Mises Search

The problem of externalities and efficiency is cited relentlessly in mainstream literature as the great rationale for government intervention. The Austrian School, however, rooted in an understanding of the competitive process, takes another approach: viewing these supposed problems as having market-based solutions. In Efficiency and Externalities

Here is a magisterial book for today and the ages, one that inspires awe for both the subject and the author who accomplished the seemingly impossible: a sweeping intellectual biography, constructed from original sources, of the 20th century’s most astonishing dissident intellectual. It has the apparatus of a great scholarly work but the drama of

This speech by Lew Rockwell was delivered at the Heritage Foundation, and even at the time was regarded as the best single overview of the teachings of the Austrian school, its contribution to the history of ideas, and the political implications of Austrian economic theory. Economics, wrote Joseph Schumpeter, is “a big omnibus which contains many

Ludwig von Mises was the greatest economist of the twentieth century, but often readers are reluctant to tackle his major works. They fear that they will be unable to follow that abstract and relentless theoretical progression of, e.g., Human Action and The Theory of Money and Credit . For readers like this, and for anyone else who admires Mises,

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 also understand the super peculiar nature of what the Chinese called communism: it is as much or more

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 in the Austrian tradition of economics, led him to disagree with the mainstream of American history in

The anti-capitalists are still with us, and how. Robert Murphy has decided to give them an in-your-face economics education that they won’t forget — ever. His approach comes from years of teaching undergraduates and dealing with the most common errors. He also draws from his teaching experience at the Mises University to offer an Austrian

If you love the idea of free-market anarchism, hate it, or are just intrigued that so many are steeped in the rigor and logic of the prospects of a free society without the state, this is the collection that gives you all you need to find your way around this burgeoning line of thought.

The key to understanding how society comes to be, works without central direction, and develops into a thriving civilization can be understood through the least understood idea in economics: the division of labor through comparative advantage. It is central to not only Mises’s conception of the social order but also to the entire classical-liberal

  Here is the book for the Age of Rothbard, precisely the primer that is needed at a time when his influence—as the most radical and compelling intellectual force in the second half of the 20th century—is higher than during any time during his lifetime. And so this book is a landmark in Rothbardiana: the first, rigorous intellectual biography of