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The Freeman Book

Tags: Media and Culture

03/15/1924 • Albert Jay Nock

Yes, that’s right: The Freeman. This was the original, as edited by Albert Jay Nock in the early 1920s. It was radical, far-reaching, topical, and bracing in every way. Here we have a collection of what Nock himself considered to be the best of...

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The German Question

Tags: Big Government, World History

05/31/1946 • Wilhelm Röpke

The German Question by Wilhelm Röpke is the book that inspired the postwar economic reform in Germany — which Röpke himself did not believe had gone nearly far enough. It came out in 1945 in Switzerland, one year after Mises’s Omnipotent...

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The Global Currency Plot

Tags: Socialism, Strategy

02/16/2023 • Thorsten Polleit

— from the Summary ... Democratic socialism—the ideology that dominates the world today—aspires to become a world state. The route toward it requires a single world currency to be created. That would undoubtedly create a dystopia. Might this...

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The Gold Standard Act of 1900 and After

03/24/2018 • Murray N. Rothbard

Any reform legislation had to wait until after the elections of 1898, for the gold forces were not yet in control of Congress. In the autumn, the executive committee of the Indianapolis Monetary Convention mobilized its forces, calling on no...

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The Gold Standard and Its Future

Tags: World History

01/27/1935 • T.E. Gregory

Between 1919 and 1925 a co-operative and successful effort was made to replace the monetary systems of the world upon a:firm foundation, and the international gold standard was thereby restored. In the last few years a variety of circumstances...

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The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks

03/28/1992 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The world’s financial system is in a precarious state, and everywhere the cry is heard for reform. The contributors to this notable anthology argue for one particular sort of reform, a return to the gold standard. They write from the perspective...

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The Gold-Exchange Standard in Operation: 1926–1929

Tags: U.S. History

12/29/2021 • Murray N. Rothbard

[Excerpt from Murray N. Rothbard, A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 2005), part 4, pp. 400–24.] By the end of 1925, Montagu Norman and the British Establishment...

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The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Booms from Colonial Days to the Present Times

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

08/12/1932 • A. M. Sakolski

Those who lived through the huge speculative real estate bubble of the 1990s through 2008 might have imagined that it was unprecedented. Not so. Far from it! This definitive history of land speculation provides a well-documented but hugely...

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The Great Austrian Economists

Tags: Intermediate, Featured, Biographies

11/22/1999 • Randall G. Holcombe

The Austrian tradition began formally with Carl Menger’s 1871 work, Principles of Economics. But its roots stretch back to the late-Scholastic period, when philosophers first began to think systematically about the relationship between human...

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The Great Deformation

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Free Markets, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 • David Stockman

David Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution meant to restore sound money principles to the U.S. government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare. In The Great Deformation, Stockman describes how...

The Great Depression

06/15/1934 • Lionel Robbins

In 1934, when Lionel Robbins wrote The Great Depression, he was a committed advocate of the Austrian School of economics. This would later change, but in this book he brilliantly applies the Austrian theory of the business cycle to explain the...

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The Great Fiction

03/04/2021 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Expanded Second Edition Foreword by Jeff Deist Congratulations! You hold in your hands one of the best collections of essays from one of the most vital and challenging thinkers on the planet. This book is a compendium of sorts, a cross section...

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The Group vs. the Collective

04/18/2018 • Ludwig von Mises

[Excerpt from Epistemological Problems of Economics, chap. 1] The reproach of individualism is commonly leveled against economics on the basis of an alleged irreconcilable conflict between the interests of society and those of the individual...

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The History of Banks

Tags: Money and Banks, World History

07/22/1971 • Richard Hildreth

This book discusses the history of banking beginning in Venice and Genoa. It continues by demonstrating the advantages and necessity of free competition in the business of banking.

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The Imposers and the Imposed Upon

Tags: Decentralization and Secession

11/30/2020 • Jeff Deist

[Excerpt from a talk by the same name delivered at the Mises Institute’s annual Supporters Summit, Jekyll Island, Georgia, October 9, 2020.] I’d like to talk to you this afternoon about two classes of Americans, and it may not be the two classes...

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The Incredible Bread Machine

Tags: Free Markets

10/20/1974 • R. W. Grant

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

Tags: Money and Banks

10/02/1978 • Henry Hazlitt

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...

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The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years

05/07/2026 • Joseph T. Salerno

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. 

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The Interest Rate and the Length of Production: A Comment

02/28/2017 • David Howden

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

Tags: Big Government, Free Markets, War and Foreign Policy

06/11/2000 • Murray N. Rothbard • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

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...

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