The Imposers and the Imposed Upon
There is reason for optimism: there is a decentralist impulse that is working its way across the world. It’s coming to America.
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The Incredible Bread Machine
Six young students make their case for the free market with simple, cool and precise reason, combined with youthful humor.
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The Inflation Crisis, and How To Resolve It
Prices are rising, as they inevitably must with an expansionary policy, and who is getting the blame? Not the Fed. Commentators claim it’s the weather or foreigners with greedy appetites for goods. It has always been so: when the inflation...
The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years
For Human Action is more than a book about economics broadly construed. It is a guide to civilized social life which elucidates the laws of reality that apply if human persons are to engage in peaceful and prosperous social cooperation under the division of labor.
The Interest Rate and the Length of Production: A Comment
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 4 (Winter 2016) ABSTRACT: Machaj (2015) does a great service in pointing out a key assumption, heretofore unaddressed, in Filleule (2007) and Hülsmann (2010). Machaj errs, however, in stating that...
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The Irrepressible Rothbard
Summing up the work of libertarian economist and historian Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) and noting its stunning range, philosopher David Gordon once wondered “if there are really three, four, or five geniuses writing under his name.” The...
The Irrepressible Rothbard
Summing up the work of libertarian economist and historian Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) and noting its stunning range, philosopher David Gordon once wondered “if there are really three, four, or five geniuses writing under his name.” The...
The Kohler Strike: Union Violence and Administrative Law
Are labor unions merely an example of “free association”? Perhaps in some dreamland, but the real history of American labor organizing tells a different story. This 1961 book by labor economist Sylvester Petro tells a story of the destruction of...
The Labor Policy of the Free Society
Professor Petro is one of the giants of the Austrian tradition, and he applied his talents to a particular area of specialization: labor policy. This 1957 book covers three main areas: US labor law and experience, the Austrian theory of labor...
The Law
How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in jail? These are among the most intriguing issues...
The Law Of Power
From the author’s introduction: The people of the world stand under the principle of power. The whole social entity is governed by power, this being the highest value peoples aspire to and by which they counted, weighed, and judged. But...
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The Left, the Right, and the State
Lew Rockwell’s new manifesto is a clarion call—creative and thought-provoking on every page—for a principled liberty in our time. There are very few books in which you can open up any page and immediately find a quotable and inspiring passage...
The Legacy of Max Weber
Ludwig Lachmann took a strong interest in the history of economic thought, particularly as it pertained to methodology. While he would not have claimed to be an Austrian in the Misesian tradition, his writings have influenced Austrians. Here is...
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The Liberal Tradition from Fox to Keynes
Long before our time, the word liberal meant: leave society alone to manage itself. In economics, it meant laissez-faire and private property. In government, it meant the rule of law. In civic life, it meant more liberty. Freedom was the...
The Liberal Tradition from Fox to Keynes
Long before our time, the word liberal meant: leave society alone to manage itself. In economics, it meant laissez-faire and private property. In government, it meant the rule of law. In civic life, it meant more liberty. Freedom was the...
The Limits of Economics
From the author: The prevailing lack of understanding as to the significance of economics for practical economic life, and its usefulness for purposes of economic policy, makes it apparent that there are many unsettled problems connected with...
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The Love of Liberty
The love of liberty and the love of knowledge go hand-in-hand. As people can be free only when self-responsible and self-responsible only when free, so there can be no liberty without knowledge and no knowledge without liberty. These virtues are...
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The Magic Coin
This slim book engagingly written encapsulates the basic lessons of money and of how it is deformed by government and central banking in a magical story that will charm and enlighten young readers.
The Mainspring of Human Progress
What has capitalism contributed to civilization? It made it. And nowhere has it thrived so beautifully as in America, the country that threw off the static old world to make a new one rooted in progress and individualism. With incredible...
The Man versus the State
Henry Hazlitt says that this book is “One of the most powerful and influential arguments for limited government, laissez faire and individualism ever written.” Spencer played a huge role in the history of ideas, one that contemporary...
