Books

Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined

10/15/1990 • Friedrich A. Hayek

What if the government let anyone use a currency of his or her choosing? What if the government permitted entrepreneurs to innovate in the monetary sector, such as by creating digital currencies or minting commodity money? This is precisely what...

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Deneen’s Common Good Statism

Tags: Democracy, Free Markets

09/05/2023 • David Gordon

It’s likely that many readers of The Austrian support the free market and also support “traditional” social values, but in Patrick Deneen’s opinion, this is an unstable amalgam. Deneen, a political theorist who teaches at Notre Dame, thinks that...

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Depression, War, and Cold War

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

06/22/2006 • Robert Higgs

If you have ever wondered how much of the official story of the last fifty years is correct, Higgs makes it clear: your worst suspicions are correct. The official statistics are little more than fiction. The level of corruption in the warfare...

Die Entwicklung des gutsherrlich-bäuerlichen Verhältnisses in Galizien: 1772–1848;

Tags: World History

06/15/1902 • Ludwig von Mises

The Development of the Relationship between Peasant and Lord of the Manor in Galicia: 1772-1848.

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Die geldtheoretische Seite des Stabilisierungsproblems

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks

07/20/1923 • Ludwig von Mises

The German version of Stabilization of the Monetary Unit, From the Viewpoint of Theory. Explains Mises: “Attempts to stabilize the value of the monetary unit strongly influence the monetary policy of almost every nation today.”

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Die Gemeinwirtschaft

11/01/1932 • Ludwig von Mises

Mises’s book Socialism might be the bravest and most revolutionary book of the 20th century. Here is the 1932 second edition of the German original.

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Die Okonomifschen Kategorien und die Organisation der Wirtschaft

07/20/1923 • Richard von Strigl

The original German version of Richard von Strigl’s Economic Categories and the Organization of the Economy (1923).

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Die Partei der Freiheit (The Party of Liberty)

Tags: World History

06/18/1999 • Ralph Raico

“To say that the new book by Ralph Raico, professor of history at Buffalo State College, fills a gap in the literature would be a gross understatement. There is simply no other study like it. Anyone who has taken undergraduate courses and...

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Differing Worldviews in Higher Education

Tags: Introductory, Education

01/11/2016 • Walter Block

Two noted professors on opposite sides of the cultural wars come together and engage in “cooperative argumentation.” One, a “Jewish, atheist libertarian” and the other a “mixed blood American Indian” bring to the table two radically different...

Dissent on Keynes: A Critical Appraisal of Keynesian Economics

10/04/1992 • Mark Skousen

Contrary to occasional pronouncements that “Keynes is dead,” government interventionism continues to be a growing threat throughout the world economy. Keynesianism and its many facets represent the most sophisticated defense of the Welfare State...

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Do We Want Free Enterprise?

Tags: Free Markets

03/05/1944 • Vervon Orval Watts

The very idea of “educating the masses” is inconsistent with the ideals of freedom and individualism to which we give lip service. Who are “the masses”? Can the term be more appropriately applied to others than to ourselves? We are all...

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Duncombe’s Free Banking

Tags: Money and Banks

05/27/1841 • Charles Duncombe

From the author: If you desire to perpetuate republican institutions in the United States; if you have studied the political history of our country, and become thoroughly acquainted with the elementary principles of our government; and if you...

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Early Speculative Bubbles and Increases in the Supply of Money

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks

08/19/1992 • Douglas French

The Housing Bubble was hardly the first in human history. What’s eluded historians is the same issue that eludes commentators today: the underlying cause of bubbles. This book is the first (and only) book to solve the mystery of the most famous...

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Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

01/01/1920 • Ludwig von Mises

This is the essay that overthrew the socialist paradigm in economics, and provided the foundation for modern Austrian price theory. When it first appeared in 1920, Mises was alone in challenging the socialists to explain how their pricing system...

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Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society

06/16/1949 • Trygve J.B. Hoff

First published in Norwegian in 1938, the English translation of Hoff’s work didn’t appear until 1949, and was not widely available. As a survey of the debate on socialist calculation, and a defense of the pure Mises-Hayek position, this work...

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Economic Controversies

03/18/2011 • Murray N. Rothbard

After Murray Rothbard finished his theoretical magnum opus — Man, Economy, and State — he turned his attention away from pure positive theory toward dealing with the opposition to Austrian theory. The result was a long series of fantastic...

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Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Mises U Required Readings, Booms and Busts

05/18/2009 • Murray N. Rothbard

Murray Rothbard was the master of reducing complicated theories to their very essence while retaining theoretical rigor, and this 1969 essay is a case in point.

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Economic Doctrine and Method: An Historical Sketch

Tags: World History

06/15/1954 • Joseph Schumpeter

The science of economics, as it took shape towards the end of the eighteenth century, had grown from two roots which must be clearly differentiated from one another. The great writings of the eighteenth century of which Adam Smith’s Wealth of...

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Economic Freedom and Interventionism

Tags: Free Markets

07/20/1990 • Ludwig von Mises

When Mises was 81 years old, he was invited to address a student rally at Madison Square Garden that was sponsored by the Young Americans for Freedom. He readily accepted. He prepared an address that those in attendance would never forget. He...

Economic Indulgences: Old and New Debates on Welfare and Freedom

09/09/2016 • David Cowan

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture In this lecture, I will look at a debate in the 1960s between Frank Knight, the subject of my new book (2006) in Palgrave Macmillan’s Great Thinkers...

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