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The State, The Enemy by Sir Ernest Benn

The State, The Enemy

Tags: Big Government
Sir Ernest Benn
From the author: The following pages are concerned with the re-statement of old principles illustrated by examples selected from the happenings of the last forty years. In the Welfare State manufacturing delays contrast strangely with the speed...
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The Strike Threat System by William H. Hutt

The Strike-Threat System

William H. Hutt
The classic from the great labor economist W.H. Hutt argues that it is not the strike but the strike threat that makes unions so incredibly costly to American prosperity. It hangs over unionized companies like the sword of Damocles, intimidating...
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The Tariff Idea by W. M. Curtiss

The Tariff Idea

Tags: Taxes and Spending
W. M. Curtiss
Tariffs are only one of the many restrictions to trade throughout the world. For many years, they were perhaps the most important restriction; but more recently, their importance has been overshadowed by such modern- innovations as exchange...
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Theory of Collective Bargaining by William H. Hutt

The Theory of Collective Bargaining

William H. Hutt
In 1930, W.H. Hutt demonstrated several spectacular points: labor unions cannot lift wages overall; their earnings come at the expense of the consumer; their effect is to cartelize business and reduce free competition to the detriment of...
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The Theory of Idle Resources by William H. Hutt

The Theory of Idle Resources

William H. Hutt
W.H. Hutt’s Theory of Idle Resources was first published in 1939, surely one of the earliest responses to Keynes’s General Theory. Hutt goes for the heart of Keynes’s prescription for recovery, which was to get idle resources moving, whether...
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The Theory of Money and Credit

Tags: Money and Banks
Ludwig von Mises
Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money to ever appear. It made his reputation across Europe and established him as the most important economist of his age. We...
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The Theory of Political Economy by W. Stanley Jevons

The Theory of Political Economy

W. Stanley Jevons
The science of Political Economy rests upon a few notions of an apparently simple character. Utility, wealth, value, commodity, labour, land, capital, are the elements of the subject; and whoever has a thorough comprehension of their nature must...
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The Theory of Social Economy by Gustav Cassel

The Theory of Social Economy

Gustav Cassel
From the author: The present edition includes all the additions and improvements which post-war development has induced me to make in my exposition of the theory of money. It contains in particular a summary of my theory of Purchasing Power...
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The Trade of Nations by Michael Heilperin

The Trade of Nations

Tags: Global Economy
Michael A. Heilperin
Originaly published in 1947, Heilperin’s The Trade of Nations represented — in the words of the original Preface — “an attempt to re-examine the problems of international trade, finance, and money, with special reference to the tasks of peace...
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The Trend of Economic Thinking

Tags: Introductory
Friedrich A. Hayek
Hayek was not only a seminal thinker in his own right. As a critic, commentator, guide, and teacher of ideas in general, he was a master of the history of ideas in general. This volume collects his writings on the ideas of others, and through...