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Subject: Interdisciplinary-Studies: 34 records

The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 3/22/2012
In 1954, after a lifetime of serious theoretical work in economic science, Mises turned his attention to one of the great puzzles of all time: discovering why the intellectuals hate capitalism. The result is this socio-psycho-cultural analysis inform...
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...
International Economic Disintegration

Wilhelm Röpke
Updated 1/9/2012
Röpke wrote this book in the late 30s, and it was published in 1942. He explains how the world unraveled the 1930s from a combination of protectionism and monetary destruction. And while his analysis is robust, he also relays what seems to be an...
The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Updated 12/20/2011
This exceeding rare book is by one of the great men of the 20th century. Written soon after his immigration to the United States, he signed the book "Francis Stuart Campbell" because he was a refugee from Austria and didn't want to enda...
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 11/3/2011
New Pocket Edition! In For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for using state power against people. Liber...
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 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...
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Etienne de la Boetie
Updated 7/27/2011
States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant -- when consent is withdrawn. This is the thesis of this thrilling book. Murray Rothbard writes a classic introduction to one of the great political essays in the histo...
The Private Production of Defense

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 6/28/2011
Hans Hoppe takes on the most difficult subject in economic and political theory: the provision of security. He argues that the service is better provided by free markets than government, while addressing a hundred counter-arguments. Here we have an i...
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...
The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton

Ralph Raico
Updated 5/24/2011
The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton Forty years ago, historian Ralph Raico completed his dissertation under the direction of F.A. Hayek at the University of Chicago. Its title masks its power a...
The Law

Frederic Bastiat
Updated 5/17/2011
How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in jail? These are among the most intriguing issues...
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...
Out of Step

Frank Chodorov
Updated 3/11/2011
Frank Chodorov was a journalist of the Old Right with an extraordinary writing ability. He was also a top-notch intellectual figure who has been tragically neglected. This collection might be his best. Among the smashing essays here are: "Isolat...
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...
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...
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 6/1/2010
Rothbard vs. the Crazies All evidence points to the superiority of the libertarian ideal—private property, capitalism, international trade, laissez-faire—but something is keeping the world from embracing it. That something is wrong-headed ideolog...
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...
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 5/25/2010
The cover is from a Greek portrayal of the reality of war -- a fitting portrayal too of life under socialism, in which brute force is the only way to secure control over resources essential to life. This edition is the original as published by...
The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue

Henry Hazlitt
Updated 5/15/2010
When Henry Hazlitt published this exceedingly rare book, he was finishing up a three-year position at The Nation as literary critic, and preparing to accept the position as H.L. Mencken's successor at American Mercury. He was struggling with...
The Market for Liberty

Morris and Linda Tannehill
Updated 5/14/2010
Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and labored discipline. But other classics are written in a white heat during the moment of discovery, with prose that shines forth like the sun pouring into the window of a time...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Blue Wound

Garet Garrett
Updated 8/28/2007
Garet Garrett The Blue Wound Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

Harry Elmer Barnes
Updated 7/16/2007
Harry Elmer Barnes Perputual War for Perpetual Peace...
Society Without Coercion

Jarret B. Wollstein
Updated 7/10/2007
Jarret B. Wollstein Society Without Coercion...
"New Institutional Economics"

Peter G. Klein
Updated 1/15/2007
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"Austrian Capital Theory and the Undeveloped Areas: An Overview

Sudha R. Shenoy
Updated 1/15/2007
Shenoy Capital and Developing Nations Adobe Acrobat 6.0...
"Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System":

Walter Block
Updated 1/15/2007
William Enterprising Education: The Case for Doing Away with the Public School System Acrobat Distiller 3.01 voor Windows...
Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections

Roderick T. Long
Updated 1/15/2007
Roderick T. Long Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections Acrobat Distiller 6.0 (Windows)...

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