Books

Wages and Capital

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05/20/2016 • F.W. Taussig

Taussig’s Introduction This book, written in 1892–1895 and published in 1896, has long been out of print. The London School of Economics (University of London) now honors me by undertaking a reprint in its series of scarce books and monographs...

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Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth

Tags: Media and Culture, Money and Banks, U.S. Economy

11/18/2010 • Douglas French

Housing, a central priority for government policy for many decades, collapsed in 2008; even today, millions of homes are under water. This poses many economic and ethical issues. This elegant and fact-filled book by Doug French examines the...

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Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

Tags: The Fed, Money and Banks, War and Foreign Policy

07/20/1984 • Murray N. Rothbard

This fiery monograph shows a side of Murray Rothbard not seen in his theoretical treatise: his ability to employ “power elite” analysis to understand the relationship between money, power, and war. Rather than allow the left to dominate this...

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War and Democracy

Tags: Introductory, War and Foreign Policy, World History

01/11/2016 • Paul Gottfried

War and Democracy presents a selection of essays and reviews by Paul Gottfried written from 1975 to the present. They cover a variety of topics, both historical and contemporary, ranging from Oswald Spengler and the Frankfurt School to the...

War and the Money Machine: Concealing the Costs of War beneath the Veil of Inflation

Tags: Inflation, War and Foreign Policy

08/21/2021 • Joseph T. Salerno

In every great war monetary calculation was disrupted by inflation. … The economic behavior of the belligerents was thereby led astray; the true consequences of the war were removed from their view. One can say without exaggeration that...

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War Collectivism

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History

05/16/2012 • Murray N. Rothbard

More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a “war collectivism,” a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interest through the instrumentality of the central...

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War, Christianity, and the State

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Laurence M. Vance

These seventy-six essays, organized under the headings of Christianity and War, Christianity and the Military, Christianity and the Warfare State, and Christianity and Torture, have one underlying theme: the relation of Christianity to war, the...

War, Empire, and the Military

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Taxes and Spending, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Laurence M. Vance

With War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Police, Laurence Vance, a relentless critic of the state and its wars, has updated his already extensive writings on war and empire to include new material in this...

Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers

Tags: Big Government, Strategy

11/14/2016 • Walter Block • Peter Lothian Nelson

Water covers some 75 percent of the earth’s surface, while land covers 25 percent, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1 percent of world GDP, the latter 99 percent plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are...

Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers

Tags: Big Government, Strategy

11/14/2016 • Walter Block • Peter Lothian Nelson

Water covers some 75 percent of the earth’s surface, while land covers 25 percent, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1 percent of world GDP, the latter 99 percent plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are...

We

Tags: Media and Culture

08/01/1983 • Yevgeny Zamyatin

“[Zamyatin’s] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism — human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself — makes [We] superior to Huxley’s [Brave New World].” —George Orwell An inspiration for George Orwell’s 1984 and a precursor...

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We Who Dared to Say No to War

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

09/09/2008 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

We Who Dared to Say No to War uncovers some of the forgotten but compelling body of work from the American antiwar tradition speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, political cartoons, and more - from people throughout our history who have...

Wealth: A Brief Explanation of the Causes of Economic Welfare

Tags: Money and Banks

06/15/1948 • Edwin Cannan

Wealth has so generally been identified with the subject-matter of economics that we need not hesitate to treat the question, “What is wealth?” as exactly the same question as “What is it most convenient to take as the subject-matter of...

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What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Tags: Featured, Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Mises U Required Readings, Money and Banks

06/15/1963 • Murray N. Rothbard

Click here to get your free copy of What Has Government Done To Our Money? When this gem first appeared in 1963, it took the form of a small paperback designed for mass distribution. Innumerable economists, investors, commentators, and authors...

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What Must Be Done

Tags: Big Government, The Police State

06/24/2009 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

How should anarcho-capitalists engage the modern state? Hans-Hermann Hoppe dissects the nature of the modern democratic state and suggests strategies for enacting a bottom-up libertarian revolution in ideology and civil government. Hoppe begins...

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What Social Classes Owe Each Other

06/27/1883 • William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a sociologist at Yale University, a historian of American banking, and great expositor of classical liberalism. Yes, this is the man often dismissed today as an outmoded “social Darwinist” — and this book...

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What We Know and What We Don’t Know about the Firm

Tags: The Entrepreneur

03/08/2019 • Per Bylund

[This is a chapter from The Problem of Production: A New Theory of the Firm.] This book is about what is generally referred to as the ‘firm’, a phenomenon in the market that appears obvious but that remains difficult to explain. While there is a...

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What You Should Know About Inflation

Tags: Money and Banks

07/01/1964 • Henry Hazlitt

The book’s title— What You Should Know About Inflation—only hints at the extent of the issues that Hazlitt addresses. He presents the Austrian theory of money in the clearest possible terms, and contrasts it with the fallacies of government...

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Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, Money and Banks, World History

01/08/2016 • Richard J. Maybury

It’s true that economic theory is a subject for adults — you don’t want to assign Human Action to an 11-year old — but kids can be taught plenty too. They don’t need details about epistemology or exchange rates. But by enticing them into the...

When Mainstream Economics Was Wrong, Mark Thornton Was Right

Tags: Booms and Busts

08/11/2018 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

[ Foreword to Mark Thornton’s new book The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 2018).] In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the economics...

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