Books

The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Tags: World History

01/01/1553 • Étienne de la Boétie

States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant—when consent is withdrawn. This is the thesis of this thrilling book. Murray Rothbard writes a classic introduction to one of the great political essays in the history...

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The Politics of Unemployment

Tags: Introductory

01/11/2016 • Hans F. Sennholz

The modern age of economic intervention began under the pretense of helping workers. Professor Sennholz demolishes the entire edifice that gave rise to this movement. We were told that workers must be organized into unions. They must have job...

The Positive Theory of Capital

09/27/1889 • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

This is the second book in the series of Böhm-Bawerk translations by Scottish economist William Smart, originally published in 1891. It is, as the title suggests, the positive theory of capital. It begins with full front matter by Smart himself...

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The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America

01/11/2016 • Robert A. Nisbet

Robert Nisbet argues here that conservatism has become as corrupt as liberalism in its celebration of militarism and war and its unrelenting call for the state to monitor and regulate private life. Far from sustaining the culture, this approach...

The Principles of Economics, With Applications to Practical Problems

06/15/1905 • Frank A. Fetter

Frank Fetter’s 1904 treatise, Principles of Economics, virtually impossible to find prior to this online edition, constructed a general theory of economics in the Austrian tradition that went unsurpassed until Ludwig von Mises’s treatise of 1940...

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The Private Production of Defense

Tags: Featured, War and Foreign Policy

12/01/1998 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans Hoppe takes on the most difficult subject in economic and political theory: the provision of security. He argues that the service is better provided by free markets than government, while addressing a hundred counter-arguments. Here we have...

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The Privatization of Roads and Highways

Tags: Free Markets

04/08/2009 • Walter Block

Purchase the audiobook version at Audible.com The Mises Institute is pleased to introduce Walter Block’s remarkable new treatise on private roads, a 494-page book that will cause you to rethink the whole of the way modern transportation networks...

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The Production of Security

Tags: Legal System

02/15/1849 • Gustave de Molinari

The introduction to this stunning work is by Murray Rothbard, who calls French radical Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) the great innovator in the market provision of security. Indeed, he might be regarded as the first proponent of what is called...

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The Progressive Era

11/09/2017 • Murray N. Rothbard

Progressivism brought the triumph of institutionalized racism, the disfranchising of blacks in the South, the cutting off of immigration, the building up of trade unions by the federal government into a tripartite of big government, big business...

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The Pure Theory of Capital

Tags: Booms and Busts

11/27/1941 • Friedrich A. Hayek

The greatest failing of non-Austrian theories of macroeconomics, it’s been said, is that they lack a robust theory of capital. F.A. Hayek sought to fill out the theory of the business cycle with an impenetrable one, and the result was this...

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The Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest

12/16/2011 • Jeffrey M. Herbener

It’s about time. Really! An entire book fleshing out the pure time-preference theory of interest has finally been assembled. The present crop of Keynesians play with interest rates believing they can create prosperity without a sound theoretical...

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The Quotable Mises

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Free Markets

07/27/2007 • Mark Thornton

Ludwig von Mises was the greatest economist of the twentieth century, but often readers are reluctant to tackle his major works. They fear that they will be unable to follow that abstract and relentless theoretical progression of, e.g., Human...

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The Rate of Interest: Its Nature, Determination, and Relation to Economic Phenomena

03/11/1907 • Irving Fisher

The problem of interest has engaged the attention of writers for two thousand years, and of economists since economics began. And yet, with the exception of what has been accomplished by Rae, Bohm-Bawerk, Landry, and some others, very little...

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The Real Crash: America’s Coming Bankruptcy—How to Save Yourself and Your Country

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, Global Economy, Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 • Peter Schiff

In The Real Crash, New York Times bestselling author Peter D. Schiff argues that America is enjoying a government-inflated bubble, one that reality will explode . . . with disastrous consequences for the economy and for each of us. Schiff...

The Real Lincoln

Tags: Introductory, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Thomas J. DiLorenzo

In this book, Thomas DiLorenzo calls for a complete rethinking of a central icon of American historiography. He looks at the actions and legacy of Abe Lincoln from an economics point of view to show that Lincoln’s main interest was not in...

The Regulated Consumer

06/15/1971 • Mary Bennett Peterson

At the outset of the Naderite consumer movement, the Austrians had a vigorous response in this book by Mary Bennett Peterson. She discusses whether and to what extent product, safety, labor, communications, and other regulation helps or hinders...

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The Return to Laisser Faire

Tags: Big Government

06/05/1929 • Sir Ernest Benn

From the author: In this book my endeavor will be to do two things for the benefit of students of politics and citizenship. I shall set myself out to discredit Socialism, but that is the least worthy and the least inspiring of my aims. I shall...

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The Return to Protection

Tags: Big Government, Corporate Welfare

04/13/1904 • William Smart

William Smart was the outstanding Austrian in England during his generation, a leading advocate of the marginalist school. But he was more than that: he was a dedicated champion of laissez-faire trade policy in the tradition of Cobden and Bright...

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The Revolution: A Manifesto

Tags: Introductory, U.S. History

04/30/2008 • Ron Paul

Ron Paul wrote this book in the midst of his 2007-2008 educational campaign for the Republican nomination. It is a response to the demand from so many to understand the political and economic philosophy that led to his campaign, which was a...

The Rise and Fall of Society

06/15/1959 • Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov adored the work of Albert Jay Nock, particularly Nock’s writings on the State. And so Chodorov set out to do something implausible: to rework the Nock book in his own style. Rothbard wrote of this book: “Frank’s final flowering...

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