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In Defense of Advertising by Jerry Kirkpatrick

In Defense of Advertising

Tags: Media and Culture
Jerry Kirkpatrick
In Defense of Advertising is a theoretical defense based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand and the economics of Ludwig von Mises. It argues that the proper foundations of advertising are reason, ethical egoism, and laissez-faire capitalism. Its...
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Individual Liberty by Benjamin R. Tucker

Individual Liberty

Benjamin R. Tucker
This essay, which is the clearest statement on the subject that has ever been produced, was written by Mr. Tucker in 1886, in response to an invitation from the editor of the North American Review to furnish him a paper on Anarchism. It was...
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Individualism and Economic Order by F. A. Hayek

Individualism and Economic Order

Friedrich A. Hayek
If you are looking to acquaint yourself with F.A. Hayek’s perspective on economic theory — beyond his business cycle and monetary studies of the inter-war years — this is the best source. The collection appeared in 1947, before he moved on...
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Inequality and Progress by George Harris

Inequality and Progress

George Harris
From the author: I believe that a service may be rendered by going back of various theories to certain fundamental facts of human nature and human development, and thus learning what may and what may not be taken for granted. Before social and...
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Instead of Dictatorship by Henry Hazlitt

Instead of Dictatorship

Henry Hazlitt
All over the world democracy as we have come to know it seems to be either in desuetude or in disrepute. Even in the United States, while all the outward forms of democracy have been retained, Congress since the beginning of the Roosevelt...
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Instead of Violence by Leonard Read

Instead of Violence

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets
Leonard E. Read
Written in 1951, this is one of Leonard Read’s earliest pamphlets on what he called “the philosophy of freedom.” As was often the case in Read’s essays on spreading the message of liberty, he notes that the first step is evaluating one’s own...
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Interest and Prices by Knut Wicksell

Interest and Prices

Knut Wicksell
It was this work by Swedish economist Wicksell that drew Mises’s attention to the effects of interest rate manipulation on the capital structure. This was the first to present the idea of the natural rate of interest, which Wicksell argued can...
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International Trade by Gottfried Haberler

International Trade

Tags: Global Economy
Gottfried Haberler
This book aims at a complete and systematic treatment of the main problems arising from international economic transactions, and it attempts, especially, to give a thorough theoretical analysis of these problems.
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Interpretations of the Wicksellian Idea by Robert Bradley

Interpretations of the Wicksellian Idea

Robert L. Bradley Jr.
It was Wicksell’s investigations into monetary equilibrium that intrigued some of the greatest economic minds of this century—D. A. Robertson, G. Myrdal, J. M. Keynes, L. von Mises and F. A. Hayek—during the tumultuous era of the Great...
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