Seph: I cant understand why The Creature From Jekyll Island isnt more hyped than it is. It might be one of the best, if not the best, books on the Fed.
I cant understand why The Creature From Jekyll Island isnt more hyped than it is.
It might be one of the best, if not the best, books on the Fed.
People are too quick to tag conspiracy like.
I enjoyed it though!
Statism is a religion.
Daniel: Laughing Man:I would take a picture of my book shelf but it might scare some people. I bet it's mostly socialist/commie books. :D
Laughing Man:I would take a picture of my book shelf but it might scare some people.
I bet it's mostly socialist/commie books. :D
You've discovered my secret shame.
'It is difficult to imagine any normal person wishing to meet Marx for a third time.' - Alexander Gray, The Socialist Tradition
Top to bottom, Left to Right:
A Manual for Writers [ Basic citation book for Turabian style ] by Kate Turabian
Philosophy of History by MC Lemon [ A good book for understanding how history is interpreted ]
50 Key Thinkers on History by Marine Warrington [ Again a good book on how history is interpreted ]
The Inferno by Dante [ I just like his writing style ]
The Tailor King by Anthony Arthur [ A book on the history of Munster and the Anabaptist communists who took it over ]
The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn [ On the history of post millenarian medieval movements that were usually communist ]
Strange and Fascinating Facts About Presidents by Charle Reichblum [ I like odd facts about presidents ]
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffry Chaucer [ People make scratch their heads to this but I think it is a good portrayal of social status in medieval Britain ]
Becoming a Historian by the American Historical Association [ Just a nice book on the hoops you have to jump through to become an official historian ]
The Socialist Tradition by Alexander Gray [ My favorite and I think my oldest book [1943] on the history of Socialism ]
The Triumph of Conservatism by Gabriel Kolko [ We know this one, no explanation necessary ]
The Moulding of Communists by Frank Meyer [ An interesting book on the psychological mentality of cadre communists while working in the communist party]
The Breakdown of Socialism by Arthur Shadwell [ I have yet to read but from what I gather a history of Socialist parties and movements ]
The History of Money and Banking by Rothbard [ self-explanatory ]
Fire on the Minds of Men by James Billington [ A history of revolutionary movements especially socialists ]
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams [ self-explanatory ]
The Origins of the First World War by James Joll [ self-explanatory ]
Perilous Times by Geoffrey Stone [ A history of dissident speech in US politics ]
Political Pilgrims by Paul Hollander [ A history of political theorists and journalists who went to communist countries during their hey-day and reported on their situations, people like Lincoln Steffens ]
The Revolution by Ron Paul [ self-explanatory ]
The Articles of Confederation & Constitution
Second Row
The Great Anarchists by Paul Eltzbacher [ I can't recommend this book whole-heartedly because it is somewhat wishy washy. The author decides to put himself in the book. Though it does cover Bakunin, Proudhon, Stirner, Spencer, Godwin and Kroptkin. You just have to get over the first chapter which is the author's views]
Who Killed the Constitution? by Thomas Woods [ self-explanatory ]
The First Anarchist Manifesto by Anselme Bellegarrigue [ A wonderful pamphlet by a French individualist anarchist who lived during the French revolution. Highly recommend this work ]
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek [ self-explanatory ]
Leading Economic Controversies of 1996 [ I keep this around because Greenspan has an article in it about monetary policy ]
The Myth of the Robber Barons by Folsom [ self-explanatory ]
The Anti-Capitalist Mentality by Mises [ self-explanatory ]
Nation, State, and Economy by Mises [ self-explanatory ]
Designing the Industrial State by James Gilbert [ A history of collectivist planning in the United States from 1890 to 1940 ]
The Development of Economic Doctrine by Alexander Gray [ A history of economic thought by Gray which includes the Austrians. Very good book, the store here has it ]
Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt [ self-explanatory ]
The Invisible Hand of Planning by Guy Alchon [ Another history of collectivist planning specifically in the 1920's ]
FDR's Folly by Jim Powell [ self-explanatory ]
How Capitalism Saved America by DiLorenzo [ self-explanatory ]
The Panic of 1819 by Rothbard [ self-explanatory ]
Our Enemy, The State by Albert Jay Nock [self-explanatory ]
The Basic Works of Aristotle
Animal Farm by Orwell [ self-explanatory ]
1984 by Orwell [ self-explanatory ]
The Left, The Right, & The State by Lew Rockwell [ self-explanatory ]
Propaganda for War by H.C. Peterson [ A history of propagandizing that lead us into WWII ]
Benevolent Assimilation by Stuart Miller [ A history of the Philippine intervention ]
Twelve Against Empire by Robert Beisner [ A history of the Anti-Imperialist League ]
The Decline of American Liberalism by Arthur Ekrich [ self-explanatory ]
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken [ self-explanatory ]
Corporations and the Cold War by David Horowitz [ A collection of essays concerning economic planning during the cold war ]
Third Row:
No Treason by Lysander Spooner [ the book that converted me to anarchism ]
Meltdown by Thomas Woods [ self-explanatory ]
We Who Dared to Say No to War by Thomas Woods & Murry Polner [ self-explanatory ]
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask by Thomas Woods [ self-explanatory ]
Anarchism: A documentary history of Libertarian Ideas volume one by Robert Graham [ A wonderful history of primary source documents written by various anarchists though many are the traditional collectivist type. Still a very good volume and I highly recommend ]
History of Economic Thought volume one and two by Rothbard [ self-explanatory ]
The People's Pottage by Garrett [ self-explanatory ]
For a New Liberty by Rothbard [ self-explanatory ]
Ressessing the Presidency by John Denson [ self-explanatory ]
Capitalism, Socialism, & Democracy by Schumpeter [ It's a first edition all the way from the forties ]
Inclined to Liberty by Carabini [ self-explanatory ]
Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed [ A first hand account of the Boshevik revolution in 1918 in Russia ]
Main Currents of Marxism volume one, two & three by Kolakowski [ probably the definitive work on this history of Marxist movement and its actors ]
The Marx-Engels Reader by Robert Tucker [ The selected works of both Marx and Engels ]
Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx by Robert Tucker [ An account of the philosophical origins on Marx and a biography of his life, very good book but very technical. Not for beginners concerning understanding Marxism ]
Socialism and Communism in Their Practical Application by Reverend Kaufmann [ A history of the application of socialist thought with movements ]
A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End by Peter Kenez [ kind of self-explanatory ]
Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest [ A history of the great famines experience by collectivist farming in Russia ]
The Great Terror by Robert Conquest [ A history of Stalin's reign of terror in Russia ]
And finally my Kindle DX with a nifty Ian Fleming Dr. No screen saver.
Laughing Man:And finally my Kindle DX with a nifty Ian Fleming Dr. No screen saver.
Do you like your DX? I'm kind of disappointed it came out the day after I bought my Kindle2. I was never able to get it a fair assessment.
filc: Laughing Man:And finally my Kindle DX with a nifty Ian Fleming Dr. No screen saver. Do you like your DX? I'm kind of disappointed it came out the day after I bought my Kindle2. I was never able to get it a fair assessment.
Oh yes, I love it. Just click and drag the Mises pdf's. No converting necessary and a nice big screen.
Laughing man and everyone else, you should post reviews on Amazon of the Austrian books you have. I made a post recently about it: http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/11587.aspx
This is my library. I also have Omnipresent State And Total War but I couldn't find it.
Laughing Man: I would take a picture of my book shelf but it might scare some people.
I would take a picture of my book shelf but it might scare some people.
I think a lot of Austrian libraries would be as scary, if such diverse books as writing manuals and Dante qualified as Austrian.
Human Action Comics Issues 1-6
Lilburne:I think a lot of Austrian libraries would be as scary, if such diverse books as writing manuals and Dante qualified as Austrian.
Dante....was a late...scholastic..yes..a late scholastic.
Within arm's reach her in the living room:
In my car for some reason:
For some reason, No Treason is in the spare bedroom.
The "library" upstairs consists of (sorry, no picture right now!)
I think I have a few more squirreled away or on loan right now that I can't think of off-hand.
============================
David Z
"The issue is always the same, the government or the market. There is no third solution."
That is a nice library. What is your profession?
Let's see.. I just started collecting physical books. I didn't get into Austrian Economics or Libertarians until the middle of 2009. But these are the books I bought this year. I know not all of these are Austrian...
Economics in One Lesson, Hazlitt
Block: The Privatization of Roads and Highways, Defending the Undefendable
Rothbard: The Ethics of Liberty, America's Great Depression, What has Government done with our Money?, For a New Liberty
Rand: Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, Capitalism: Unknown Ideal, The Virtue of Selfishness, Anthem
Let's Abolish Government, Spooner
The Creature of Jekyll Island, G. Edward Griffin
Democracy: The God That Failed, Hoppe
Recarving Rushmore & The Voluntary City, Independent Institute
New Libertarian Manifesto, EK3
The Agorist Class Theory
More Guns, Less Crime, John R. Lott Jr. (awesome book)
The Market for Liberty, Tannehill
Anti-Trust Policy, D.T. Armentaro
The Nature of Man and His Government, Robert LeFevre
Human Action, Ludwiq von Mises
Healing our World in an Age of Aggression, Mary J. Ruwart
A Woman's Right to Pornography & Liberty for Women, Wendy McElroy
And various Freedomain books.
Paul: The Revolution & End the Fed
Crash Proof 2.0, Peter Schiff
Meltdown, Thomas E. Woods Jr
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
Justin Laws:A Woman's Right to Pornography & Liberty for Women, Wendy McElroy
I've been meaning to get my hands on something by McElroy. Is she a good author?
Laughing Man: Justin Laws:A Woman's Right to Pornography & Liberty for Women, Wendy McElroy I've been meaning to get my hands on something by McElroy. Is she a good author?
She's not bad. I managed to finish both books, anyway. Liberty for Women is more of a book of essays by various people. She has a couple of essays in there. She also edited it. The Pornography one.. that was an interesting look into the world of porn from a woman's view, was good, tbh.
Justin Laws:She's not bad. I managed to finish both books, anyway. Liberty for Women is more of a book of essays by various people. She has a couple of essays in there. She also edited it. The Pornography one.. that was an interesting look into the world of porn from a woman's view, was good, tbh.
I find it interesting that she is a feminist. You don't see many libertarian feminist writers, so it kind of intrigued me. Thanks for the review.
Laughing Man: Justin Laws:She's not bad. I managed to finish both books, anyway. Liberty for Women is more of a book of essays by various people. She has a couple of essays in there. She also edited it. The Pornography one.. that was an interesting look into the world of porn from a woman's view, was good, tbh. I find it interesting that she is a feminist. You don't see many libertarian feminist writers, so it kind of intrigued me. Thanks for the review.
I wonder if she believes in one of the main tenets of feminism; that women are paid lesser wages because they are women.
My favorite online shop: www.cafepress.com/libertyphile
LM, I think you'd really enjoy her audiobooks. She's co-written a number of them with Ralph Raico.
Lilburne:Ralph Raico.
Sold.
my economics library (in physical format at least) is sparse. I have the essentials: the three major works of economics that have impacted policy and their austrian based refutations. I have Smith's Wealth of Nations next to Rothbard's history of economic thought, Marx's Das Kapital next to Mises' Socialism, and Keynes' General Theory next to Failure of the New Economics by Hazlitt. The rest I read in electronic form.
nazgulnarsil:Marx's Das Kapital next to Mises' Socialism
I think may constitute a violation of the NAP right there
Ludwig von Mises Institute | 518 West Magnolia Avenue | Auburn, Alabama 36832-4528
Phone: 334.321.2100 · Fax: 334.321.2119
contact@Mises.org | webmaster | AOL-IM MainMises
Mises.org sitemap