Books

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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The New Argument in Economics

Tags: Big Government

06/15/1963 • Helmut Schoeck

From the author: As the history of social theories shows, the pleaders and engineers of “social change” usually need a dichotomy, a “polarization” of social reality. Once it was proletariat and bourgeoisie, imperialist and colonial people, rural...

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The New Deal in Old Rome

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

05/15/1939 • H. J. Haskell

What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. This book was a smash hit when it first came out in 1939, and yet it went out of print, and hasn’t been in print in half a century. H.J. Haskell was a journalist...

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The New Despotism

Tags: Big Government

06/15/1976 • Robert A. Nisbet

Nothing seems to have mattered more to such minds as Montesquieu, Turgot, and Burke in Europe and to Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin in the United States than the expansion of freedom in the day-to-day existence of human beings, irrespective of...

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The Next Generation of Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Joseph T. Salerno

Tags: Intermediate

03/14/2015 • Per Bylund • David Howden

The Next Generation of Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor Joseph T. Salerno is a celebratory volume honoring the work of a respected and beloved teacher. It signifies a flourishing career of significant achievement, and also the gratitude and...

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The Next Generation of Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Joseph T. Salerno

Tags: Intermediate

03/14/2015 • Per Bylund • David Howden

The Next Generation of Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor Joseph T. Salerno is a celebratory volume honoring the work of a respected and beloved teacher. It signifies a flourishing career of significant achievement, and also the gratitude and...

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The Origins of the Federal Reserve

Tags: Featured, Homeschool Resource, Intermediate, The Fed, Money and Banks, U.S. History

12/26/2022 • Murray N. Rothbard

Where did this thing called the Fed come from? Murray Rothbard has the answer here — in phenomenal detail that will make your head spin. In one extended essay, one that reads like a detective story, he has put together the most comprehensive and...

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The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies

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

07/20/1962 • Murray N. Rothbard

The panic of 1819 was America’s first great economic crisis. And this is Murray Rothbard’s masterful account, the first full scholarly book on the topic and still the most definitive. It was his dissertation, published in 1962 but nearly...

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The Path of Duty

09/15/1982 • Leonard E. Read

“Our grand business,” wrote Thomas Carlyle, “is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” Thus did he warn us against vainly trying to foretell the future. So, let us do what lies clearly at hand-right now...

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The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics

Tags: Mises U Required Readings, Introductory

06/17/1994 • David Gordon

The Austrian School of economics arose in opposition to the German Historical School; and Carl Menger developed his methodological views in combat with the rival group. Gordon discusses the philosophical doctrines of the Historical School, and...

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The Philosophy of Ownership

01/01/1966 • Robert LeFevre

The significance of property ownership has rarely been fully appreciated, writes Robert LeFevre. He proceeds to present the entire libertarian case for private ownership, with his characteristic clarity of exposition. He makes what is a...

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The Place of Economics in Learning

Tags: Intermediate, Education

09/14/1949 • Ludwig von Mises

“The Place of Economics in Learning” is a chapter from Human Action . It provides an excellent overview of the Misesian worldview concerning economics. It touches on enough points — methodologically, educationally, politically — to invite and...

The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton

Tags: Biographies, World History

09/15/1970 • Ralph Raico

Forty years ago, historian Ralph Raico completed his dissertation under the direction of F.A. Hayek at the University of Chicago. Its title masks its power and importance: The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville...

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The Political Economy of Juan De Mariana

04/19/1928 • John Laures, S.J.

Juan de Mariana (1536-1624), a major thinker of the Spanish renaissance, was a founder of economic science. This study of his writings and legacy appeared in 1928 and has not been reprinted until now. Prof. Fr. Laures explores his thinking on...

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The Political Economy of Monopoly

10/21/1952 • Fritz Machlup

Intended as a textbook, this is Fritz Machlup’s sophisticated — yet readily comprehensible — introduction to the subject at hand.

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The Political Economy of William Graham Sumner: A Study in the History of Free-Enterprise Ideas

Tags: Biographies, Free Markets

07/20/1966 • Dominick Armentano

From the author: The following is a study in the history of free enterprise ideas. Specifically it presents the political economy of William Graham Sumner, highlighting the ideas and analysis that mark his contribution to economic thought, and...

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History

Tags: Introductory, Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

12/01/2004 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

The winners write the history, and the winning states especially so. Thomas Woods, however, sets out to write a primer on American history from a different point of view, one that doesn’t glorify centralization and intervention. The result is...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism

Tags: Introductory, Education, Free Markets, U.S. Economy

04/09/2007 • Robert P. Murphy

The anti-capitalists are still with us, and how. Robert Murphy has decided to give them an in-your-face economics education that they won’t forget — ever. His approach comes from years of teaching undergraduates and dealing with the most common...

The Politicization of Society

Tags: Introductory

09/01/1977 • Kenneth S. Templeton, Jr.

The most famous essay in this great collection is Murray Rothbard’s “Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor”--perhaps the best explanation of the division of labor ever written. This attack also shows how statism represents a...