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Aspects of the Pathology of Money
Michael A. Heilperin
Updated 2/13/2012Professor 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... -
From Bretton Woods to World Inflation: A Study of Causes and Consequences
Henry Hazlitt
Updated 2/13/2012Henry 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... -
Foundations of the Market Price System
Milton M. Shapiro
Updated 2/9/2012Murray 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 2/9/2012Henry 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 2/6/2012This 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... -
The Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest
Jeffrey M. Herbener
Updated 1/25/2012It’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 1/25/2012Those 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 1/25/2012The 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... -
Frederic Bastiat: A Man Alone
George Charles Roche III
Updated 1/24/2012Bastiat 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 1/19/2012Stephan 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 1/17/2012Yes, 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 1/17/2012When 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 1/17/2012Burton 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 1/17/2012No 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 1/13/2012The 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... -
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Duplicate: [681] Prices and Production and Other Works: F.A. Hayek on Money, The Business Cycle, and the Gold Standard
Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 1/13/2012Hayek 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 1/13/2012William 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... -
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Duplicate: [94] Economic Science and the Austrian Method
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 1/13/2012A 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 1/12/2012Ridiculously 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 1/12/2012Israel 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 1/11/2012The 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... -
Education: Free and Compulsory
Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 1/10/2012What 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 1/10/2012It'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... -
International Economic Disintegration
Wilhelm Röpke
Updated 1/9/2012Röpke 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... -
The Value of Money
Benjamin Anderson
Updated 1/6/2012Benjamin 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 1/3/2012Some 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 1/2/2012Professor 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... -
Critique of Interventionism, A
Ludwig von Mises
Updated 12/30/2011In 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 12/30/2011It 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 12/29/2011There 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... -
Planned Chaos
Ludwig von Mises
Updated 12/27/2011This new edition (completely reset) 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 c... -
The Theory of Collective Bargaining
William H. Hutt
Updated 12/26/2011In 1930, W.H. Hutt demonstrated several spectacular points: labor unions cannot lift wages overall; their earnings come at the expense of the consumer; their effect is to cartelize business and reduce free competition to the detriment of everyone. He... -
The Economics of the Colour Bar
William H. Hutt
Updated 12/23/2011Who were the original and most passionate opponents of apartheid in South Africa? The classical liberals, and this book was their most important weapon against the problem of racial injustice. William H. Hutt, an Austro-classical economist in Sou... -
My Years with Ludwig von Mises
Margit von Mises
Updated 12/22/2011A moving account of her life with "Lu," from their first days in Vienna to his death in New York in 1973. The reader learns that Mises was a warm and gentle husband, in addition to being a great mind. The author reports interesting anecdote... -
Antitrust: The Case for Repeal
Dominick Armentano
Updated 12/21/2011This 100-page tour de force rips the intellectual cover off antitrust regulation to reveal it for what it is: a bludgeon used by businesses against their competitors. Unlike some critics, Professor Armentano carries the logic of his analysis to fulle... -
Human Action
Ludwig von Mises
Updated 12/20/2011This spectacular edition of the great work has all the makings of a game changer. In a mere 24 hours after release, this became our all-time bestseller. The masterpiece first appeared in German in 1940 and then disappeared, only to reappear in E... -
The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Updated 12/20/2011This exceeding rare book is by one of the great men of the 20th century. Written soon after his immigration to the United States, he signed the book "Francis Stuart Campbell" because he was a refugee from Austria and didn't want to enda... -
The Conquest of Poverty
Henry Hazlitt
Updated 12/19/2011Long before Charles Murray took on the topic, Henry Hazlitt wrote an outstanding book on poverty that not only provided an empirical examination of the problem but also presented a rigorous theory for understanding the relationship between poverty an... -
God's Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times
John T. Flynn
Updated 12/16/2011In 1932, John T. Flynn had begun to rethink his old-style "progressivism" to develop intellectually into a defender of markets as against the regimentation of government management. A first product of these steps is this classic and extraor... -
Men of Wealth: The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day
John T. Flynn
Updated 12/15/2011Men of Wealth from Mises Media on Vimeo. This book reminds us what a remarkable writer and journalist John T. Flynn truly was. It is a first-class business history, by any standard. It is the story of great fortunes made by the most notable men of w... -
America's Great Depression
Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 12/14/2011Applied Austrian economics doesn't get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history. The Mises In... -
Banking and the Business Cycle
Chester A. Phillips
Updated 12/14/2011This rare study by C.A. Phillips, together with T.F. McManus and R.W. Nelson, appeared in 1937 as an Austrian-style analysis of the stock market crash and the great depression that followed. It explores the many theories tossed about at the time,... -
Essentials of Economics
Faustino Ballvé
Updated 12/13/2011A brief Survey of Principles and Policies Faustino Ballvé was a remarkable thinker and economist, educated in Spain and England and teaching and practicing law in Mexico City. He was here when Ludwig von Mises came to speak on a lecture t... -
The Tragedy of the Euro
Philipp Bagus
Updated 12/13/2011Philipp Bagus, professor of economics at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, is a young scholar with a large influence, having forecast all the problems with the Euro and having persuaded many economists on the Continent that this currency is no b... -
Socialism and International Economic Order
Elizabeth Tamedly
Updated 12/13/2011This extraordinary book by Elisabeth Tamedly, as scholarly as it is passionate, argues that socialism, despite its internationalist aspirations, is not capable of accomplishing stable international peace and order. If we postulate a true democracy, s... -
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Elements of Libertarian Leadership
Leonard E. Read
Updated 12/12/2011Leonard E. Read Elements of Libertarian Leadership... -
Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Updated 12/9/2011Sometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the idea was always vague. In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political power a... -
