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In Defense of “Extreme Apriorism”

03/22/2018 Murray N. Rothbard

[Murray Rothbard wrote this in 1956. It originally appeared in the Southern Economic Journal (January 1957) and was reprinted in Rothbard’s, The Logic of Action One (1997) and Economic Controversies (2011).] The stimulating methodological...

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In Defense of Advertising

Tags: Media and Culture

05/31/1994 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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In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918-1938

Tags: Corporate Welfare, U.S. Economy

07/29/1997 Butler Shaffer

This extremely important study by Butler Shaffer—professor of law and economist—will change the way you think of the relationship between the state and business. It makes a deep inquiry into the attitudes of business leaders toward competition...

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Inclined To Liberty: The Futile Attempt to Suppress the Human Spirit

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory

11/14/2008 Louis E. Carabini

“No one should be allowed to own a yacht.” “The salaries of company executives are too high” “No one should be allowed to inherit wealth.” We are surrounded every day by anti-capitalist clichés. We encounter them in casual conversation...

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Income Tax: The Root of All Evil

Tags: Taxes and Spending

07/20/1954 Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov was an extraordinary thinker and writer, and hugely influential in the 1950s. He wrote what became an American classic arguing that the income tax, more than any other legislative change in American history, made it possible to...

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Individual Liberty

08/13/1926 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

03/16/1948 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

10/13/1972 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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Inflation: Its Causes and Cures

Tags: Money and Banks

06/17/1960 Gottfried Haberler

The objective of the present study is to give a rounded picture and to emphasize fundamental issues which seem in danger of being obscured by the great mass that has been and is being written on inflation.

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Insatiable Government

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

05/01/2008 Garet Garrett

The title essay alone reveals the importance of this book. It was written in 1932 as a thrashing assault on the Hoover administration for its big spending, tax regulating, and inflating program that the author said would make the depression...

Instead of Dictatorship

10/28/1933 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

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

06/22/1951 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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Institutional Constraints in New York and New England: Free Banking and Monetary Crises, 1811–1863

Tags: Money and Banks

07/01/1988 Karen Y. Palasek

The nineteenth-century American free bank experience is typically considered an example of unregulated banking that led to chaos, fraud, and bank failures. Palasek's study shows that it was in fact a strictly regulated system whose own regulations caused its downfall.

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Intellectuals and the Marketplace

Tags: Free Markets, Media and Culture

01/09/2019 Ralph Raico

[ Chapter 3 of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School. This chapter is adapted from a paper delivered at the general meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society, in Cannes, September, 1994.] Bankrolling Adam Smith? Ronald Coase, Nobel Laureate in...

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Tags: Global Economy

11/08/1965 Fritz Machlup

The Aims of this Book are threefold. One of the objectives is to reconsider those parts of the theories of international trade and capital movements which can be profitably analyzed with the technique of the money-income multiplier. Furthermore...

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