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Lectures on Political Economy by Knut Wicksell

Lectures on Political Economy, Volume II: Money

01/02/1935 Knut Wicksell

Knut Wicksell was a Swedish economist who had an enormous influence on Austrian economics and Ludwig von Mises. This might be his most compelling book: lectures delivered over the course of an entire career, covering both general and specific...

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Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

08/06/2014 Murray N. Rothbard

The Conservative has long been marked, whether he knows it or not, by long-run pessimism: by the belief that the long-run trend, and therefore Time itself, is against him, and hence the inevitable trend runs toward left-wing statism at home and...

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Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse

Tags: World History

07/15/1974 Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn gives us in Leftism a remarkable defense of classical liberal and libertarian thought, based on his enormous learning in the twenty languages he could read. Kuehnelt-Leddihn, an Austrian aristocrat, became in his long...

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Les Illusions du Protectionnisme et de l`Autarcie

01/01/1938 Ludwig von Mises

The French version of Mises’s The Disintegration of the International Division of Labour.

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Less than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy

03/16/1997 George A. Selgin

In several countries, allowing for some positive bias in popular inflation measures, zero inflation itself is now close to being the status quo. That is a great accomplishment in its own right. But its full benefits will not be grasped unless we...

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Lessons for the Young Economist

Tags: Featured, Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Education

03/10/2011 Robert P. Murphy

Teacher’s Manual available here. Lessons for the Young Economist is easily the best introduction to economics for the young reader—because it covers both pure economic theory and also how markets work (the domain of most introductory books).T...

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Let Freedom Reign

Tags: Education

10/11/1969 Leonard E. Read

Leonard E. Read discusses the importance of freedom as a foundation for finding the answers to the problems induced by central planning and “master minding”. He suggests: “Freedom has come by accident, the result of desperation rather than a...

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Let’s Abolish Government

02/26/1972 Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) is the American individualist anarchist and legal theorist known mainly for setting up a commercial post office in competition with the government and thereby being shut down. But he was also the author of some of...

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Letters to Mr. Malthus

04/22/1821 Jean-Baptiste Say

J.B. Say battled the prophet of doom in this rare series of letters that explain how economic growth occurs without destabilizing economic forces. He writes with passion and personality, anticipating so many Austrian insights. An extra treat in...

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Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition

05/21/1927 Ludwig von Mises

This is Mises’s classic statement in defense of a free society, one of the last statements of the old liberal school and a text from which we can continue to learn. It has been the conscience of a global movement for liberty for 80 years. This...

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Liberalismus

Tags: Free Markets

05/21/1927 Ludwig von Mises

The German edition of Mises’s classic Liberalism. The program of liberalism... if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production... All the other demands of liberalism result...

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Libertad o Socialismo by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Libertad O Socialismo (Liberty or Socialism)

03/06/2009 Hans-Hermann Hoppe

A student and colleague of Murray N. Rothbard, Hoppe combines the Austrian School of economics, Aristotelian-Thomistic natural law, and a foreign policy of non-intervention into a systematic defense of human freedom.

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Libertarian Anarchism by Roderick T. Long

Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections

Tags: Legal System

07/20/2005 Roderick T. Long

This short monograph is from an informal talk presented at the 2004 Mises University, and transcribed by Revi N. Nair.

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Libertarian Anarchy: Against the State

Tags: Introductory, Big Government

01/11/2016 Gerard N. Casey

Political philosophy is dominated by a myth, the myth of the necessity of the state. The state is considered necessary for the provision of many things, but primarily for peace and security. Gerard Casey argues that social order can be...

Libertarianism Today

Tags: Media and Culture

06/01/2010 Jacob H. Huebert

The drive for liberty, whether from the left or right, is the underlying impulse. This book tells you where it is all headed and why. It might seem easy to write an overview of libertarianism. If so, why do so many attempts fall short? They...

Liberty and Property

Tags: Introductory, Featured, Free Markets

10/15/1958 Ludwig von Mises

In 1958, the Mont Pelerin Society was entering a difficult period in which its intellectual lights were drifting away from liberalism of the old school. Ludwig von Mises used his speech that year to explain why this was a terrible trend. He didn...

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Liberty and the Great Libertarians

Tags: Biographies

02/26/1913 Charles T. Sprading

In 1913, Charles T. Sprading (1871-1959) wrote a book of remarkable prescience that anticipated the systematic development of an American libertarian tradition. He called it Liberty and the Great Libertarians. What he provided was a biography...

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Liberty Defined

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 Ron Paul

Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It...

Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time

Tags: World History

03/02/1952 Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Sometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the idea was always vague. In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political...

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