Books

The Trade of Nations

Tags: Global Economy

02/15/1952 • Michael A. Heilperin

Originaly published in 1947, Heilperin’s The Trade of Nations represented — in the words of the original Preface — “an attempt to re-examine the problems of international trade, finance, and money, with special reference to the tasks of peace...

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The Tragedy of the Euro

Tags: Introductory, Featured, Financial Markets, Global Economy

12/08/2010 • Philipp Bagus

Philipp Bagus, professor of economics at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, is a young scholar with a large influence, having forecast all the problems with the Euro and having persuaded many economists on the Continent that this currency is...

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The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914

Tags: U.S. Economy, U.S. History

08/19/2011 • Robert Higgs

The Gilded Age, lasting from 1865 to World War I, was an era of economic growth never before seen in the history of the world. The standard of living of the modern age was born during this time of phenomenal transition. Lives lengthen. Wealth...

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The Trend of Economic Thinking

Tags: Introductory

06/01/1991 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Hayek was not only a seminal thinker in his own right. As a critic, commentator, guide, and teacher of ideas in general, he was a master of the history of ideas in general. This volume collects his writings on the ideas of others, and through...

The Turgot Collection

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate

03/17/2011 • A.R.J. Turgot

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781) was one of the foremost classical liberals of the 18th century. In the opinion of Murray Rothbard, he was one of the greatest economists of all time, and he served with distinction under Louis XVI as...

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The TVA Idea

Tags: Big Government, Taxes and Spending

06/15/1949 • Dean Russell

From the author: The issue of government ownership of the means of production is no longer open to discussion in Russia. That issue was decisively settled by revolution. The issue of government ownership of the means of production is still open...

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The Twenty-Year Revolution: from Roosevelt to Eisenhower

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

09/03/1954 • Chesly Manly

From the author: As Thomas Paine wrote in The Crisis, in 1776, “These are times that try men’s souls.” The question then was whether the American revolution could be saved. The·question now is whether the American Republic, born in a patriotic...

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The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

07/20/1962 • Ludwig von Mises

If Mises has an unheralded masterpiece, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science is it. There are two senses in which this book is indeed ultimate: it deals with the very core of economics as a science, and it is the last book that he wrote...

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The Underground Economy

Tags: Free Markets

07/20/1984 • Hans F. Sennholz

There is a bustling and shadowy world where jobs, services, and business transactions are conducted by word of mouth and paid for in cash to avoid scrutiny by government officials. It is called the “underground economy,” which is as old as...

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The Value of Money

Tags: Money and Banks

05/15/1917 • Benjamin Anderson

Benjamin Anderson, American Austrian, was among a handful of economists, led by Ludwig von Mises in his pioneering work The Theory of Money and Credit in 1912, who set out to integrate monetary theory into a general theory of value. Anderson...

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The Value of Money

Tags: Money and Banks

06/11/1932 • Tjardus Greidanus

From the author: In the first section the theories of a number of writers, who have brought the value problem either nearer to or further from its solution, will be successively treated. In view of the immense volume of the material in the...

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The Vampire Economy

Tags: World History

09/15/1939 • Günter Reimann

Here is a study of the actual workings of business under national socialism. Written in 1939, Reimann discusses the effects of heavy regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, national economic planning, and attacks on private...

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The Viennese School of Economics: A History of its Ideas, Proponents, and Institutions

03/13/2010 • Eugen-Maria Schulak • Herbert Unterköfler

The Viennese School, working on the assumption of the individual as the essential economic agent, and subsequently centering its research on individual preferences and on the intersubjective balancing of these preferences in the context of...

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The Viennese School of Economics: A History of its Ideas, Proponents, and Institutions

03/13/2010 • Eugen-Maria Schulak • Herbert Unterköfler

The Viennese School, working on the assumption of the individual as the essential economic agent, and subsequently centering its research on individual preferences and on the intersubjective balancing of these preferences in the context of...

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The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets, Legal System, The Police State

01/11/2016 • Laurence M. Vance

Alcohol abuse and heavy tobacco use are two of the leading causes of death in the United States. It seems rather ludicrous to advocate the outlawing of drugs and not the outlawing of alcohol and tobacco. (p. 11) Vance writes from a viewpoint...

The Way to Will Power

Tags: Education

06/15/1922 • Henry Hazlitt

What a thrilling little treasure this is, a completely rediscovered book by Henry Hazlitt from 1922 This is Hazlitt before he became an advocate of the Austrian School, and here he is not writing on economics but personal ethics as informed by...

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The Wild Wheel

Tags: Media and Culture, U.S. History

02/01/1952 • Garet Garrett

No one, but no one, tells the story of the Ford Motor Company like Garet Garrett. He loved machines and technology, and the markets that create and distribute them. He loved the car and its transforming effect on society. And he lived through it...

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The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt

Tags: Big Government, Free Markets

03/15/1993 • Henry Hazlitt • Hans F. Sennholz

The master economics teacher, the author of Economics in One Lesson, moves his readers to a deeper knowledge of a range of topics in this outstanding collection of essays. In the late 1990s, Hans Sennholz carefully selected 30 of Hazlitt’s...

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The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt

Tags: Big Government, Free Markets

03/15/1993 • Henry Hazlitt • Hans F. Sennholz

The master economics teacher, the author of Economics in One Lesson, moves his readers to a deeper knowledge of a range of topics in this outstanding collection of essays. In the late 1990s, Hans Sennholz carefully selected 30 of Hazlitt’s...

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The Wisdom of the Stoics: Selections from Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius

10/01/1984 • Henry Hazlitt • Frances Hazlitt

The Stoic philosophy was founded by Zeno, a Phoenician (c. 320 - c. 250 B.C.), but nothing by him has come down to us except a few fragmentary quotations. He was followed by Cleanthes, then by Chrysippus, and still later by Panaetius and...

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