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Subject: Economic-History: 95 records

Education: Free and Compulsory

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/2/2014

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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 The introduction brings this classic up to date - not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will.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...
God's Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times

John T. Flynn Updated 12/16/2011

In 1932, John T. Flynn had begun to rethink his old-style "progressivism" to develop intellectually into a defender of markets as against the regimentation of government management. A first product of these steps is this classic and extraor...
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...
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...
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 Bubble that Broke the World

Garet Garrett Updated 9/15/2011

What caused the stock-market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed? This book blows away the conventional interpretations, not only in its contents but that the book exists at all. The Bubble that Broke the World was written in 1931....
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 Vampire Economy

Günter Reimann Updated 6/3/2011

Here is a study of the actual workings of business under national socialism. Written in 1939, Reimann discusses the effects of heavy regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, national economic planning, and attacks on private propert...
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...
Jefferson

Albert Jay Nock Updated 4/28/2011

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 property...
The New Deal in Old Rome

H. J. Haskell Updated 4/5/2011

How Government in the Ancient World Tried to Deal with Modern Problems What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. H.J. Haskell was a journalist with a huge background in ancient history, and here he does...
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 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...
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...
Hayek and His Lamentable Contemporaries

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The final lecture in a series of six on the History of Economic Thought. [1:07:46]...
Mises and Austrian Economics

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The fifth in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [56:38]...
Menger and Böhm-Bawerk

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The fourth in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:37]...
The Pre-Austrians

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The third in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:55]...
Ideology and Theories of History

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The first in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:06:34]...
The Emergence of Communism

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The second in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:47]...
Nation, State, and Economy

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/28/2010

This was Mises's second book. It was written following his military service in World War I. It is also his first book that dealt with political themes--and began Mises's full-scale launch into the fight against collectivism that would be a th...
The Economics of Inflation: A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany

Constantino Bresciani-Turroni Updated 5/15/2010

"This is the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the great German inflation from 1914 to 1923." - Henry Hazlitt As an Austrian study of hyperinflation, this study has never been surpassed. The same is true of the detailed ex...
A History of American Currency

William Graham Sumner Updated 5/14/2010

The author, William Graham Sumner, was the great sociologist of late 19th century America, but also a wise observer of economic conditions. In 1874, in the midst of another debate about the future of the American monetary system, he offered this...
The Driver

Garet Garrett Updated 5/14/2010

Here is a treasure in the history of the pro-capitalist novel. Garet Garrett, author of The People's Pottage, tells the story of an upstart Wall Street speculator financier, Henry Galt, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as p...
The Cinder Buggy

Garet Garrett Updated 5/14/2010

Garet Garrett's fiction deals with the social impact of economic transformations. In The Driver, he deals with railroads, while Satan's Bushel examines agricultural. The Cinder Buggy, his second in the trilogy, is the longest of the three...
Liberty and Property

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/10/2010

In 1956, the Mont Pelerin Society was entering a difficult period in which its intellectual lights were drifting away from liberalism of the old school. Ludwig von Mises used his speech that year to explain why this was a terrible trend. He didn'...
War Collectivism in World War I

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 4/20/2010

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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of Total State and Total War

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/27/2009

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent defec...
Die Entwicklung des gutsherrlich-bäuerlichen Verhältnisses in Galizien: 1772–1848;

Ludwig von Mises Updated 11/12/2008

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A New History of Leviathan

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/17/2007

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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

Harry Elmer Barnes Updated 7/16/2007

Harry Elmer Barnes Perputual War for Perpetual Peace...
How Can Europe Survive

Hans F. Sennholz Updated 7/10/2007

Hans Sennholz How Can Europe Survive...
"Cheap Money, Gold, and the Federal Reserve Bank Policy"

Benjamin Anderson Updated 7/5/2007

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Money and Man

Elgin Groseclose Updated 4/20/2007

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A Time is Born

Garet Garrett Updated 1/30/2007

Garet Garrett (1944) A Time is Born...
"Protectionist Roots of Antitrust, The"

Donald J. Boudreaux Updated 1/15/2007

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"Political Economy of the New Deal, The, by Jim F. Crouch and William F. Shughart II"

William L. Anderson Updated 1/15/2007

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"Black 47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory, by Cormac O'Grada"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

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"Dinero, Credito Bancario y Ciclos Econonomicos, by Jesus Huerta de Soto"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Fraud of Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy"

Lowell Gallaway Updated 1/15/2007

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"When in the Course of Human Events by Charles Adams"

Mark Thornton Updated 1/15/2007

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"In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign against Competition, 1918-1938 by Butler Shaffer"

Robert Higgs Updated 1/15/2007

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"'Confederate' Blockade of the South, the"

Robert B. Ekelund Updated 1/15/2007

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