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A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru by Louis Baudin

A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru

Tags: World History
Louis Baudin
Ludwig von Mises: There is no doubt that this book, A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru, is of the highest importance for the historian, for the ethnologist, and for the economist. But in establishing this fact one has not yet fully...
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A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Here is Hans Hoppe’s first treatise in English — actually his first book in English — and the one that put him on the map as a social thinker and economist to watch. He argued that there are only two possible archetypes in economic affairs...
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A Torrent of Laws

Tags: Legal System
Henry Hazlitt
All over the United States, if you are reading this in a daylight hour, there is a ceaseless downpour of new laws. Every day some of us, somewhere, are being encumbered or shackled by still more restrictions. There are just too many laws. But...
A Treatise on Currency and Banking by Condy Raguet

A Treatise on Currency and Banking

Tags: Booms and Busts
Condy Raguet
This remarkable hard-money treatise appeared in 1840. It is by Condy Raguet (1784-1842), a noted Pennsylvania politician and economist who worked as a merchant in several Latin American countries. He was wholly dedicated to free trade, the free...
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Treatise on Political Economy by J. B. Say

A Treatise on Political Economy

Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) has been described as a revolutionary, an author of scholarly books and popular tracts, a social philosopher, a successful entrepreneur and a remarkable Renaissance man. Above all, however, he was a great economist...
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A Treatise on Political Economy

A Treatise on Political Economy

Destutt Tracy
The neglect of Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836) in the history of political economy is both strange and tragic. He was, after all, Thomas Jefferson’s number one favorite economist, the thinker who influenced him and, arguably...
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Acting Man and Economics

Acting Man and Economics

Ludwig von Mises
People generally believe that economics is of interest only to businessmen, bankers, and the like and that there is a separate economics for every group, segment of society, or country. As economics is the latest science to have been developed...
After Seven Years by Raymond Moley

After Seven Years

Tags: Biographies
Raymond Moley
Written by an adviser to FDR who helped assemble the president’s “brain trust”, After Seven Years is a must-read for anyone claiming to be a student of the New Deal. Written in the midst of man-made economic calamity, Moley supplies an insider’s...
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Against Intellectual Propery by Stephan Kinsella

Against Intellectual Property

Tags: Legal System
Stephan Kinsella
Would a libertarian society recognize patents as legitimate? What about copyright? In Against Intellectual Property, Stephan Kinsella, a patent attorney of many years’ experience, offers his response to these questions. Kinsella is altogether...
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Against The Tide by Wilhelm Röpke

Against the Tide

Tags: World History
Wilhelm Röpke
Wilhelm Röpke was schooled in the tradition of the Austrians and made enormous contributions to the study of political institutions. Here we have collected some of his most powerful anti-Keynesian writings, which, in particular, underscore what...
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tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

Tags: U.S. History
Ralph Raico
From the Foreword by David Gordon ... Much of Ralph Raico’s scholarly work centers on French classical liberalism. We are thus especially fortunate to be able to publish an essay by him on one of the greatest French classical liberals of the...
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