.] I’d like to talk to you this afternoon about two classes of Americans, and it may not be the two classes...

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The Incredible Bread Machine

Tags: Free Markets

10/20/1974 • R. W. Grant

Six young students make their case for the free market with simple, cool and precise reason, combined with youthful humor.

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The Inflation Crisis, and How To Resolve It

Tags: Money and Banks

10/02/1978 • Henry Hazlitt

Prices are rising, as they inevitably must with an expansionary policy, and who is getting the blame? Not the Fed. Commentators claim it’s the weather or foreigners with greedy appetites for goods. It has always been so: when the inflation...

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The Interest Rate and the Length of Production: A Comment

02/28/2017 • David Howden

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 4 (Winter 2016) ABSTRACT: Machaj (2015) does a great service in pointing out a key assumption, heretofore unaddressed, in Filleule (2007) and Hülsmann (2010). Machaj errs, however, in stating that...

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The Irrepressible Rothbard

Tags: Big Government, Free Markets, War and Foreign Policy

06/11/2000 • Murray N. Rothbard • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Summing up the work of libertarian economist and historian Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) and noting its stunning range, philosopher David Gordon once wondered “if there are really three, four, or five geniuses writing under his name.” The...

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The Irrepressible Rothbard

Tags: Big Government, Free Markets, War and Foreign Policy

06/11/2000 • Murray N. Rothbard • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Summing up the work of libertarian economist and historian Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) and noting its stunning range, philosopher David Gordon once wondered “if there are really three, four, or five geniuses writing under his name.” The...

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The Kohler Strike: Union Violence and Administrative Law

01/15/1961 • Sylvester Petro

Are labor unions merely an example of “free association”? Perhaps in some dreamland, but the real history of American labor organizing tells a different story. This 1961 book by labor economist Sylvester Petro tells a story of the destruction of...

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The Labor Policy of the Free Society

07/20/1957 • Sylvester Petro

Professor Petro is one of the giants of the Austrian tradition, and he applied his talents to a particular area of specialization: labor policy. This 1957 book covers three main areas: US labor law and experience, the Austrian theory of labor...

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The Law

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Featured, Legal System

06/15/1850 • Claude Frédéric Bastiat

How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in jail? These are among the most intriguing issues...

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The Law Of Power

01/30/2017 • Friedrich von Wieser

From the author’s introduction: The people of the world stand under the principle of power. The whole social entity is governed by power, this being the highest value peoples aspire to and by which they counted, weighed, and judged. But...

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The Left, the Right, and the State

Tags: Featured, Big Government

02/12/2009 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Lew Rockwell’s new manifesto is a clarion call—creative and thought-provoking on every page—for a principled liberty in our time. There are very few books in which you can open up any page and immediately find a quotable and inspiring passage...

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The Legacy of Max Weber

Tags: Biographies

01/01/1970 • Ludwig M. Lachmann

Ludwig Lachmann took a strong interest in the history of economic thought, particularly as it pertained to methodology. While he would not have claimed to be an Austrian in the Misesian tradition, his writings have influenced Austrians. Here is...

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