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Subject: History: 29 records

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...
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...
Planned Chaos

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 12/27/2011
This 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 The introduction brings this classic up to date - not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will.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...
America's Great Depression

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 12/14/2011
Applied 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...
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 11/3/2011
This fiery monograph shows a side of Murray Rothbard not seen in his theoretical treatise: his ability to employ "power elite" analysis to understand the relationship between money, power, and war. Rather than allow the left to dominate...
Fiat Money Inflation in France

Andrew Dickson White
Updated 10/3/2011
In Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White presents the still-largely-unknown story of a major factor behind the French Revolution. As John Mackay writes in the foreword, It records the most gigantic attempt ever made in the history...
The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 9/30/2011
The panic of 1819 was America's first great economic crisis. And this is Murray Rothbard's masterful account, the first full scholarly book on the topic and still the most definitive. It was his dissertation, published in 1962 but nearly impo...
Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers

Charles Holt Carroll
Updated 9/20/2011
Charles Holt Carroll defended sound money in a blazing series of essays appearing in the latter decades of the 19th century. They are all collected here, in The Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers. Little is known of Charles Holt Car...
The Production of Security

Gustave de Molinari
Updated 6/27/2011
The introduction to this stunning work is by Murray Rothbard, who calls French radical Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) the great innovator in the market provision of security. Indeed, he might be regarded as the first proponent of what is called anar...
The Free Man's Library

Henry Hazlitt
Updated 6/25/2011
Henry Hazlitt did an incredible thing with this book. He created in a mere 180 pages an anthology of short reviews of 550 books on economics and politics, old and new, from the point of view of an Austro-libertarian. Hazlitt wrote it because he bel...
On Doing the Right Thing

Albert Jay Nock
Updated 6/7/2011
This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his "Anarchist's Progress," "Thoughts on Revolution," "The Decline of Conversation," and other classics by this great American...
The Decline of the American Republic

John T. Flynn
Updated 5/26/2011
In 1955, John T. Flynn saw what few others journalist did: the welfare-warfare state conspired to bring down American liberty. The New Deal combined with World War Two had fastened leviathan control over a country born in liberty. This early analy...
Myth of National Defense, The: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 5/13/2011
With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services. It argues that "nat...
Tariff History of the United States

F.W. Taussig
Updated 5/10/2011
The Mises Institute has completely retypeset F.W. Taussig’s definitive work on the tariff of the 19th century in the United States, a history that in some sense is the most important ever written because it was so decisive in leading to the sectional...
The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 5/5/2011
Finally, here is an edition of Road to Serfdom that does justice to its monumental status in the history of liberty. It contains a foreword by the editor of the Hayek Collected Works, Bruce Caldwell. Caldwell has added helpful explanatory notes and c...
Century of War, A

John V. Denson
Updated 3/31/2011
A Century of War from Mises Media on Vimeo. John Denson, in a book that covers the history of America's large wars from 1860 through the Cold War, describes the twentieth century as the bloodiest in all history—not coincidentally a century of...
History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 10/25/2010
Hardcover Edition The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose cre...
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...
The Discovery of Freedom

Rose Wilder Lane
Updated 5/14/2010
With new forewords by Roger Lea MacBride and Hans F. Sennholz What an American original was Rose Wilder Lane! What a treasure! She lived from 1886 until 1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent collaborator on t...
Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom

John V. Denson
Updated 5/14/2010
American Despots Amazing low sale price in defense of authentic freedom as versus the presidency that betrayed it! Everyone seems to agree that brutal dictators and despotic rulers deserve scorn and worse. But why have historians been so willi...
Why American History is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism

Jeff Riggenbach
Updated 5/14/2010
Jeff Riggenbach's book is a godsend for anyone who needs a crash course in revisionist history of the United States. What is revisionism? It is the retelling of history from a point of view that differs from the mainstream, which always treats...
War Collectivism in World War I

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 4/20/2010
Jeff Tucker Microsoft Word - warcollectivism.doc Acrobat Distiller 7.0 (Windows)...
69. 'The Shot Heard Round the World': The Final Conflict Begins

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 10/19/2009
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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of Total State and Total War

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 5/27/2009
At the close of the Second World War, Mises saw the destruction of the old world and the beginnings of a new one that did not look promising, especially for European politics. Socialism appeared to sweep all before it, and the social democratic varie...
One Year After

Virgil Jordan
Updated 11/2/2007
Virgil Jordon (1946) One Year After...
Money and Man

Elgin Groseclose
Updated 4/20/2007
Elgin Groseclose Money and Man...
Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941

Charles Callan Tansill
Updated 4/12/2007
Charles Callan Tansill Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941...
A Time is Born

Garet Garrett
Updated 1/30/2007
Garet Garrett (1944) A Time is Born...
People's Pottage

Garet Garrett
Updated 1/15/2007
Garet Garrett The People's Pottage...

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