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Source: Online Books: 518 records

Mises on Money

Gary North
Updated 5/24/2012
This professionally prepared ebook is an electronic edition of the book that is designed for reading on digital readers like Nook, Kindle, iPad, Sony Reader, and other products including iPhone and Android smart phones. The text reflows depending o...
The Turgot Collection: Writings, Speeches, and Letters of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

A.R.J. Turgot
Updated 5/24/2012
This outstanding book was ten years in the making, but it is finally here and the result is startling. It is a pocket edition, super economical, 525 pages of Turgot – the bulk of his life’s work, all beautifully organized. He mig...
Conceived in Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 5/14/2012
The new single-volume edition of Conceived in Liberty is here! After so many years of having to juggle four volumes, the Mises Institute has finally put it altogether in a single, 1,616-page book. This makes it easier to read, and makes clearer just...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 3

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 5/9/2012
RAE VOLUME 3 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
America's Second Crusade

William Henry Chamberlin
Updated 5/2/2012
Was World War II a failure? It is an unthinkable thought in the American political ethos. but noted American journalist and author William Henry Chamberlin dares think it, from the vantage point of the immediate postwar world of 1950. "Not on...
The Development of Economics

William A Scott
Updated 5/2/2012
William A. Scott The Development of Economics...
Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Jörg Guido Hülsmann
Updated 4/27/2012
Rare is the scholar to inspire a festschrift--a volume of papers written by top specialists in honor of a major thinker-but this one is very special. It is sure to grow in importance as the years move on, for it contains phenomenal contributions writ...
Free Market Economics: A Syllabus

Bettina Bien Greaves
Updated 4/20/2012
This little gem is a complete economics education for high-school age students. It provides lessons, study questions, activities, and an excellent list of readings for each topic under consideration. Bettina chose well because the readings all hold u...
Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader

Bettina Bien Greaves
Updated 4/20/2012
Bettina Bien Greaves put this volume together as a one-stop primer in economics that includes the best economic writing she had run across. In some ways, the choices are brilliant. They are arranged by topic to cover the division of labor, prices...
As We Go Marching

John T. Flynn
Updated 4/16/2012
John T. Flynn's classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. In some ways, this is the finest and most mature of all his works. It was written in wartime and his points were profoundly cutting. After all, the U.S....
Men of Wealth: The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day

John T. Flynn
Updated 4/16/2012
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 wealth in history: Jacob Fugger, John Law,...
Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles

Jesus Huerta de Soto
Updated 4/4/2012
3rd Edition - Updated and revised. The three years since the publication of the previous English edition of Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles have seen a continuation of the economic recession process set in motion after the 2007 financia...
Our Enemy, the State

Albert Jay Nock
Updated 3/22/2012
What does one need to know about politics? In some ways, Nock has summed it all up in this astonishing book, the influence of which has grown every year since its publication. The Mises Institute has long hoped for an opportunity to produce a...
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 3/22/2012
In 1954, after a lifetime of serious theoretical work in economic science, Mises turned his attention to one of the great puzzles of all time: discovering why the intellectuals hate capitalism. The result is this socio-psycho-cultural analysis inform...
An Economic Review of the Patent System

Fritz Machlup
Updated 3/16/2012
Fritz Machlup An Economic Review of the Patent System (1958) Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
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 3/16/2012
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...
Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Updated 2/29/2012
This professionally prepared ebook is an electronic edition of the book that is designed for reading on digital readers like iPad, Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, and other products including iPhone and Android smart phones. The text reflows depending o...
The Tragedy of the Euro

Philipp Bagus
Updated 2/29/2012
2nd Edition Philipp 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 cur...
Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View

Ron Paul
Updated 2/29/2012
Ron Paul deserves a high place in the history of liberty for being the only seriously principled statesman to serve in the US House of Representatives in the last quarter of the 20th century. It should not be a surprise to discover that Ludwig vo...
From Bretton Woods to World Inflation: A Study of Causes and Consequences

Henry Hazlitt
Updated 2/24/2012
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...
Lectures on Political Economy - Volume I: General Theory

Knut Wicksell
Updated 2/24/2012
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...
Foundations of the Market Price System

Milton M. Shapiro
Updated 2/24/2012
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...
Why Wages Rise

F.A. Harper
Updated 2/24/2012
F.A. Harper Why Wages Rise...
Will Dollars Save the World?

Henry Hazlitt
Updated 2/24/2012
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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