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The Rate of Interest: Its Nature, Determination, and Relation to Economic Phenomena

03/11/1907 Irving Fisher

The problem of interest has engaged the attention of writers for two thousand years, and of economists since economics began. And yet, with the exception of what has been accomplished by Rae, Bohm-Bawerk, Landry, and some others, very little...

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The Real Crash: America’s Coming Bankruptcy—How to Save Yourself and Your Country

01/11/2016 Peter Schiff

In The Real Crash, New York Times bestselling author Peter D. Schiff argues that America is enjoying a government-inflated bubble, one that reality will explode . . . with disastrous consequences for the economy and for each of us. Schiff...

The Real Lincoln

Tags: Introductory, U.S. History

01/11/2016 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

In this book, Thomas DiLorenzo calls for a complete rethinking of a central icon of American historiography. He looks at the actions and legacy of Abe Lincoln from an economics point of view to show that Lincoln’s main interest was not in...

The Regulated Consumer

06/15/1971 Mary Bennett Peterson

At the outset of the Naderite consumer movement, the Austrians had a vigorous response in this book by Mary Bennett Peterson. She discusses whether and to what extent product, safety, labor, communications, and other regulation helps or hinders...

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The Return to Laisser Faire

Tags: Big Government

06/05/1929 Sir Ernest Benn

From the author: In this book my endeavor will be to do two things for the benefit of students of politics and citizenship. I shall set myself out to discredit Socialism, but that is the least worthy and the least inspiring of my aims. I shall...

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The Return to Protection

Tags: Big Government, Corporate Welfare

04/13/1904 William Smart

William Smart was the outstanding Austrian in England during his generation, a leading advocate of the marginalist school. But he was more than that: he was a dedicated champion of laissez-faire trade policy in the tradition of Cobden and Bright...

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The Revolution: A Manifesto

Tags: Introductory, U.S. History

04/30/2008 Ron Paul

Ron Paul wrote this book in the midst of his 2007-2008 educational campaign for the Republican nomination. It is a response to the demand from so many to understand the political and economic philosophy that led to his campaign, which was a...

The Rise and Fall of Society

06/15/1959 Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov adored the work of Albert Jay Nock, particularly Nock’s writings on the State. And so Chodorov set out to do something implausible: to rework the Nock book in his own style. Rothbard wrote of this book: “Frank’s final flowering...

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The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution

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

09/15/1940 John T. Flynn

Flynn remarks on the impetus behind this powerful book: I wrote this book to answer a question that practically everybody is asking: “Where are we heading?” More people ask that question than any other.... I thought it was about time for someone...

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The Road to Serfdom

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, World History

03/01/1944 Friedrich A. Hayek

The description below is written for the Definitive Edition of Road to Serfdom which is sold in the Mises Store and can be previewed here: Google Preview. Finally, here is an edition of Road to Serfdom that does justice to its monumental status...

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The Roosevelt Myth

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History

08/15/1948 John T. Flynn

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the most sainted president of the 20th century. You have to look far and wide to discover the truth about his character and policies. But as John T. Flynn noted in this landmark 1948 volume, FDR actually prolonged the...

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The Roots of Capitalism

Tags: Free Markets, World History

12/16/1965 John Chamberlain

Capitalism is a system that can stand on its own attainments, writes John Chamberlain, and he offers here a fast-paced, provocative look at the intellectual forces and practical accomplishments that have created American capitalism. He begins at...

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The Roots of the Social Security Myth

Tags: Introductory, Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy

06/01/2001 John Attarian

John Attarian shows that the Social Security program is not an insurance program at all but rather a pure transfer scam designed to make the elderly dependent on the tax take from younger workers. In a particular controversial section, the...

The Rothbard Reader

03/02/2016 Joseph T. Salerno Matthew McCaffrey

From the Introduction by Joseph T. Salerno and Matthew McCaffrey. Few economists manage to produce a body of work that boasts a serious following twenty years after their deaths. Murray N. Rothbard is a rare exception. More than two decades...

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The Rothbard Reader

03/02/2016 Joseph T. Salerno Matthew McCaffrey

From the Introduction by Joseph T. Salerno and Matthew McCaffrey. Few economists manage to produce a body of work that boasts a serious following twenty years after their deaths. Murray N. Rothbard is a rare exception. More than two decades...

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The School of Salamanca

06/11/1952 Marjorie Grice-Hutichinson

Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson’s remarkable classic, The School of Salamanca, posed an extraordinary challenge when it first appeared in 1952. The book is not only a pioneering presentation of this lost school of monetary theory — fantastic thinkers...

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The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Education, Media and Culture, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 Ron Paul

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America’s broken education...

The Sizzle of Economic Freedom

Tags: Free Markets

08/30/2018 Robert P. Murphy Lawrence J. McQuillan

Freedom lovers have long tried to win converts — and especially voters — by appealing to first principles of classical liberalism embraced by the Founding Fathers: above all, the inalienable right of an individual to chart the course of his own...

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The Sizzle of Economic Freedom

Tags: Free Markets

08/30/2018 Robert P. Murphy Lawrence J. McQuillan

Freedom lovers have long tried to win converts — and especially voters — by appealing to first principles of classical liberalism embraced by the Founding Fathers: above all, the inalienable right of an individual to chart the course of his own...

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The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century

Tags: The Fed

07/10/2018 Mark Thornton

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the economics profession suffered a blow to what reputation it had. But unlike most of his colleagues, Mark Thornton was vindicated by 2008. Mark has been a voice of sanity at times when the wild...

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