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Subject: Methodological-Foundations: 25 records

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...
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...
Introduction to Austrian Economics, An

Thomas C. Taylor
Updated 5/17/2011
For the serious student, this exposition of the essentials of Austrian economics is excellent. Taylor discusses all the fundamental aspects of Austrian thought, from subjectivism and marginal utility to inflation and the business cycle. This new and...
Economic Science and the Austrian Method

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 4/8/2011
A definitive defense of the methodological foundations of Austrian economics. Hoppe sets the praxeological view (economics as a purely deductive science) against positivism, while taking the critics of the Austrian approach head on. Hans-Hermann H...
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...
Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, The

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 12/3/2010
If Mises has an unheralded masterpiece, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science is it. There are two senses in which this book is indeed ultimate: it deals with the very core of economics as a science, and it is the last book that he wrote. For t...
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...
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...
An Introduction to Economic Reasoning

David Gordon
Updated 5/17/2010
This high-school text, published in May 2000, is aimed at teaching the intelligent young reader how to think about economic problems in a manner consistent with the Austrian School tradition. Its chapters on action, preference, demand and supply, val...
Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics

George Reisman
Updated 5/17/2010
George Reisman was a student of Mises's, a translator of his work, and, as he demonstrates in this outstanding treatise, a leading theorist in the Misesian tradition. This mammoth exposition deals with the method and theory of economics, and part...
The Legacy of Max Weber

Ludwig M. Lachmann
Updated 5/15/2010
Ludwig Lachmann took a strong interest in the history of economic thought, particularly as it pertained to methodology. While he would not have claimed to be an Austrian in the Misesian tradition, his writings have influenced Austrians. Here is his s...
Epistemological Problems of Economics

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 4/20/2010
"The characteristic feature of this age of destructive wars and social disintegration is the revolt against economics." So says Ludwig von Mises in his most thorough defense of the method and scope of economic science. In this treatise,...
Methodological Individualism

Joseph Schumpeter
Updated 1/3/2009
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Economic Doctrine and Method: An Historical Sketch

Joseph Schumpeter
Updated 3/3/2008
Joseph Schumpeter (1912) Economic Doctrine and Method...
Essays in European Economic Thought

Louise Sommer
Updated 1/29/2008
Louis Sommer Essays in European Economic Thought...
Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium: Exploration of Austrian Themes

Mario J. Rizzo
Updated 11/2/2007
Mario J. Rizzo Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium...
Notes on Epistemology

John J. Toohey
Updated 5/25/2007
John J. Toohey Notes on Epistemology Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
The Nature and Significance of Economic Science

Lionel Robbins
Updated 1/16/2007
Lord Robbins An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science...
Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, An

Lionel Robbins
Updated 1/15/2007
This book by Lionel Robbins first appeared in 1932 as an outstanding English-language statement of the Misesian view of economic method, namely that economics is a social science and must advance its propositions by means of deductive reasoning and n...
"Austrian Theory of the Marginal Use and of Ordinal Marginal Utility, The"

J. H. McCulloch
Updated 1/15/2007
J. Huston McCulloch The Austrian Theory of the Marginal Use and of Ordinal Marginal Utility ð]h...
"On Value Freedom in Economics"

Walter Block
Updated 1/15/2007
Walter Block VALUE FREEDOM IN ECONOMICS. Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
Probleme der Wertlehre

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 1/15/2007
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Die Okonomifschen Kategorien und die Organisation der Wirtschaft

Richard von Strigl
Updated 1/15/2007
Richard Strigl Die Okonomifdhen Kategorien und die Organisation der Wirtfhaft...
The Ongoing Methodenstreit of the Austrian School

Jesus Huerta de Soto
Updated 1/15/2007
Reviewed by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Mark Thornton Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Paper Capture Plug-in Libertarian Legalism...

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