Books

Is There Such a Thing As a Skyscraper Curse?

09/09/2016 • Elizabeth Boyle • Lucas M. Engelhardt • Mark Thornton

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) ABSTRACT: There is an emerging literature on the subject of skyscrapers and business cycles. Lawrence (1999) first noticed the correlation between important changes in the economy...

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It Didn't Have to Be This Way

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, Free Markets, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 • Harry C. Veryser

Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the recent economic meltdown--or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent future calamities? Mainstream economics has no adequate answers...

It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes

Tags: Media and Culture

06/23/2011 • Jeffrey A. Tucker

We are surrounded by miracles created in the private sector, particularly in the digital universe, and yet we don't appreciate them enough. Meanwhile, the public sector is systematically wrecking the physical world in sneaky and petty ways that...

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Jefferson

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History

06/15/1926 • Albert Jay Nock

Here is Albert Jay Nock's classic study on the life and thought of Thomas Jefferson, a book which draws out points other biographers have missed: his radicalism, his opposition to all centralized government, his attachment to liberty and...

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John Prince Smith and the German Free-Trade Movement

12/06/2017 • Ralph Raico

John Prince Smith was the creator of the German free trade movement and its leader from the 1840s until his death in 1874. He was born in London in 1809, and, after leaving Eton prematurely, on account of the death of his father, began working...

John Prince Smith and the German Free-Trade Movement

Tags: Biographies, World History

01/01/1988 • Ralph Raico

Originally published in Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard. Edited by Walter Block and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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Karl Marx and the Close of His System

01/01/1898 • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

The great economist takes on Karl Marx, and his fundamental failure to understand the workings of the capital market and its relationship to value. The criticism was devastating, so much so that a leading Marxist responded, and thus herein is...

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Keep US Out of War

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

04/07/2022 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Events in Ukraine are happening very fast, and if I tried to predict what will happen there, my prediction would soon be overtaken by events. But one thing is certain. We need to understand the background of the crisis, and we also need to...

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Keynes the Man

Tags: Biographies

03/06/2010 • Murray N. Rothbard

Here is Rothbard's mini-biography of Lord Keynes, one that makes use of all modern research to reconstruct Keynes's life and works in a way that is absolutely devastating. We read about his schooling, his secret societies, his political...

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Knowledge in the Service of a Political Agenda is Biased

Tags: Book Reviews, Socialism, World History

02/15/2022 • David Gordon

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity By David Graeber and David Wengrow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021 Xii + 692 pages The Dawn of Everything, which has already attracted much scholarly attention and is a best seller as well...

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Labor Economics From a Free Market Perspective

Tags: Intermediate

03/28/2008 • Walter Block

Walter Block, in this large collection of his writings on the topic, avoids no controversial issue in the course of a consistent application of Austrian labor theory. He begins with the determination of wages in a market economy and defends the...

Labor Monopolies or Freedom

06/15/1972 • John Scoville

From the author: This book has been written to present the basic facts and principles in regard to labor unions and collective bargaining. I believe that most of the thinking about labor unions is based on emotionalism rather than reason. Many...

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Lectures on Modern History

Tags: World History

07/22/1921 • Lord Acton

It was announced in February 1895 that John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton, had been appointed to the Chair of Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in succession to the late Sir John Seeley, who had held the office...

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Lectures on Political Economy, Volume I: General Theory

01/01/1934 • Knut Wicksell

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...

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Lectures on Political Economy, Volume II: Money

01/02/1935 • Knut Wicksell

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...

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Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

08/06/2014 • Murray N. Rothbard

The Conservative has long been marked, whether he knows it or not, by long-run pessimism: by the belief that the long-run trend, and therefore Time itself, is against him, and hence the inevitable trend runs toward left-wing statism at home and...

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Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse

Tags: World History

07/15/1974 • Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn gives us in Leftism a remarkable defense of classical liberal and libertarian thought, based on his enormous learning in the twenty languages he could read. Kuehnelt-Leddihn, an Austrian aristocrat, became in his long...

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Les Illusions du Protectionnisme et de l`Autarcie

01/01/1938 • Ludwig von Mises

The French version of Mises's The Disintegration of the International Division of Labour.

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Less than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy

03/16/1997 • George A. Selgin

In several countries, allowing for some positive bias in popular inflation measures, zero inflation itself is now close to being the status quo. That is a great accomplishment in its own right. But its full benefits will not be grasped unless we...

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Lessons for the Young Economist

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Featured, Education

03/10/2011 • Robert P. Murphy

Teacher's Manual available here. Lessons for the Young Economist is easily the best introduction to economics for the young reader—because it covers both pure economic theory and also how markets work (the domain of most introductory books).T...

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