Introductory

Defending the Undefendable 2

Tags: Introductory

01/11/2016 • Walter Block

Walter Block has assembled thirty chapters defending behavior that is probably offensive to most Americans, such as dwarf tossing and stereotyping, and many that are downright illegal, such as dueling and smuggling. Plus, he’s provided us with...

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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...

Notes and Recollections: With the Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics

Tags: Introductory, Biographies

01/11/2016 • Ludwig von Mises

Written between 1940 and 1941, shortly after he arrived in the United States, Notes and Recollections is in effect Mises’s pre-1940 intellectual autobiography. This work reveals how Mises developed his theories, wrote his books, lectured, and...

The Politics of Unemployment

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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...

Henry Hazlitt: A Giant of Liberty

Tags: Introductory, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Henry Hazlitt

This bibliography contains more than 6,000 entries, with books annotated by Murray N. Rothbard, in a near-complete listing of articles by this Austrian journalist. It identifies for the first time unsigned editorials in the New York Times (1934...

Democracy: The God That Failed

Tags: Introductory, World History

01/11/2016 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

This sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than...

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Crisis and Leviathan

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, World History

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

This seminal treatise in the history of ideas demonstrates what has come to be known as the Higgs thesis: that government grows in periods of crisis, for example, war and depression. He demonstrates this with a detailed look at twentieth century...

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...

Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation

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

01/11/2016 • Mark Thornton • Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.

What caused the war? Why did the Union defeat the Confederacy? What were the consequences of the War? The premise of the book is that historians have a comparative advantage in describing such events, but economists have the tools to help...

Against Leviathan

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

What is fundamentally wrong with government today? In Against Leviathan, economist and historian, Robert Higgs, offers an unflinching critical analysis of government power in all its aspects: welfare, warfare, regulation, spying, and its...