Books

The Limits of Economics

03/29/1937 • Oskar Morgenstern

From the author: The prevailing lack of understanding as to the significance of economics for practical economic life, and its usefulness for purposes of economic policy, makes it apparent that there are many unsettled problems connected with...

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The Love of Liberty

Tags: Introductory

10/15/1975 • Leonard E. Read

The love of liberty and the love of knowledge go hand-in-hand. As people can be free only when self-responsible and self-responsible only when free, so there can be no liberty without knowledge and no knowledge without liberty. These virtues are...

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The Mainspring of Human Progress

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

03/15/1953 • Henry Grady Weaver

What has capitalism contributed to civilization? It made it. And nowhere has it thrived so beautifully as in America, the country that threw off the static old world to make a new one rooted in progress and individualism. With incredible...

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The Man versus the State

06/15/1961 • Herbert Spencer

Henry Hazlitt says that this book is “One of the most powerful and influential arguments for limited government, laissez faire and individualism ever written.” Spencer played a huge role in the history of ideas, one that contemporary...

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The Market for Liberty

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate

10/05/1970 • Morris and Linda Tannehill

Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and labored discipline. But other classics are written in a white heat during the moment of discovery, with prose that shines forth like the sun pouring into the window of a...

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The Meaning of Ludwig von Mises

Tags: Biographies

08/10/1993 • Jeffrey M. Herbener

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way for himself if society is sweeping towards de­struction. Therefore everyone, in his own interests...

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The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large

Tags: Legal System, World History

06/15/1943 • Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

This exceedingly rare book is by one of the great men of the 20th century. Written soon after his immigration to the United States, he signed the book “Francis Stuart Campbell” because he was a refugee from Austria and didn’t want to endanger...

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The Merchants of Death

Tags: War and Foreign Policy, World History

06/15/1934 • H.C. Engelbrecht • F. C. Hanighen

Here is the archetype of all post–World War I revisionism of a particular variety: the hunt for the people who made the big bucks off the killing machine. The Merchants of Death was, in many ways, the manifesto of a generation of people who...

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The Merchants of Death

Tags: War and Foreign Policy, World History

06/15/1934 • H.C. Engelbrecht • F. C. Hanighen

Here is the archetype of all post–World War I revisionism of a particular variety: the hunt for the people who made the big bucks off the killing machine. The Merchants of Death was, in many ways, the manifesto of a generation of people who...

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The Methodology of the Austrian School Economists

Tags: Introductory

01/01/1977 • Lawrence H. White

Today, the tradition of Austrian economics is enjoying a resurgence. Austrian economists are engaged in theoretical and applied research on a wide array of topics. What unifies this school of thought—what might be called its theme—is the...

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The Middle of the Road Leads to Socialism

Tags: Socialism

01/11/2018 • Ludwig von Mises

The fundamental dogma of all brands of socialism and communism is that the market economy or capitalism is a system that hurts the vital interests of the immense majority of people for the sole benefit of a small minority of rugged...

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The Mises Reader

12/20/2016 • Shawn Ritenour

Shawn Ritenour and Tom Woods discuss The Mises Reader here . The Mises Reader Unabridged edition can be found here. From the Introduction by Shawn Ritenour ... During my time in college, while I was still working through Human Action, I sought...

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The Mises Reader Unabridged

12/22/2016 • Shawn Ritenour

The Mises Reader can be found here. From the Introduction by Shawn Ritenour ... During my time in college, while I was still working through Human Action, I sought out other more accessible books by Mises. This was years before the advent of the...

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The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the U.S. Constitution

02/08/1982 • Edwin Vieira, Jr.

The chief mechanism of inflation today is the ability of the Federal Reserve System to generate an endless stream of paper currency that: (i) is purportedly legal tender for all debts, public and private: and (ii) is not redeemable in gold...

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The Monetary Sin of the West

Tags: Global Economy, Money and Banks, U.S. History

06/15/1972 • Jacques Rueff

The problem of Western currency is more topical than ever. The international monetary system has been patched up by many expedients that were intended to extend its assured life. It cannot endure very long in the present state. Rueff looks at...

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The Moral Case for the Free Market Economy

Tags: Free Markets

06/15/1988 • Tibor R. Machan

Machan argues that it is inappropriate to regard the mechanistic viewpoint as the scientific way of looking at human life. Machan proposes that we reject this as our model of proper science which is, after all, extrapolated from one of the...

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The Morality of Fiat Money

Tags: Free Markets, Socialism

01/03/2019 • Jörg Guido Hülsmann

[ Excerpted from chapter 13 of Guido Hülsmann’s The Ethics of Money Production (2008).] 8. Some Spiritual Casualties of Fiat Inflation Fiat inflation constantly reduces the purchasing power of money. To some extent, it is possible for people to...

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The Mystery of Banking

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Featured

11/28/1983 • Murray N. Rothbard

Readers of The Mystery of Banking will find that money and banking are, contrary to what the book’s title might suggest, no longer a mystery to them. Textbooks on money and banking are often prolix, dull, and confusing, but Murray Rothbard...

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The Myth of a Guilty Nation

Tags: War and Foreign Policy, World History

08/11/1922 • Albert Jay Nock

This was Albert Jay Nock’s first great anti-war book, a cause he backed his entire life as an essential component of a libertarian outlook. The book came out in 1922 and has been in very low circulation ever since. The narrative has incredible...

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The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

10/15/2003 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The libertarian idea of society without a state appeals to many people, but, however enticing the idea, it is often dismissed as utopian. How could an anarchist society defend itself against large, centralized states? Defense, it has been...

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