Books

A Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States

Tags: Money and Banks, U.S. History

01/01/1835 • William M. Gouge

“The Bank was saved, and the people were ruined.” So says William Gouge (1796–1863), one of the best political economists of the American 19th century. He is speaking of the panic of 1819, but his sentence could sum up the whole thesis of this...

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A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru

Tags: World History

06/16/1961 • Louis Baudin

Ludwig von Mises: There is no doubt that this book, A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru, is of the highest importance for the historian, for the ethnologist, and for the economist. But in establishing this fact one has not yet fully...

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A Strange Liberty: Politics Drops Its Pretenses

Tags: Decentralization and Secession, Media and Culture, Socialism, Strategy

02/21/2023 • Jeff Deist

A Strange Liberty argues persuasively that the faith in democracy as a force for internal peace and dependable constitutional restraints has not worked. Instead, we are left with centralized tyrannies, highly disputable election results...

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A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism

12/01/1988 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Here is Hans Hoppe’s first treatise in English — actually his first book in English — and the one that put him on the map as a social thinker and economist to watch. He argued that there are only two possible archetypes in economic affairs...

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A Tiger by the Tail

Tags: Booms and Busts

04/21/2009 • Friedrich A. Hayek • Sudha R. Shenoy

F.A. Hayek said that his biggest regret in a lifetime of writing was that he never wrote a book-length refutation of Keynesian economics. He seriously doubted that Keynesian style planning would ever captivate governments, so he focused on...

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A Tiger by the Tail

Tags: Booms and Busts

04/21/2009 • Friedrich A. Hayek • Sudha R. Shenoy

F.A. Hayek said that his biggest regret in a lifetime of writing was that he never wrote a book-length refutation of Keynesian economics. He seriously doubted that Keynesian style planning would ever captivate governments, so he focused on...

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A Time is Born

Tags: Booms and Busts, Media and Culture, U.S. History

01/30/1944 • Garet Garrett

During an interlude of twenty-one years between two global wars Heaven swung low and then high again. When it was very low, seeming almost to touch the hill tops, the human race prepared to celebrate the death of poverty. In the whole world...

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A Torrent of Laws

Tags: Legal System

10/24/2019 • Henry Hazlitt

All over the United States, if you are reading this in a daylight hour, there is a ceaseless downpour of new laws. Every day some of us, somewhere, are being encumbered or shackled by still more restrictions. There are just too many laws. But...

A Treatise on Currency and Banking

Tags: Booms and Busts

10/04/1966 • Condy Raguet

This remarkable hard-money treatise appeared in 1840. It is by Condy Raguet (1784-1842), a noted Pennsylvania politician and economist who worked as a merchant in several Latin American countries. He was wholly dedicated to free trade, the free...

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A Treatise on Political Economy

04/22/1821 • Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) has been described as a revolutionary, an author of scholarly books and popular tracts, a social philosopher, a successful entrepreneur and a remarkable Renaissance man. Above all, however, he was a great economist...

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A Treatise on Political Economy

10/04/1817 • Destutt Tracy

The neglect of Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836) in the history of political economy is both strange and tragic. He was, after all, Thomas Jefferson’s number one favorite economist, the thinker who influenced him and, arguably...

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Abundance, Generosity, and the State: An Inquiry into Economic Principles

Tags: Media and Culture, Property Rights

03/20/2024 • Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Human action is usually driven by the desire to obtain more for less, and, ideally something for nothing. This has sometimes been called the economic principle. The wish to “get free stuff” pervades all times and places, all sectors of the...

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Accent On The Right

Tags: Biographies

01/11/1968 • Leonard E. Read

In this work dedicated to the memory of Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), Leonard E. Read explores an array of themes such as the sources of human progress, the political consequences of not thinking for one’s self, and finding what is right and...

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Acting Man and Economics

06/19/2018 • Ludwig von Mises

People generally believe that economics is of interest only to businessmen, bankers, and the like and that there is a separate economics for every group, segment of society, or country. As economics is the latest science to have been developed...

After Seven Years

Tags: Biographies

10/20/1939 • Raymond Moley

Written by an adviser to FDR who helped assemble the president’s “brain trust”, After Seven Years is a must-read for anyone claiming to be a student of the New Deal. Written in the midst of man-made economic calamity, Moley supplies an insider’s...

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Against Intellectual Property

Tags: Legal System

07/28/2008 • Stephan Kinsella

Would a libertarian society recognize patents as legitimate? What about copyright? In Against Intellectual Property, Stephan Kinsella, a patent attorney of many years’ experience, offers his response to these questions. Kinsella is altogether...

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Against Leviathan

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

What is fundamentally wrong with government today? In Against Leviathan, economist and historian, Robert Higgs, offers an unflinching critical analysis of government power in all its aspects: welfare, warfare, regulation, spying, and its...

Against the Left

Tags: Decentralization and Secession, Libertarianism

03/24/2020 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Against the Left explores something basic to libertarianism that many people today have forgotten. As everyone knows, libertarians view the State and the individual as fundamentally opposed. People who freely interact in the market create on...

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Against the Tide

Tags: World History

01/01/1969 • Wilhelm Röpke

Wilhelm Röpke was schooled in the tradition of the Austrians and made enormous contributions to the study of political institutions. Here we have collected some of his most powerful anti-Keynesian writings, which, in particular, underscore what...

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Tags: U.S. History

03/09/2017 • Ralph Raico

From the Foreword by David Gordon ... Much of Ralph Raico’s scholarly work centers on French classical liberalism. We are thus especially fortunate to be able to publish an essay by him on one of the greatest French classical liberals of the...

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