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The Private Production of Defense

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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 Concise Guide To Economics

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06/15/1997 • Jim Cox

To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. The Concise Guide To Economics is a handy, quick reference guide for...

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The Case Against the Fed

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01/01/1994 • Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard provides a succinct account of the origins of money, showing how money must originate from a commodity. Banking originated from goldsmiths, who issued warehouse receipts for gold deposited with them. From this a fractional reserve...

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The Economics and Ethics of Private Property

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07/20/1993 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Austrian economics puts private property at the center of its analysis of value, price, and exchange. Respect for private property is also implied by the fundamental moral principle, “Do not steal.” Hans-Hermann Hoppe has devoted his life’s work...

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The Economics of Prohibition

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12/01/1991 • Mark Thornton

It is conventional wisdom that alcohol prohibition failed, but the economic reasons for this failure have never been as extensively detailed or analyzed as they are in this study by Mark Thornton. The lessons he draws apply not only to the...

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The Mystery of Banking

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11/28/1983 • Murray N. Rothbard

Readers of The Mystery of Banking will find that money and banking are, contrary to what the book’s title might suggest, no longer a mystery to them. Textbooks on money and banking are often prolix, dull, and confusing, but Murray Rothbard...

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Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays

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01/01/1974 • Murray N. Rothbard

Egalitarianism as a Revolt against Nature, and Other Essays is vital reading for anyone interested in the thought of Murray Rothbard. The book is his comprehensive effort to present libertarianism as a “science of liberty.” In order to grasp...

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Anatomy of the State

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01/01/1974 • Murray N. Rothbard

Murray Rothbard was known as the state’s greatest living enemy, and this is his most succinct and powerful statement on the topic.

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For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

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07/20/1973 • Murray N. Rothbard

Book Club Discussion Guide In For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto , Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for using state power against...

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Power and Market: Government and the Economy

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07/20/1970 • Murray N. Rothbard

What can government do to enhance social and economic well being? Nothing, says Murray N. Rothbard. Power and Market contains the proof. It will inoculate the reader against even the slightest temptation to invoke the state as a solution to any...

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