Introductory

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Depression, War, and Cold War

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

06/22/2006 Robert Higgs

If you have ever wondered how much of the official story of the last fifty years is correct, Higgs makes it clear: your worst suspicions are correct. The official statistics are little more than fiction. The level of corruption in the warfare...

Man, Economy, and State Study Guide by Robert Murphy

Study Guide to Man, Economy, and State

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Education

06/15/2006 Robert P. Murphy

The prose of Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard is as clear as a bell. But, its sheer size (1441 pages!) is intimidating. After all, Rothbard systematically covers the whole of economic science. Fortunately, the young and brilliant...

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What is the Free Market?

Tags: Private Property, Free Markets

01/01/2006 Murray N. Rothbard

The free market and the free price system make goods from around the world available to consumers. The free market also gives the largest possible scope to entrepreneurs, who risk capital to allocate resources so as to satisfy the future desires of the mass of consumers as efficiently as possible.

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...

Ex America: The 50th Anniversary of the People’s Pottage

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

07/01/2004 Garet Garrett

This book is the darkest of Garrett’s works, but he tells the full truth about the disaster of the New Deal. It contains three eloquent and long essays: “The Revolution Was,” which explains how the revolution came to the U.S. “within the form”;...

The Free Market and Its Enemies by Mises

The Free Market and Its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

03/25/2004 Ludwig von Mises

This is a “new” book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a writer...

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Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Tags: Introductory, Featured, Austrian Economics Overview, Business Cycles, Capital and Interest Theory, Money and Banking, Booms and Busts, Money and Banks

03/02/2004 Mises Institute

Steeped in American history and Austrian economics, this extraordinary film is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.

Introduction to Banking

Tags: Introductory, Austrian Economics Overview, Money and Banking, Money and Banks

03/01/2004 Philippe Nataf

Recorded at Mises University 2001.

Speaking of Liberty

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Free Markets

12/15/2003 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Mises said that teaching the public was just as important as addressing scholars — maybe more so.That is what Lew Rockwell specializes in: history and theory and analysis in defense of the free society, written in clear prose to reach a broad...

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Defend America First

Tags: Introductory, War and Foreign Policy, World History

01/01/2003 Garet Garrett

The U.S. entry into World War II is one of the issues that American political culture considers to be settled and not discussable. This was not the case in the run up to the war. One group of writers and intellectuals, who led a mass movement...

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