Books

The Coming Aristocracy

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts

05/15/1969 • Leonard E. Read

The motivation that drives man toward excellence comes from within. The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, gives us the clue: “Man is on earth as in an egg. Now, you can’t go on being a good egg forever; you must either hatch or rot.” The oncoming...

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The Common Sense of Political Economy, 2 Volumes

01/01/1933 • Philip H. Wicksteed

This book is intended primarily as a popular but systematic exposition of the “marginal” theory of Economics.

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The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine, 2 Volumes

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History

05/04/1945 • Thomas Paine

The writings of Thomas Paine helped shape the American nation and left their imprint on democratic thought all over the world. This two-volume set represents an attempt to make these writings available to both the general reader and the student...

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The Concise Guide To Economics

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Featured

06/15/1997 • Jim Cox

To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. The Concise Guide To Economics is a handy, quick reference guide for...

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The Conquest of Poverty

Tags: Free Markets

01/01/1973 • Henry Hazlitt

Long before Charles Murray took on the topic, Henry Hazlitt wrote an outstanding book on poverty that not only provided an empirical examination of the problem but also presented a rigorous theory for understanding the relationship between...

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The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories

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

11/21/2011 • John V. Denson

This book is one of the most significant ever written by Denson. It contains essays that have been turned into major movies and documentaries, and influenced politics in ways no one could have expected. The thesis in brief: the warfare state is...

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The Counter-Revolution of Science

Tags: Introductory

06/01/1952 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Hayek wrote The Counter-Revolution of Science in 1952, several years before Mises wrote his final methodological treatise. It was unavailable for many years, and remains long sought after – rightly so. In fact, Mises adored this book as a...

The Critics of Keynesian Economics

10/04/1995 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt confronted the rise of Keynesianism in his day and put together an intellectual arsenal: the most brilliant economists of the time showing what is wrong with the system, in great detail with great rigor. With excerpts from books...

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The Cultural Background of Ludwig von Mises

Tags: Biographies, War and Foreign Policy, World History

07/31/2019 • Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Writing for Americans about the cultural background of Ludwig von Mises, an eminent former compatriot of mine, poses some difficulties: how to present you with a world radically different from yours, a world far away, which in many ways no...

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The Cure for Poverty

Tags: Poverty

01/05/2019 • Henry Hazlitt

[ Chapter 20 of The Conquest of Poverty , 1996.] The theme of this book is the conquest of poverty, not its “abolition.” Poverty can be alleviated or reduced, and in the Western world in the last two centuries it has been almost miraculously...

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The De Moneta of Nicholas Oresme and English Mint Documents

02/14/1956 • Nicholas Oresme

Nicole Oresme has been called the most brilliant scientist of the 14th century: mathematician, musicologist, physicist, philosopher, and economist. On top of that, he was a Bishop and a theologian. His writings of money bear much in common with...

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The Decline of American Liberalism

Tags: Introductory

06/01/1967 • Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.

One of the most striking facts about American history is how in a country born in old-style liberalism, the meaning of liberalism would not only change but be completely upended: liberalism now means its opposite. In this massively important...

The Decline of the American Republic

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History

05/27/1955 • John T. Flynn

In 1955, John T. Flynn saw what few others journalist did: the welfare-warfare state conspired to bring down American liberty. The New Deal combined with World War Two had fastened leviathan control over a country born in liberty. This early...

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The Development of Economic Doctrine: An Introductory Survey

04/25/1933 • Alexander Gray

Alexander Gray was a British economist with a particularly keen appreciation of the Austrian contribution to the history of ideas. As with others of his generation, he was super well-educated and an outstanding stylist of the English language...

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The Development of Economics

Tags: World History

01/01/1933 • William A Scott

Scott groups the topics to be studied around the development of the Classical Political Economy of England by considering first, the background of that development in the economic life and thought of the preceding period; second, the development...

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The Discovery of Freedom

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate, Legal System

07/10/1943 • Rose Wilder Lane

With new forewords by Roger Lea MacBride and Hans F. Sennholz What an American original was Rose Wilder Lane! What a treasure! She lived from 1886 until 1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent collaborator on...

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The Dollar Dilemma: Where to from Here

Tags: The Fed, Strategy, U.S. Economy

01/09/2025 • Ron Paul

We should make every effort to legalize competition to the US dollar and participate in the debate over the fiat dollar, precious metals, and cryptocurrencies. It may sound like only “money,” but it has everything to do with living in a free and prosperous society. Let the competition begin.

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The Driver

Tags: Media and Culture

09/01/1922 • Garet Garrett

Here is a treasure in the history of the pro-capitalist novel. Garet Garrett, author of The People’s Pottage, tells the story of an upstart Wall Street speculator financier, Henry Galt, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as...

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The Economic Causes of War

Tags: Global Economy, War and Foreign Policy

08/10/1968 • Lionel Robbins

Robbins’ analysis here presented has still a place in the rational discussion of the possible causes of war. It fits very well the period of history in regard to which the Marxian theories here discussed were originally elaborated.

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The Economic Mind in American Civilization: 1606–1865, 2 Volumes

Tags: World History

10/14/1966 • Joseph Dorfman

In America as elsewhere, economic thought is an integral part of culture. Its richness and the reach of its relevance can be appreciated fully only when it is treated in its natural habitat of practical affairs and intellectual endeavor. It...

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