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Subject: The-History-of-Economic-Thought: 28 records

The Development of Economics

William A Scott
Updated 5/2/2012
William A. Scott The Development of Economics...
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...
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...
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...
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,"...
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 School of Salamanca

Marjorie Grice-Hutichinson
Updated 7/19/2011
Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson's remarkable classic, The School of Salamanca, posed an extraordinary challenge when it first appeared in 1952. The book is not only a pioneering presentation of this lost school of monetary theory--fantastic thinkers of...
Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 7/14/2011
For many who have read this book-length essay, it marked a turning point in a new understanding. The mainstream will forever attempt to pigeonhole belief systems based on the left-right dichotomy. The right supposedly favors economic freedom plus...
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...
Karl Marx and the Close of His System

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Updated 6/10/2011
The great economist takes on Karl Marx, and his fundamental failure to understand the workings of the capital market and its relationship to value. The criticism was devastating, so much so that a leading Marxist responded, and thus herein is Rudolf...
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...
Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 1/21/2011
This little essay offers something spectacular: an intellectual history of Mises's own tradition, with first person accounts of conversations with the greats. And truly, Mises turns out to have written the best single account of the origin and ea...
"Intellectuals and Socialism"

Friedrich A. Hayek
Updated 9/8/2010
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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]...
The Present State of Austrian Economics

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 5/12/2010
Murray Rothbard The Present State of Austrian Economics Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
"Austrian School and the Theory of Value, The"

Friedrich von Wieser
Updated 9/28/2007
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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...
"Misesian Case Against Keynes, The"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 1/15/2007
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"Reflections on Human Action after 50 Years"

Vernon L. Smith
Updated 1/15/2007
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"Methodology of Human Action, The"

Lawrence H. White
Updated 1/15/2007
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The Political Economy of William Graham Sumner: A Study in the History of Free-Enterprise Ideas

D.T. Armentano
Updated 1/15/2007
Dominick Thomas Armentano The Political Economy of William Graham Sumner: A Study in the History of Free-Enterprise Ideas Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Paper Capture Plug-in Capitalism...
Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy

Peter J. Boettke
Updated 1/15/2007
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"The Mishnah and Jewish Dirigisme"

Walter Block
Updated 1/15/2007
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