Books

George Washington: An Image and Its Influence

Tags: U.S. History

12/15/2017 • David Gordon

George Washington took office as president in 1789 with an asset of inestimable value. People viewed him as the hero of the American Revolution who, disdaining power, had like the Roman general Cincinnatus returned home to his farm. When he...

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Gertrude Coogan’s Bluff: Greenback Populism as Conservative Economics

09/24/2010 • Gary North

Gertrude Coogan is not a household name. She never was. But, because of recent political and economic events, her ideas are getting a hearing in conservative circles. This monograph is North’s attempt — in the phrase of B-Westerns in the late...

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Getting Libertarianism Right

09/28/2018 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Introduction by Sean Gabb The writings collected in this book are mostly addresses given in Bodrum to the Property and Freedom Society, of which Professor Hoppe is both Founder and President. I was fortunate to hear them read out to the...

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Give Me Liberty

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History, World History

06/07/1954 • Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane in her youth supported the Russian Revolution, but a trip to Russia quickly dispelled her illusions. She realized that the mass politics of socialism necessarily suppressed individual freedom. America was founded on a different...

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God of the Machine

Tags: Legal System, World History

11/06/1943 • Isabel Paterson

Paterson’s best known work is her 1943 book The God of the Machine, which at that time was the preeminent individualist manifesto. In Reason, Stephen Cox writes: The God of the Machine remains a classic of individualist thought. But it is not a...

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God’s Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1932 • John T. Flynn

In 1932, John T. Flynn had begun to rethink his old-style “progressivism” to develop intellectually into a defender of markets as against the regimentation of government management. A first product of these steps is this classic and...

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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

Tags: Biographies

09/01/2009 • Jennifer Burns

FROM THE PUBLISHER: Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and...

Gold and the Gold Standard

Tags: Global Economy

06/03/1944 • Edwin Walter Kemmerer

Edwin Walter Kemmerer is one of the unsung heroes of the 20th century. A professor of economics at Princeton, he was known as the “money doctor” between the wars, helping countries to establish and maintain strong currencies between 1923 and...

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Gold Is Money

Tags: Money and Banks

06/15/1975 • Hans F. Sennholz

This book summarily rejects the statist monetary orthodoxy. Its nine writers are in full agreement that money is not the product of a legislative act, but the inevitable result of man’s division of labor and exchange economy. Wherever...

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Gold, Peace, and Prosperity

Tags: Money and Banks

05/21/1981 • Ron Paul

This book is a quick read that covers the whole history of monetary destruction, providing information that most people have never heard or thought about. In that sense, it is the perfect conversation starter, and it could inspire more reading...

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Good Money

Tags: Introductory, Money and Banks, World History

07/14/2008 • George A. Selgin

This is the true and remarkable story of private coinage and banking in Britain in the early years of the Industrial Revolution (1775-1850). Making money was a business in demand. The needs of business for small denominations were changing...

Great French Writers: Turgot

Tags: Biographies

04/30/1888 • Leon Say

For an those who have related to us his life, who have collected with a pious care his most trifling sayings, his slightest writings, Turgot is a great mind, one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century, the greatest, perhaps, next to...

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Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

12/08/2010 • Ralph Raico

The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in sheep’s clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights. In the...

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Hamilton’s Curse

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

11/21/2008 • Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Court historians have long praised the glories of Alexander Hamilton as the greatest of the founding fathers. This view is back in vogue as U.S. economic policy becomes ever more statist. In this work, Professor Thomas DiLorenzo provides the...

Harangue

Tags: Media and Culture

06/15/1927 • Garet Garrett

Garet Garrett wrote one last, and truly spectacular, novel called Harangue (The Trees Said to the Bramble Come Reign Over Us). The words are from the Bible (Judges 9:15, and the metaphor here refers to the strange penchant of the rich to fund...

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Having My Way

Tags: Introductory

04/11/1974 • Leonard E. Read

Who are we as individuals? How does a possible Creator or Source fit into the subject of human liberty? Leonard E. Read delves into these topics that have been pondered about throughout the centuries. Together with quotes from timeless authors...

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Henry Hazlitt: A Giant of Liberty

Tags: Introductory, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Henry Hazlitt

This bibliography contains more than 6,000 entries, with books annotated by Murray N. Rothbard, in a near-complete listing of articles by this Austrian journalist. It identifies for the first time unsigned editorials in the New York Times (1934...

Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1969 • Ludwig von Mises

This 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 early...

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History of American Socialisms

08/04/1961 • John Humphrey Noyes

From the author: The object of this book is to help the study of Socialism by the inductive method. It is, first and chiefly, a collection of facts; and the attempts at interpretation and generalization which are interspersed, are secondary and...

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History of Crises Under the National Banking System

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

10/13/1968 • O.M.W. Sprague

This detailed description of the series of financial crises which occurred from the establishment of the National Banking System up to its replacement by the Federal Reserve System includes an analysis of the causes of financial market failures...

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