Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit
Knight’s groundbreaking study of the role of the entrepreneur in economic life.
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Rollback
Rollback takes on both liberal and conservative conventions and their habits of mind. The objective of the work is dramatically ambitious. Woods writes with relentless precision, like an intellectual surgeon, to convince the reader that the...
Roosevelt’s Road to Russia
From the author: Randolph Bourne, one of the critical commentators of the Woodrow Wilson period, once wrote that war is like a wild elephant: it carries the rider where it desires, not where he may desire. Perhaps the historian predilected to...
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Rothbard A to Z
Compiled by Edward W. Fuller Edited with an Introduction by David Gordon Are you a Murray Rothbard fan? Do you love his writing? His clarity and style? His razor-sharp economic analysis? His penchant for slaying sacred cows? One of the most...
Salvos Against the New Deal
The Blue Eagle on the cover was the symbol that FDR demanded that all businesses display as a sign of adherence to wage and price controls. To Garrett, this summed up the whole of the New Deal: a catastrophic regimentation of national life that...
San Bernardino of Siena and Sant’Antonino of Florence: The Two Great Economic Thinkers of the Middle Ages
The subtitle of this work was not idly chosen: “the two great economic thinkers of the Middle Ages.” It is the key to Professor de Roover’s perceptive appraisal of the economic ideas and views on business ethics of San Bernardino da Siena, O.F.M...
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Satan’s Bushel
This dazzling work in economic fiction is the third of Garet Garrett’s novel trilogy, written and first published in 1924. Like the others, Satan’s Bushel is a splendid book, not just from the point of view of economics but also as a piece of...
Science, Technology, and Government
Preface by David Gordon When Murray Rothbard wrote “Science, Technology, and Government” in 1959, supporters of the free market needed to confront a challenge that remains relevant today. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched its “Sputnik”...
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Scientism and Values
From the author: The purpose of this paper is to consider social science and the problem of value within the over-all framework of “scientism and the study of man.” By “scientism” I mean here a boundary transgression or a misuse of otherwise...
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Secession, State, and Liberty
The essays in Secession, State & Liberty argue that the political impulse to secede—to attempt to separate from central government control—is a vital part of the Lockean classical-liberal tradition, one that emerges when national governments...
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Secrets About Money That Put You at Risk
The Basic Things About Money and Wealth You Must Know And Probably Do Not Why is Money… (a) the thing that most of us worry about the most, and (b) the thing that you understand and were educated in school about the least? Why do otherwise...
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Seeds of Progress
The mass of citizens who haven’t the slightest idea of what makes an economy fruitful or unfruitful, perform trillions of little things that result in an abundance of goods and services beneficial to millions of others whom they have no...
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Selected Writings of LVM, vol 2: Between the Two World Wars
The life and work of Ludwig von Mises is marked by the appearances of large treatises, on topics from money to methodology. But along the way, he also wrote many shorter articles and essays. The essays collected in this volume are from the...
Selected Writings on Economics
The science of Political Economy is, at present, in that state of imperfect development, which, though most attractive to the student who has made some proficiency, throws the greatest difficulty in the way of a beginner, and, consequently, of a...
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Shelley’s Radicalism: The Poet as Economist
[Chapter 4 from Literature & the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture, edited by Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox.] The real difference between Byron and Shelley is this; those who understand and love them rejoice that Byron died at...
Snoring as a Fine Art, and Twelve Other Essays
Here is that passage that explains why Albert Jay Nock called his book Snoring as a Fine Art: Snoring should be regarded as a fine art and respected accordingly. If this be admitted, I might suggest further that our civilization does not so...
Social Democracy
Much more so than any theoretical argument, it has been the disappointing experience with Russian-type socialism which has led to a constant decline in the popularity of orthodox Marxist socialism and has spurred the emergence and development of...
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Social Economics
Friedrich von Wieser’s Social Economics holds a place in the literature of the Austrian School such as John Stuart Mill’s Political Economy holds in the literature of classical theory. It sums up, systematizes, and extends the doctrines...
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Socialism and International Economic Order
This extraordinary book by Elisabeth Tamedly, as scholarly as it is passionate, argues that socialism, despite its internationalist aspirations, is not capable of accomplishing stable international peace and order. If we postulate a true...
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
Ludwig von Mises’s Socialism is the most important critical examination of socialism ever written. Socialism is most famous for Mises’s penetrating economic calculation argument. The book contains much more however. Mises not only shows the...
