Books

100% Money

07/29/2019 • Irving Fisher

Endorsed by F. A Hayek, it is one of the most important works on 100 percent banking ever written. Perhaps today’s economists at the Fed should take a look. From the preface to the first edition: The revival now of this ancient 100% system, with...

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33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, U.S. History

07/10/2007 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Can you really understand American history without understanding economics? Thomas Woods doesn’t think so, which is why he wrote this fabulous, pithy, provocative, and supremely enlightening book. And guess what? His research, and his training...

Lessons for the Young Economist Teacher’s Manual

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Education

02/29/2012 • Robert P. Murphy

This is the teacher’s manual to accompany the student textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist. The manual follows the student text very closely (the student text is needed separately, either in physical form or PDF). For each section within a...

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A Bull in China

Tags: Introductory, Global Economy

06/01/2007 • Jim Rogers

Jim Rogers first went to China in 1984 and he has been tracking it ever since. He saw what was happening there long before the news hit the headlines. He knows its industries and opportunities. He understands the state and how it works there. He...

A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson, and Roosevelt

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

06/16/2006 • John V. Denson

The horrors of the twentieth century could hardly have been predicted in the nineteenth century, which saw the eighteenth century end with the American Revolution bringing about the creation of the first classical liberal government in history...

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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Two Volumes

Tags: Politics, Property Rights

05/31/2023 • William Leggett

A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, selected and arranged, with a preface, by Theodore Sedgwick, in two volumes. (1839) This collection provides important example of populist laissez-faire opinion from the Jacksonian Era...

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A Critique of Interventionism

01/01/1929 • Ludwig von Mises

In the sequence of Mises’s books concerning policy, this book followed Socialism, and was the first to present a new theory of interventionism. In Mises’s view, interventionism is an inherently unstable policy because it creates new dislocations...

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A Foreign Policy for Americans

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

12/18/1952 • Robert A. Taft

Written in 1951, Taft argued that the freedom of the people of the United States was — as it is now — in serious danger from the foreign and domestic policies of the political class . From the foreword: Today we face threats to our liberty and...

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A Foreign Policy of Freedom

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

12/28/2010 • Ron Paul

There is one and only one voice in Congress for a foreign policy of freedom, and it belongs to Ron Paul, who has stood alone for freedom for many years. Ron is the seemingly impossible: a voice for reason and truth in a den of thieves. A Foreign...

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A Free-Market Monetary System and The Pretense of Knowledge

Tags: Money and Banks

01/15/1974 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Here are two of Hayek’s greatest essays in one volume. The book begins with Hayek’s most excellent essay on money. It is also his most radical. He plainly says that central banks cannot be reformed. There can never be sound money so long as they...

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A Genuine Gold Dollar vs. the Federal Reserve

Tags: The Fed

01/20/2016 • Murray N. Rothbard

A Genuine Gold Dollar In recent years an increasing number of economists have understandably become disillusioned by the inflationary record of fiat currencies. They have therefore concluded that leaving the government and its central bank power...

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A History of American Currency

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/07/1874 • William Graham Sumner

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...

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A Humane Economy

Tags: Media and Culture

02/15/1960 • Wilhelm Röpke

A Humane Economy offers an understandable and compelling explanation of how economies operate. Over and over, the great Swiss economist stresses one simple point: You cannot separate economic principles from human behavior.

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A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property

Tags: Featured, Legal System

01/07/2014 • Butler Shaffer

What is the status of intellectual property? Are patents and copyrights legitimate in a free society? Butler Shaffer is a distinguished libertarian legal theorist who has for many years taught at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. In this...

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A Man for Many Seasons

Tags: Biographies

10/18/2019 • Bettina Bien Greaves

Henry Hazlitt, author, journalist, editor, reviewer, economist, has written or edited 18 books and countless articles, columns, editorials, and book reviews. He has gained renown in at least three areas: as a popularizer of sound economic...

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A New History of Leviathan

Tags: Big Government, Corporate Welfare, War and Foreign Policy

08/17/1972 • Murray N. Rothbard • Ronald Radosh

The essays in this book reveal how and in what manner the corporate state developed in twentieth-century America. They show how a sophisticated group of large corporate reformers managed to replace a freely competitive economy and make a new...

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A New History of Leviathan

Tags: Big Government, Corporate Welfare, War and Foreign Policy

08/17/1972 • Murray N. Rothbard • Ronald Radosh

The essays in this book reveal how and in what manner the corporate state developed in twentieth-century America. They show how a sophisticated group of large corporate reformers managed to replace a freely competitive economy and make a new...

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A Realistic Libertarianism

02/10/2017 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

From 2014’s speech “A Realistic Libertarianism.” The following is an excerpt. The full version is available in pdf and html. Libertarianism is logically consistent with almost any attitude toward culture, society, religion, or moral principle...

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A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law

07/20/1974 • William H. Hutt

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’s...

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A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline

Tags: Advanced

03/05/2015 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline is nothing less than a concise revisionist history of man, skillfully presented by Dr. Hoppe. He addresses the rise of family structures, the development of private property, social evolution prior to...

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