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Literature Library: free books from the Ludwig von Mises Institute: 2577 records

Why Wages Rise

F.A. Harper
Updated 2/22/2012
F.A. Harper Why Wages Rise...
Aspects of the Pathology of Money

Michael A. Heilperin
Updated 2/20/2012
Professor Heilperin was the outstanding monetary theorist before and after the Second World War who explained the inflation dangers associated with monetary nationalism, and called for a new international monetary system based on gold: not a gold exc...
Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School

Ralph Raico
Updated 2/15/2012
Here is the book to learn classical liberalism from the ground up, written by the foremost historian in the Austrian tradition--Ralph Raico. Every student, scholar, and freedom fan must have a copy of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School at...
Lectures on Political Economy - Volume I: General Theory

Knut Wicksell
Updated 2/15/2012
Knut Wicksell was a Swedish economist who had an enormous influence on Austrian economics and Ludwig von Mises. This might be his most compelling book: lectures delivered over the course of an entire career, covering both general and specific economi...
From Bretton Woods to World Inflation: A Study of Causes and Consequences

Henry Hazlitt
Updated 2/13/2012
Henry Hazlitt was a leading editorialist for the New York Times from 1934 until 1946. His career at the paper, however, abruptly ended because of the articles collected in this book. He closely covered the Keynesian-inspired Bretton Woods Agreement o...
The Common Sense of Political Economy, Volume 1

Philip H. Wicksteed
Updated 2/10/2012
Phillip H. Wicksteed The Common Sense of Political Economy, vol. 1...
Foundations of the Market Price System

Milton M. Shapiro
Updated 2/9/2012
Murray Rothbard just loved this Austrian text on microeconomic theory. In fact, he thought it was the best text available - except that it has only been sporadically available since it was first published in 1974. It is characterized by a strong peda...
Will Dollars Save the World?

Henry Hazlitt
Updated 2/9/2012
Henry Hazlitt had left the New York Times in an ideological disagreement over post-war economic policy. Once he left, he was free to speak his mind on the important issues of the day, among which the Marshall Plan. This is his blockbuster argument...
New Directions in Austrian Economics

Louis M. Spadaro, (ed.)
Updated 2/6/2012
This collection first appeared in the midst of the American Austrian revival, and its insights are constantly culled by modern students. In it, Austrian economists examine technical aspects of money, interest, capital and business cycles, and propert...
Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

Jörg Guido Hülsmann
Updated 1/30/2012
"A true masterpiece!" Bettina Bien Greaves "This masterpiece on the life of Mises is a great achievement! Its contents and scope surpass all economic biographies." Jesus Huerta de Soto "The first 300 pages of this big boo...
Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics

Jesus Huerta de Soto
Updated 1/29/2012
Rothbard Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
The Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest

Jeffrey M. Herbener
Updated 1/25/2012
It’s about time. Really! An entire book fleshing out the pure time-preference theory of interest has finally been assembled. The present crop of Keynesians play with interest rates believing they can create prosperity without a sound theoretical...
The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Booms from Colonial Days to the Present Times

A. M. Sakolski
Updated 1/25/2012
Those who lived through the huge speculative real estate bubble of the 1990s through 2008 might have imagined that it was unprecedented. Not so. Far from it! This definitive history of land speculation provides a well-documented but hugely ente...
The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914

Robert Higgs
Updated 1/25/2012
The Gilded Age, lasting from 1865 to World War I, was an era of economic growth never before seen in the history of the world. The standard of living of the modern age was born during this time of phenomenal transition. Lives lengthen. Wealth explode...
The Great Depression

Lionel Robbins
Updated 1/24/2012
The New Deals of America and Britain were a decade-long calamity that exceeded the damage of the economic downturn itself. The theory behind the policy was all wrong, but no one can say that the correct theory was not in circulation. This splendi...
Frederic Bastiat: A Man Alone

George Charles Roche III
Updated 1/24/2012
Bastiat struggled his entire life to teach economic truths to every living person. His legacy is monumental and speaks to us today as clearly as it did France in the 19th century. He would certainly be thrilled by this biography of his life...
The Free Market Reader

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (ed.)
Updated 1/19/2012
Stephan Kinsella says that he has "highly recommended this book for years as one of the best introductions to libertarian/free market thought." Enrico Peppe says it is "straightforward, logical, and fun." Thank goodness it is...
The Freeman Book

Albert Jay Nock
Updated 1/17/2012
Yes, that's right: The Freeman. This was the original, as edited by Albert Jay Nock in the early 1920s. It was radical, far-reaching, topical, and bracing in every way. Here we have a collection of what Nock himself considered to be the best of t...
Austrian Macroeconomics: A Diagrammatical Exposition

Roger W. Garrison
Updated 1/17/2012
When Murray Rothbard laid eyes on this classic monograph, he cheered. Here we have a graphical presentation that explains the Austrian view of macroeconomics in contrast to the simple and even simple-minded approach of the Keynesian aggregates. The...
Bagels, Barry Bonds, and Rotten Politicians

Burton Blumert
Updated 1/17/2012
Burton Blumert was an entrepreneur who knew not only all that there is to know about precious metals but also about politics and economics. He offers his wide-ranging insights in this funny, charming, and also learned collection of essays from many y...
The Wild Wheel

Garet Garrett
Updated 1/17/2012
No one, but no one, tells the story of the Ford Motor Company like Garet Garrett. He loved machines and technology, and the markets that create and distribute them. He loved the car and its transforming effect on society. And he lived through it all...
The Philosophy of Ownership

Robert LeFevre
Updated 1/13/2012
The significance of property ownership has rarely been fully appreciated, writes Robert LeFevre. He proceeds to present the entire libertarian case for private ownership, with his characteristic clarity of exposition. He makes what is a radically...
Duplicate: [681] Prices and Production and Other Works: F.A. Hayek on Money, The Business Cycle, and the Gold Standard

Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 1/13/2012
Hayek was not only a leading champion of liberty in the 20th century. As this massive book reveals, he was also a great economist whose elaboration on monetary theory and the business cycle made him the leading foe of Keynesian theory and policy in t...
The Return to Protection

William Smart
Updated 1/13/2012
William Smart was the outstanding Austrian in England during his generation, a leading advocate of the marginalist school. But he was more than that: he was a dedicated champion of laissez-faire trade policy in the tradition of Cobden and Bright. He...
Duplicate: [94] Economic Science and the Austrian Method

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 1/13/2012
A definitive defense of the methodological foundations of Austrian economics. Hoppe sets the praxeological view (economics as a purely deductive science) against positivism, while taking the critics of the Austrian approach head on. Hans-Hermann H...
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 1/12/2012
Ridiculously low price! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austria...
Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought

Israel M. Kirzner
Updated 1/12/2012
Israel Kirzner is an outstanding student of Mises's, and here is his sweeping defense of the Misesian definition of the scope and meaning of economic science. He compares the Misesian view of human action with the neoclassical and classical schoo...
What You Should Know About Inflation

Henry Hazlitt
Updated 1/11/2012
The book's title—What You Should Know About Inflation—only hints at the extent of the issues that Hazlitt addresses. He presents the Austrian theory of money in the clearest possible terms, and contrasts it with the fallacies of government manage...
Persuasion, Vol. 2., No. 6

Joan Kennedy Taylor
Updated 1/10/2012
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Persuasion Vol.2, No. 5

Joan Kennedy Taylor
Updated 1/10/2012
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Persuasion, Vol. 5, No. 4

Joan Kennedy Taylor
Updated 1/10/2012
Persuasion, 1968...
Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 4

Joan Kennedy Taylor
Updated 1/10/2012
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Persuasion, Vol. 5, No. 3

Joan Kennedy Taylor
Updated 1/10/2012
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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 3

Joan Kennedy Taylor
Updated 1/10/2012
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Persuasion, Vol. 5, No. 2

Joan Kennedy Taylor
Updated 1/10/2012
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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 2

Joan Kennedy Taylor
Updated 1/10/2012
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The Freeman June 1953

John Chamberlain
Updated 1/10/2012
John Chamberlain The Freeman June 1953...
Education: Free and Compulsory

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 1/10/2012
What is it about today's school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have so many generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level...
Crises and Cycles

Wilhelm Röpke
Updated 1/10/2012
It's hard to say what is the most rare, most hard to find, most buried important book, in the history of the Austrian School. But this splendid and critically important treatise would certainly be among the nominees. Until this edition, this...
Ludwig von Mises's Letter to Rand on Atlas Shrugged

George Reisman
Updated 1/10/2012
George Reisman Mises to Rand re Atlas.max...
International Economic Disintegration

Wilhelm Röpke
Updated 1/9/2012
Röpke wrote this book in the late 30s, and it was published in 1942. He explains how the world unraveled the 1930s from a combination of protectionism and monetary destruction. And while his analysis is robust, he also relays what seems to be an...
Songs of the Mises-Kreis (Complete Collection)

Mises Institute
Updated 1/6/2012
Here is the book that allows you to sing like Mises and the gang, with all verses for the songs we've been able to reconstruct, and complete piano accompaniments. From 1920 until 1934, Ludwig von Mises conducted a fortnightly private seminar...
The Value of Money

Benjamin Anderson
Updated 1/6/2012
Benjamin Anderson, American Austrian, was among a handful of economists, led by Ludwig von Mises in his pioneering work The Theory of Money and Credit in 1912, who set out to integrate monetary theory into a general theory of value. Anderson devot...
International Order and Economic Integration

Wilhelm Röpke
Updated 1/3/2012
Some of Röpke's best work has remained long out of print, this book among them. With great sincerity and passion he explains how the old liberals of his generation came to reject war came to reject war as a first principle and then reject so...
Labor Policy of the Free Society, The

Sylvester Petro
Updated 1/2/2012
Professor Petro is one of the giants of the Austrian tradition, and he applied his talents to a particular area of specialization: labor policy. This 1957 book covers three main areas: US labor law and experience, the Austrian theory of labor/capital...
The Free Market and Its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 12/31/2011
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 w...
The Free Market and Its Enemy

Leonard E. Read
Updated 12/31/2011
Leonard E. Read The Free Market and Its Enemy...
Critique of Interventionism, A

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 12/30/2011
In the sequence of Mises's books concerning policy, this book followed Socialism, and was the first to present a new theory of interventionism. In Mises's view, interventionism is an inherently unstable policy because it creates new disloc...
An Introduction to the Theory of Value

William Smart
Updated 12/30/2011
It is astonishing that a book of this quality would have been completely lost to history. It was the first to introduce the core ideas of the Menger branch of Marginalist thought to English readers. The first edition appeared in 1891. It appeared in...
How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men and Women Told by Themselves

Orison Swett Marden
Updated 12/29/2011
There is a beautiful romance in this book, a romance with achievement in an age when achievement was valued. It can happen again, and a good first step is to study the lives and values of the greats of the last century to learn how and why. The Gi...

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