Books

Our Money and the State

Tags: Big Government, Money and Banks, Taxes and Spending

08/25/1917 • Hartley Withers

This book grew out of a course of lectures on Public Finance delivered at the London School of Economics in February and March. The subject had already been dealt with ably and fully by writers who had made a special study of it; but the present...

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Ouroboros or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind

05/31/1926 • Garet Garrett

“One story of us is continuous. It is the story of our struggle to recapture the Garden of Eden, meaning by that a state of existence free from the doom of toil.” Garrett explores the consequences of advancing technology and industrial capacity...

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Out of Step

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1962 • Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov was a journalist of the Old Right with an extraordinary writing ability. He was also a top-notch intellectual figure who has been tragically neglected. This collection might be his best. Among the smashing essays here are:...

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Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

Tags: Introductory, U.S. Economy

07/01/1997 • Lowell E. Gallaway • Richard Vedder

Professors Vedder and Gallaway provide a comprehensive examination of unemployment in the last century of American economic history, using a persuasive mix of Austrian theory (on money and business cycle), empirical methods, and narrative...

Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

Tags: Introductory, U.S. Economy

07/01/1997 • Lowell E. Gallaway • Richard Vedder

Professors Vedder and Gallaway provide a comprehensive examination of unemployment in the last century of American economic history, using a persuasive mix of Austrian theory (on money and business cycle), empirical methods, and narrative...

Outlook for Freedom

06/21/1951 • 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, Read notes that the first step is evaluating one’s own...

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Panderer to Power

Tags: Introductory, Biographies, The Fed

03/08/2009 • Frederick J. Sheehan

Alan Greenspan, the man who as Fed chairman gave the U.S. its largest bubble ever, along with the most serious financial calamity in recent memory, is an enigma. Greenspan’s career is summed up in the title, Panderer to Power. This has been his...

Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

05/01/2010 • Percy L. Greaves, Jr.

A president faced an economic depression that wouldn’t go away, and a deeply disgruntled electorate. Not for the first or last time, the option of entering a war seemed politically appealing. How badly did FDR want a war and to what lengths was...

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Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War

Tags: U.S. Economy, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/29/1947 • George Morgenstern

George Morgenstern’s Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War has to be one of the bravest books ever written. It’s a wonder it came out at all, but it did, in 1947, just as the war ended and FDR had died. It argues that the bombing was not...

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People’s Pottage

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate

06/15/1953 • Garet Garrett

A time came when the only people who had ever been free began to ask: “What is freedom?” Who wrote its articles — the strong or the weak? Was it an absolute good? Could there be such a thing as unconditional freedom, short of anarchy? Given the...

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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

07/17/1953 • Harry Elmer Barnes

This book is a critical survey and appraisal of the development of American foreign policy during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and of its results, as they have affected the course of world history, the national interest of the United...

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Pictures of the Socialistic Future

Tags: Media and Culture

11/21/1893 • Eugen Richter

Written in 1893, it is a novel of life under socialism by Eugene Richter, a German liberal of the 19th century. Prophetic is not quite the word for this book. Richter saw with chilling clarity what would happen under socialistic control. The...

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Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets, Money and Banks

03/01/2008 • Ron Paul

When the economic history of our times is written, one man will emerge as the prophet of both the financial collapse and the disasters associated with government management: Ron Paul. He alone among the political class sounded the warnings and...

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Planned Chaos

Tags: Introductory

04/01/1961 • Ludwig von Mises

This new edition of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date — not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will. The title comes from Mises’s...

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Planning for Freedom; and Twelve other Essays and Addresses

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

05/15/1962 • Ludwig von Mises

An enduring collection of Mises’s essays, some popular and others scholarly, but always engaging and provocative. The first edition came out in 1952, and headlined the essay “Planning for Freedom,” which makes the point that the choice isn’t...

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Politically Impossible?

Tags: Free Markets

10/12/2010 • William H. Hutt

Should economists curb their rhetoric and prescriptions based on “political realities”? Should anyone attempt to conceal the truth about state intervention for fear of not fitting into the existing political culture? Many people answer yes to...

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Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, U.S. History

03/31/2009 • Robert P. Murphy

Robert Murphy puts together in one easy package the research of hundreds of scholars, showing that it was not capitalism that failed in 1929 but the boom times created by Fed credit expansion. Murphy takes aim at the Chicago School economists...

Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Tags: Featured

07/20/1970 • Murray N. Rothbard

What can government do to enhance social and economic well being? Nothing, says Murray N. Rothbard. Power and Market contains the proof. It will inoculate the reader against even the slightest temptation to invoke the state as a solution to any...

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Power and Privilege: Labor Unions in America

Tags: Legal System

10/21/1984 • Morgan O. Reynolds

This book reconsiders the economic role of labor unions by challenging fundamental assumptions. Anyone who seeks a comprehensive treatment of the effects of labor unions, as well as the legal and economic reasons for those effects, would do well...

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Power Unlimited: The Corruption of Union Leadership

11/22/1959 • Sylvester Petro

A report on the May 1957 “McClellan Committee Hearings”: the hearing of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Improper Activities in Labor-Management Relations. “The author has chosen well the individual cases which illustrate the methods...

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