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Subject: Core: 30 records

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...
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...
What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 11/3/2011
When this gem first appeared in 1963, it took the form of a small paperback designed for mass distribution. We've conjured up that spirit again with this special edition of Rothbard's primer on money and government. Innumerable economists,...
On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises

Mary Sennholz
Updated 9/22/2011
This was the first Festschrift (1956) in Mises's honor, and the essays it contains have proven fruitful sources for decades. This reprint features a new introduction. Preeminently, it contains Rothbard's reconstruction of utility and welfare...
Economics for Real People

Gene Callahan
Updated 9/16/2011
The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or sta...
The Ethics of Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 8/29/2011
Murray Rothbard's greatest contribution to the politics of freedom is back in print. Following up on Mises's demonstration that a society without private property degenerates into economic chaos, Rothbard shows that every interference with pr...
Profit and Loss

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 8/15/2011
In 1951, Mises gave an outstanding paper that made the summary case for the price system under capitalistic economic systems. In "Profit and Loss," he explains how cost accounting is the critical institution that ferrets out social waste, e...
Interest and Prices

Knut Wicksell
Updated 6/29/2011
It was this work by Swedish economist Wicksell that drew Mises's attention to the effects of interest rate manipulation on the capital structure. This was the first to present the idea of the natural rate of interest, which Wicksell argued can be...
Capital and Interest

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Updated 6/8/2011
The great economist and finance minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is a pillar of the Austrian School. As a champion of the new marginalist school, this great work brought him more fame than even Carl Menger had in his day. Here is the origi...
Principles of Economics

Carl Menger
Updated 5/31/2011
Principles of Economics: Pocket Edition from Mises Media on Vimeo. This edition is absolutely gorgeous - handy, economical, and beautifully printed. We've never had an edition of this core work that is so nicely done. In the beginning, ther...
Introduction to Austrian Economics, An

Thomas C. Taylor
Updated 5/17/2011
For the serious student, this exposition of the essentials of Austrian economics is excellent. Taylor discusses all the fundamental aspects of Austrian thought, from subjectivism and marginal utility to inflation and the business cycle. This new and...
Country Squire in the White House

John T. Flynn
Updated 4/27/2011
John T. Flynn was an early New Dealer who quickly saw what happens when power is concentrated in the executive state. He became a passionate opponent of FDR and his policies. This 1940 book is his analysis of the American presidency and the place...
Failure of the 'New Economics'

Henry Hazlitt
Updated 4/15/2011
Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. T...
Economic Science and the Austrian Method

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 4/8/2011
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...
Chaos Theory

Robert P. Murphy
Updated 3/18/2011
Among the most advanced topics in the literature in the Austro-libertarian milieu is that which deals with the workings of the fully free society, that is, the society with no state, or anarcho-capitalism. Robert Murphy deals with this head on, and m...
The Clash of Group Interests and Other Essays

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 2/2/2011
In this thrilling essay written in 1945, Mises lays out a theory of social organization in response to the Marxist critique of the free society. He explains that the Marxist view is wrong concerning its claim that there is a clash of group interests...
Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, The

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 12/3/2010
If Mises has an unheralded masterpiece, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science is it. There are two senses in which this book is indeed ultimate: it deals with the very core of economics as a science, and it is the last book that he wrote. For t...
Speaking of Liberty

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Updated 10/25/2010
Mises said that teaching the public was just as important as addressing scholars — maybe more so.That is what Lew Rockwell specializes in: history and theory and analysis in defense of the free society, written in clear prose to reach a broad audien...
"Intellectuals and Socialism"

Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 9/8/2010
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Study Guide of Man, Economy, and State

Robert P. Murphy
Updated 6/18/2010
The prose of Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard is as clear as a bell. But its sheer size (1441 pages!) is intimidating. After all, Rothbard systematically covers the whole of economic science. Fortunately, the young and brilliant economi...
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 6/11/2010
New hardcover edition, introduction by Murray N. Rothbard Like Hayek, Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises's writings on t...
Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 5/28/2010
New LvMI edition with foreword by Thomas Woods This is Mises's classic statement in defense of a free society, one of the last statements of the old liberal school and a text from which we can continue to learn. It has been the conscience of a g...
Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics

George Reisman
Updated 5/17/2010
George Reisman was a student of Mises's, a translator of his work, and, as he demonstrates in this outstanding treatise, a leading theorist in the Misesian tradition. This mammoth exposition deals with the method and theory of economics, and part...
Epistemological Problems of Economics

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 4/20/2010
"The characteristic feature of this age of destructive wars and social disintegration is the revolt against economics." So says Ludwig von Mises in his most thorough defense of the method and scope of economic science. In this treatise,...
Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 5/26/2009
This might be Mises's best-selling book. This new release is certainly the most beautiful edition to appear yet. It is a very clear explanation of the basics of economic policy: private property, free trade, exchange, prices, interest, money...
The Social and Political Philosophy of Adam Ferguson: A Commentary on his Essay on the History of Civil Society

Ronald Hamowy
Updated 7/10/2007
Ronald Hamowy The Social and Political Philosophy of Adam Ferguson...
The Nature and Significance of Economic Science

Lionel Robbins
Updated 1/16/2007
Lord Robbins An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science...
Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, An

Lionel Robbins
Updated 1/15/2007
This book by Lionel Robbins first appeared in 1932 as an outstanding English-language statement of the Misesian view of economic method, namely that economics is a social science and must advance its propositions by means of deductive reasoning and n...
"Misesian Case Against Keynes, The"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 1/15/2007
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The Ongoing Methodenstreit of the Austrian School

Jesus Huerta de Soto
Updated 1/15/2007
Reviewed by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Mark Thornton Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Paper Capture Plug-in Libertarian Legalism...

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