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Subject: Wages-and-Unemployment: 17 records

Why Wages Rise

F.A. Harper
Updated 2/24/2012
F.A. Harper Why Wages Rise...
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...
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 Theory of Collective Bargaining

William H. Hutt
Updated 12/26/2011
In 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 Illusion

L. Albert Hahn
Updated 10/7/2011
L. Albert Hahn was one of the most highly regarded economists and bankers in Germany before World War II, but he was unknown in the United States until this translation of The Economics of Illusion appeared in 1949. He immigrated to the United States...
Money, Method, and the Market Process

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 9/29/2011
Edited by Richard M. Ebeling This volume might be called the Mises Reader, for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like "Observations on the Cooperative Movement,"...
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...
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...
Rehabilitation of Say's Law, A

William H. Hutt
Updated 9/9/2011
With A Rehabilitation of Say's Law, Professor William H. Hutt produced a magnificent work that Austrians would love to claim as one of their own, but that Hutt himself viewed as thoroughly classical in nature. The topic addressed here is Say&...
Tiger by the Tail

Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 8/8/2011
F.A. Hayek said that his biggest regret in a lifetime of writing was that he never wrote a book-length refutation of Keynesian economics. He seriously doubted that Keynesian style planning would ever captivate governments, so he focused on differ...
The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays

Richard M. Ebeling
Updated 7/13/2011
New edition with an introduction by Roger Garrison and an index. Booms and busts are not endemic to the free market, argues the Austrian theory of the business cycle, but come about through manipulation of money and credit by central banks. In this m...
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...
The Concise Guide To Economics

Jim Cox
Updated 2/9/2011
To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. The Concise Guide To Economics is a handy, quick reference guide for...
The Return to Laisser Faire

Sir Ernest Benn
Updated 6/5/2009
Ernest J. P. Benn The Return To Laisser Faire...
The State, The Enemy

Sir Ernest Benn
Updated 6/5/2009
Ernest Benn The State, The Enemy...
Protection or Free Trade: An Examination of the Tariff Question, with Especial Regard to the Interests of Labor

Henry George
Updated 10/5/2007
Henry George Protection and Free Trade (1886)...
Consumption of Capital in Austria, The

Fritz Machlup
Updated 1/15/2007
F.W. Taussig The Tariff History of the United States NT...

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