Books

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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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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The Wizards of Ozymandias

Tags: World History

05/25/2012 • Butler Shaffer

Butler Shaffer has, over the course of several years, written 51 wonderful essays observing the dissolution of Western culture and civilization. They have been assembled in the The Wizards of Ozymandias a captivating work full of entertaining...

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The World at War

12/06/2024 • Ralph Raico

To understand war, you also have to understand economics. Ralph Raico’s lecture “The World at War” is a masterpiece.

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The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 1: The Major Works

Tags: Free Markets, U.S. Economy

06/15/1978 • F.A. Harper

From the Introduction by Paul Poirot: In these collected writings of F. A. Harper, concerned with liberty in the broadest sense, are to be found some of his conclusions. But the reader will also find throughout his works a series of carefully...

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The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 2: Shorter Essays

Tags: Free Markets, Media and Culture

10/13/1978 • F.A. Harper

In this 1979 book, Harper presents essays on Economics, Social Philosophy, and Humane Studies.

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Then Truth Will Out

Tags: Intermediate

10/15/1971 • Leonard E. Read

Civilization can mean nothing less than a society of civilized people. So how is a civilized person to be identified? A civilized person must recognize that man is at once a social and an individualistic being. Thus, he must not only be self...

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Theorie des geldes und der Umlaufsmittel

09/04/1912 • Ludwig von Mises

Here is the first edition, 1912, of Mises’s great book translated as The Theory of Money and Credit. This book changed monetary economics forever.

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Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution

01/01/1957 • Ludwig von Mises

Like Hayek, Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek’s attempts, Mises’s writings on these matters have received less attention than they deserve...

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Theory of Money and Fiduciary Media

01/17/2013 • Jörg Guido Hülsmann

As the Federal Reserve and other central banks run wild, it’s time to reconsider a great work by Ludwig von Mises that is as fresh and relevant today as when it appeared a century ago. The first of Mises’s major works, Theory of Money and Credit...

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Thinking as a Science

Tags: Education

03/15/1920 • Henry Hazlitt

It’s incredible that this 1916 tutorial on how to think, by none other than Henry Hazlitt, would still hold up after all these years. But here’s why. Hazlitt was largely self-educated. He read voraciously. He trained himself to be a great...

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This Bread is Mine

05/26/1960 • Robert LeFevre

From the author: A number of definitions of socialism are currently in vogue. Since there are various ways of defining this most important term, something other than a definition is in order. What is desirable is a framework of reference in...

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Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages

01/08/1966 • Nassau W. Senior

The labourers form the mass of every community. The inquiry into the causes affecting wages is, therefore, the most important branch of political economy. In the following Lectures the author proposes, first, to explain some ambiguities in the...

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Time and Money: The Universals of Macroeconomic Theorizing

Tags: Booms and Busts

05/15/1984 • Roger W. Garrison

Professor Roger Garrison is a leader in the field of Austrian macroeconomics, and has had a burning passion for his whole career to present Austrian business cycle theory in terms that mainstream economists can understand and identify. This book...

Time Will Run Back

Tags: Media and Culture

06/15/1966 • Henry Hazlitt

Here is a splendid novel by Henry Hazlitt, first published in 1951 and revised in 1966. The plot line explores the economic theories of capitalism and socialism. It begins in a fully socialist society in which the new leader, who finds himself...

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Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium: Exploration of Austrian Themes

11/02/1979 • Mario J. Rizzo

The conceptualization of man as engaging in purposeful activity is inconceivable apart from the categories of cause and effect. Unless the means chosen can affect the ends desired in some way, there is no point at all to human action. The...

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To Free or Freeze

05/15/1972 • Leonard E. Read

That millions claim “the last word” on matters of political economy, and disagree as much as they do, suggests that no one has more than scratched the surface.

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Too Much Government, Too Much Taxation

Tags: Big Government, Taxes and Spending

07/22/1923 • Charles Normon Fay

From the author: This book is written to convince others, as I myself am convinced, quietly and without hysteria, that already, after but 146 years of national life, we Americans must face the same old fight with Too Much Government and Too Much...

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Toward a Libertarian Society

06/06/2014 • Walter Block

Walter Block has for decades been one of the most effective and indefatigable defenders of libertarianism. One feature in his writing stands out, from his classic Defending the Undefendable to the present. He consistently applies the principles...

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