Books

Twilight of Authority

Tags: Intermediate, Big Government

06/01/1975 • Robert A. Nisbet

This classic occupies an interesting place in libertarian history. The author is a sociologist, one beloved by conservatives. But read closely: his view of what constitutes authority (legitimate authority) flows entirely out of the private...

Two Essays

06/15/1987 • Wilhelm Röpke

This book presents two essays by the late Röpke published in 1951 and 1957: “The Problem of Economic Order” and “Welfare, Freedom, and Inflation”. The justification for republishing them lies in the fact that they are still very relevant...

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Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises

08/10/1991 • Ludwig von Mises

In “Liberty and Property,” Mises demonstrates how poverty, starvation, disease, and serfdom dominated the pre-capitalist ages, and how the market brought liberation for the masses of men. Socialism, in contrast, embodies hatred for liberty and...

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Understanding Money Mechanics

Tags: Monetary Policy, Money and Banks

12/08/2021 • Robert P. Murphy

This book provides the intelligent layperson with a concise yet comprehensive overview of the theory, history, and practice of money and banking, with a focus on the United States. Although the author considers himself an Austrian school...

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Understanding the Dollar Crisis

Tags: Money and Banks

06/15/1973 • Percy L. Greaves, Jr.

In the year that President Nixon closed the gold window forever and the US government removed the last vestiges of the gold standard, nonstop dollar turmoil was unleashed. In that same year, Percy L. Greaves, a student of Ludwig von Mises’s...

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Unsanctioned Voice

Tags: Introductory, Biographies, U.S. History

09/18/2008 • Bruce Ramsey

What a fascinating life Garet Garrett lived! Journalist, novelist, anti-New Deal writer, and then prophet of decline in the 1950s, no one’s prose and thought combined to create such a rich combination of toughness and insight. He was a great...

Valuation Without Calculation

04/27/2018 • Ludwig von Mises

[Chapter 11 from Human Action.] 1. The Gradation of the Means 2. The Barter-Fiction of the Elementary Theory of Value and Prices 3. The Problem of Economic Calculation 4. Economic Calculation and the Market 1. The Gradation of the Means Acting...

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Value, Capital, and Rent

04/04/1954 • Knut Wicksell

Knut Wicksell was an important thinker of the second-generation marginalist school, and here is his detailed commentary on and elaboration of the capital theory of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. It was first published in 1893, but did not appear in...

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Vices are NOT Crimes

Tags: Big Government, Legal System

07/06/2020 • Lysander Spooner

Introduction by Murray Rothbard: We are all indebted to Carl Watner for uncovering an unknown work by the great Lysander Spooner, one that managed to escape the editor of Spooner’s Collected Works. Both the title and the substance of “Vices are...

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Vision

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

03/15/1978 • Leonard E. Read

Vision is the blessing of foresight, but it has no chance of realization without its companion blessing, insight. In the absence of these twin attainments—each within our reach—the people perish, that is, they vegetate rather than germinate...

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Wages and Capital

Tags: Advanced

05/20/2016 • F.W. Taussig

Taussig’s Introduction This book, written in 1892–1895 and published in 1896, has long been out of print. The London School of Economics (University of London) now honors me by undertaking a reprint in its series of scarce books and monographs...

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Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth

Tags: Media and Culture, Money and Banks, U.S. Economy

11/18/2010 • Douglas E. French

Housing, a central priority for government policy for many decades, collapsed in 2008; even today, millions of homes are under water. This poses many economic and ethical issues. This elegant and fact-filled book by Doug French examines the...

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Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

Tags: The Fed, Money and Banks, War and Foreign Policy

07/20/1984 • Murray N. Rothbard

This fiery monograph shows a side of Murray Rothbard not seen in his theoretical treatise: his ability to employ “power elite” analysis to understand the relationship between money, power, and war. Rather than allow the left to dominate this...

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War and Democracy

Tags: Introductory, War and Foreign Policy, World History

01/11/2016 • Paul Gottfried

War and Democracy presents a selection of essays and reviews by Paul Gottfried written from 1975 to the present. They cover a variety of topics, both historical and contemporary, ranging from Oswald Spengler and the Frankfurt School to the...

War and the Money Machine: Concealing the Costs of War beneath the Veil of Inflation

Tags: Inflation, War and Foreign Policy

08/21/2021 • Joseph T. Salerno

In every great war monetary calculation was disrupted by inflation. … The economic behavior of the belligerents was thereby led astray; the true consequences of the war were removed from their view. One can say without exaggeration that...

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War Collectivism

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History

05/16/2012 • Murray N. Rothbard

More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a “war collectivism,” a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interest through the instrumentality of the central...

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War, Christianity, and the State

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Laurence M. Vance

These seventy-six essays, organized under the headings of Christianity and War, Christianity and the Military, Christianity and the Warfare State, and Christianity and Torture, have one underlying theme: the relation of Christianity to war, the...

War, Empire, and the Military

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Taxes and Spending, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Laurence M. Vance

With War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Police, Laurence Vance, a relentless critic of the state and its wars, has updated his already extensive writings on war and empire to include new material in this...

Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers

Tags: Big Government, Strategy

11/14/2016 • Walter Block • Peter Lothian Nelson

Water covers some 75 percent of the earth’s surface, while land covers 25 percent, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1 percent of world GDP, the latter 99 percent plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are...

Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers

Tags: Big Government, Strategy

11/14/2016 • Walter Block • Peter Lothian Nelson

Water covers some 75 percent of the earth’s surface, while land covers 25 percent, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1 percent of world GDP, the latter 99 percent plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are...