Books

Interpretations of the Wicksellian Idea

01/01/1979 • Robert L. Bradley Jr.

It was Wicksell’s investigations into monetary equilibrium that intrigued some of the greatest economic minds of this century—D. A. Robertson, G. Myrdal, J. M. Keynes, L. von Mises and F. A. Hayek—during the tumultuous era of the Great...

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Interventionism: An Economic Analysis

Tags: Booms and Busts

01/01/1940 • Ludwig von Mises

Shortly after arriving in the United States, having fled a war-torn Europe, Ludwig von Mises sat down to complete his trilogy on economic systems. The result was this remarkably concise treatise, which tragically was not published until 1998...

Introduction to Economics

Tags: Intermediate, Education

05/27/1954 • John V. Van Sickle

From the authors: This is an elementary introduction to a vast field. We have deliberately refrained from bringing in many of the refinements of theory and for two reasons. First of all, these refinements seem more appropriate to a text for an...

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Introduction to Robert LeFevre’s The Nature of Man and His Government

11/17/1959 • Rose Wilder Lane

Introduction to Robert LeFevre’s The Nature of Man and His Government, by Rose Wilder Lane This little book is important because it is revolutionary thinking. To appreciate its value correctly, we should remember the World Revolution’s career so...

Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences

03/28/1985 • Carl Menger

The famed Methodenstreit of the late 19th century was the battle of method. It pitted the emerging Austrian School against the German Historical School over a critically important question: what is the proper way to do social science? Here, Carl...

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Is the Market a Test of Truth and Beauty?

Tags: Free Markets, Media and Culture

06/02/2011 • Leland B. Yeager

Professor Leland B. Yeager (University of Virginia and Auburn University) is one of the giants of the generation of economists after Ludwig von Mises. He was Mises’s student and translator — and has made a lifetime of contributions to policy...

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Is There Such a Thing As a Skyscraper Curse?

09/09/2016 • Elizabeth Boyle • Lucas M. Engelhardt • Mark Thornton

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) ABSTRACT: There is an emerging literature on the subject of skyscrapers and business cycles. Lawrence (1999) first noticed the correlation between important changes in the economy...

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Is There Such a Thing As a Skyscraper Curse?

09/09/2016 • Elizabeth Boyle • Lucas M. Engelhardt • Mark Thornton

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) ABSTRACT: There is an emerging literature on the subject of skyscrapers and business cycles. Lawrence (1999) first noticed the correlation between important changes in the economy...

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Is There Such a Thing As a Skyscraper Curse?

09/09/2016 • Elizabeth Boyle • Lucas M. Engelhardt • Mark Thornton

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) ABSTRACT: There is an emerging literature on the subject of skyscrapers and business cycles. Lawrence (1999) first noticed the correlation between important changes in the economy...

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It Didn’t Have to Be This Way

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, Free Markets, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 • Harry C. Veryser

Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the recent economic meltdown--or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent future calamities? Mainstream economics has no adequate answers...

It’s a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes

Tags: Media and Culture

06/23/2011 • Jeffrey A. Tucker

We are surrounded by miracles created in the private sector, particularly in the digital universe, and yet we don’t appreciate them enough. Meanwhile, the public sector is systematically wrecking the physical world in sneaky and petty ways that...

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Jefferson

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History

06/15/1926 • Albert Jay Nock

Here is Albert Jay Nock’s classic study on the life and thought of Thomas Jefferson, a book which draws out points other biographers have missed: his radicalism, his opposition to all centralized government, his attachment to liberty and...

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John Prince Smith and the German Free-Trade Movement

Tags: Biographies, World History

01/01/1988 • Ralph Raico

Originally published in Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard. Edited by Walter Block and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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John Prince Smith and the German Free-Trade Movement

12/06/2017 • Ralph Raico

John Prince Smith was the creator of the German free trade movement and its leader from the 1840s until his death in 1874. He was born in London in 1809, and, after leaving Eton prematurely, on account of the death of his father, began working...

Karl Marx and the Close of His System

01/01/1898 • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

The great economist takes on Karl Marx, and his fundamental failure to understand the workings of the capital market and its relationship to value. The criticism was devastating, so much so that a leading Marxist responded, and thus herein is...

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Keep US Out of War

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

04/07/2022 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Events in Ukraine are happening very fast, and if I tried to predict what will happen there, my prediction would soon be overtaken by events. But one thing is certain. We need to understand the background of the crisis, and we also need to...

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Keynes the Man

Tags: Biographies

03/06/2010 • Murray N. Rothbard

Here is Rothbard’s mini-biography of Lord Keynes, one that makes use of all modern research to reconstruct Keynes’s life and works in a way that is absolutely devastating. We read about his schooling, his secret societies, his political...

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Knowledge in the Service of a Political Agenda is Biased

Tags: Book Reviews, Socialism, World History

02/15/2022 • David Gordon

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity By David Graeber and David Wengrow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021 Xii + 692 pages The Dawn of Everything, which has already attracted much scholarly attention and is a best seller as well...

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Labor Economics From a Free Market Perspective

Tags: Intermediate

03/28/2008 • Walter Block

Walter Block, in this large collection of his writings on the topic, avoids no controversial issue in the course of a consistent application of Austrian labor theory. He begins with the determination of wages in a market economy and defends the...

Labor Monopolies or Freedom

06/15/1972 • John Scoville

From the author: This book has been written to present the basic facts and principles in regard to labor unions and collective bargaining. I believe that most of the thinking about labor unions is based on emotionalism rather than reason. Many...

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