Introductory

The Free Market and Its Enemy

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07/15/1965 • Leonard E. Read

Read explores “the miraculous workings of tiny creativities, the ultimate constituents of the free market, that institution on which depend all liberties, and thus man’s emergence. And [the] State must have its perversions diagnosed if we are...

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Education and the State

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06/01/1965 • E. G. West

Education and the State first appeared in 1965 and was immediately hailed as one of the century’s most important works on education. In the thirty years that have followed, the questions this book raised concerning state-run education have grown...

Anything That’s Peaceful: The Case for the Free Market

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09/15/1964 • Leonard E. Read

Leonard Read was a great spokesman for liberty, and an excellent teacher in the second half of the 20th century. Everyone agrees that this is his most inspired collection. It includes the essay later called “I, Pencil,” which is a masterful...

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What Has Government Done to Our Money?

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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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Capitalism and the Historians

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, World History

04/15/1963 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Even today, social scientists and historians continue to treat the Industrial Revolution as if it were the beginning of the end of civilization. What the essays in this book do is show the opposite. It was in many ways the beginning of a new...

Elements of Libertarian Leadership

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05/15/1962 • Leonard E. Read

It is difficult to set forth the libertarian ideal, but expounding it is simple compared to living by it. Nonetheless, life lived according to right principles can never be more than sporadic except as the ideal is sought for, held up, and used...

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Planning for Freedom; and Twelve other Essays and Addresses

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05/15/1962 • Ludwig von Mises

An enduring collection of Mises’s essays, some popular and others scholarly, but always engaging and provocative. The first edition came out in 1952, and headlined the essay “Planning for Freedom,” which makes the point that the choice isn’t...

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The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar

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01/01/1962 • Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard shows how money must originate from a commodity. In an ideal system, a dollar would be a unit of weight, and paper money would operate strictly as warehouse receipts for the stock of the monetary metal. There would be no fractional...

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Planned Chaos

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04/01/1961 • Ludwig von Mises

This new edition of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date — not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will. The title comes from Mises’s...

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Liberty and Property

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10/15/1958 • Ludwig von Mises

In 1958, the Mont Pelerin Society was entering a difficult period in which its intellectual lights were drifting away from liberalism of the old school. Ludwig von Mises used his speech that year to explain why this was a terrible trend. He didn...

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