Books

Power and Privilege: Labor Unions in America

Tags: Legal System

10/21/1984 • Morgan O. Reynolds

This book reconsiders the economic role of labor unions by challenging fundamental assumptions. Anyone who seeks a comprehensive treatment of the effects of labor unions, as well as the legal and economic reasons for those effects, would do well...

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Power Unlimited: The Corruption of Union Leadership

11/22/1959 • Sylvester Petro

A report on the May 1957 “McClellan Committee Hearings”: the hearing of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Improper Activities in Labor-Management Relations. “The author has chosen well the individual cases which illustrate the methods...

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Praxeology and Understanding: An Analysis of the Controversy in Austrian Economics

Tags: Mises U Required Readings

07/28/1990 • George A. Selgin

George Selgin argues that what Mises called praxeology is ultimately rooted in a conception of economic logic that is undeniable and not subject to the claims of those who would extend the idea of “subjectivism” beyond its appropriate bounds...

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Prices and Production and Other Works

Tags: Booms and Busts

09/15/1931 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Hayek was not only a leading champion of liberty in the 20th century. As this massive book reveals, he was also a great economist whose elaboration on monetary theory and the business cycle made him the leading foe of Keynesian theory and policy...

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Principles of Economics

07/20/1871 • Carl Menger

It was this book that kicked-off the Marginalist Revolution, which corrected theoretical errors of the old classical school. These errors concerned value theory, and they had sown enough confusion to make the dangerous ideology of Marxism seem...

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Principles of Economics: Study Guide

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Education

02/08/2008 • Jeremie T.A. Rostan

This study guide is intended to both newcomers and advanced readers. To the first, its summaries and comments following the divisions of Principles of Economics will serve as a digest and an explanation; to the latter, they will serve as an aid...

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Principles of Ethics: Anthology

08/29/1898 • Herbert Spencer

This two-volume treatise by the classic liberal political theorist and philosopher Herbert Spencer has been considered by many to be his most influential work. The full compilation of its parts lasted almost a half century from the early 1840s...

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Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments

Tags: Intermediate

06/01/1980 • Benjamin Constant

Principles of Politics was first published in 1815. It is by one of the great political thinkers of all time, a pioneer of classical liberalism. Thanks to the work of historian Ralph Raico, he is being discovered anew today. This translation of...

Private Property, Public Purpose

04/25/2019 • Henry Hazlitt

[ Chapter 19 of The Conquest of Poverty (1996)] The socialists and communists propose to cure poverty by seizing private property, particularly property in the means of production, and turning it over to be operated by the government. What the...

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Probleme der Wertlehre

07/20/1931 • Ludwig von Mises

Mises discusses the origins of the subjective theory of value. As developed by Menger, value theory was in a position to solve problems that the British classical economists could not answer.

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Profit and Loss

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10/22/2008 • Ludwig von Mises

In 1951, Mises gave an outstanding paper that made the summary case for the price system under capitalistic economic systems. In “Profit and Loss,” he explains how cost accounting is the critical institution that ferrets out social waste...

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Profits, Interest, and Investment

10/13/1975 • Friedrich A. Hayek

The essays collected in this volume are a selection from the various attempts made to develop the outline of a theory of industrial fluctuations contained in two of Hayek’s books on Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle and Prices and Production.

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Progress and Poverty

Tags: Money and Banks

11/06/1934 • Henry George

Henry George seeks to explain why poverty exists notwithstanding widespread advances in technology and even where there is a concentration of great wealth such as in cities.

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Property in a Humane Economy

01/27/1974 • Samuel L. Blumenfeld

This volume, dedicated as a memorial to Dr. F. A. “Baldy” Harper, consists of a number of papers delivered at several symposia sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies. The papers were selected principally on the basis of the directness...

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Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Tags: Free Markets

08/02/2009 • Jörg Guido Hülsmann • Stephan Kinsella

Rare is the scholar to inspire a festschrift — a volume of papers written by top specialists in honor of a major thinker-but this one is very special. It is sure to grow in importance as the years move on, for it contains phenomenal...

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Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Tags: Free Markets

08/02/2009 • Jörg Guido Hülsmann • Stephan Kinsella

Rare is the scholar to inspire a festschrift — a volume of papers written by top specialists in honor of a major thinker-but this one is very special. It is sure to grow in importance as the years move on, for it contains phenomenal...

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Prosperity and Depression

Tags: Booms and Busts

07/17/1946 • Gottfried Haberler

Are you serious about business cycle theory? In 1937, back when economists thought big and coherent thoughts about the boom-bust cycle, long before mainstream economists began to doubt the existence of theoretical universals, Professor Gottfried...

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Prosperity Through Competition

Tags: Free Markets

06/16/1958 • Ludwig Erhard

In postwar Germany, one great statesman led the fight for freedom: Ludwig Erhard. He was deeply influenced by Wilhelm Röpke, and drew heavily on the case for free markets made by Ludwig von Mises. He received his PhD from Franz Oppenheimer, the...

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Protection or Free Trade

Tags: Big Government, Free Markets

06/04/1886 • Henry George

Henry George endeavors to determine whether protection or free trade better accords with the interests of labor, and to bring to a common conclusion on this subject those who really desire to raise wages.

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Pseudo-Science and Historical Understanding

06/19/2018 • Ludwig von Mises

In the English language, the word “science” is usually applied only to the natural sciences. There is no doubt that there are fundamental differences between the natural sciences and the science of human action, sometimes called social science...