Books

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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Lessons for the Young Economist Teacher’s Manual

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02/29/2012 • Robert P. Murphy

This is the teacher’s manual to accompany the student textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist. The manual follows the student text very closely (the student text is needed separately, either in physical form or PDF). For each section within a...

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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 (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: 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

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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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Liberty Quotes: Peace and Prosperity

Tags: Media and Culture

05/26/2010 • Christopher Kalabus

A collection of historical, philosophical, political and legal quotations, assembled by Christopher Kalabus.

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Liberty, Dicta & Force

09/18/2018 • Louis E. Carabini

From the introduction: Advancing social ideas that do not demand obedience or compliance requires far more personal patience than simply forcing others to comply via the political ballot box. The widely held idea that dicta and force can serve a...

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Liberty, State, and Union

Tags: Introductory, Biographies, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Luigi Marco Bassani

Bassani shows that Jefferson was a special kind of libertarian. He did not believe in government, but for one or two areas. Nor did he believe in the “union” much less the nation state. He was a radical individualist who had no use for the...

Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery

Tags: Free Markets

05/28/1949 • F.A. Harper

F.A. Harper was a leader in the libertarian movement from the 1950s and onward. Here is his early manifesto (1949), in which he reveals a sophisticated understanding of free markets and freedom but had not yet, as he later did, come around...

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