Books

Creating Order without the State

Tags: Free Markets

11/10/2017 • Jason Morgan

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 297–301 [ Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life by Edward P. Stringham] Leave people alone, and they will figure things out. This simple thesis, the heart of...

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Credit Policies of the Federal Reserve System

Tags: The Fed

08/17/1932 • Charles Hardy

In this historical book originally published in 1932, Charles Hardy examines the history of the Federal Reserve’s policies and their impact on the organization of the banking system in the post-World War I period. Mr. Hardy deals with the...

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Crises and Cycles

Tags: Booms and Busts

03/15/1936 • Wilhelm Röpke

It’s hard to say what is the most rare, most hard to find, most buried important book, in the history of the Austrian School. But this splendid and critically important treatise would certainly be among the nominees. Until this edition, this...

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Crisis and Leviathan

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, World History

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

This seminal treatise in the history of ideas demonstrates what has come to be known as the Higgs thesis: that government grows in periods of crisis, for example, war and depression. He demonstrates this with a detailed look at twentieth century...

Crony Capitalism in America

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Corporate Welfare, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 • Hunter Lewis

When private interests need a political favor, they know whom to call. When politicians need money, they also know whom to call. The people involved try to keep most of it concealed behind closed doors. This is the system that prevailed in...

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Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849

Tags: Cronyism and Corporatism, U.S. History

08/17/2021 • Patrick Newman

From the Introduction to Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849. The present book is an economic and political history of early America, describing government policies and their effects on marketplace activity. In particular...

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Debt: Private and Public, Good and Bad

Tags: Money and Banks

06/05/1938 • Sir Ernest Benn

From the author: The world would be a dismal place if everyone understood the technicalities of the Money Market. Most people know that they can more or less rely upon £3 a week, £1,000 a year or whatever it may be, and, being wholly ignorant of...

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Deep Freeze: Iceland’s Economic Collapse

Tags: Financial Markets, Global Economy

02/24/2011 • Philipp Bagus • David Howden

It was a modern thriving economy one day, and then, suddenly, the food disappeared from the shelves, the banks closed, and the ships stopped arriving. Iceland in 2008 experienced an unprecedented economic meltdown that struck fear in the hearts...

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Deep Freeze: Iceland’s Economic Collapse

Tags: Financial Markets, Global Economy

02/24/2011 • Philipp Bagus • David Howden

It was a modern thriving economy one day, and then, suddenly, the food disappeared from the shelves, the banks closed, and the ships stopped arriving. Iceland in 2008 experienced an unprecedented economic meltdown that struck fear in the hearts...

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Deeper Than You Think

Tags: Introductory

03/11/1967 • Leonard E. Read

Leonard Read implores that “Truth is not to be found in coercive arrangements.” This work spans a wide array of topics from Egoism and Altruism to comparisons of macro and micro economics, and demonstrates Leonard Read’s legendary dynamism in...

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Defend America First

Tags: Introductory, War and Foreign Policy, World History

01/01/2003 • Garet Garrett

The U.S. entry into World War II is one of the issues that American political culture considers to be settled and not discussable. This was not the case in the run up to the war. One group of writers and intellectuals, who led a mass movement...

Defending Liberty: Essays in Honor of David Gordon

Tags: Libertarianism, Philosophy

07/12/2022 • Douglas B. Rasmussen • Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

From the Introduction... The American notion [is] that the end of government is liberty, not happiness, or prosperity, or power, or the preservation of an historic inheritance, or the adaptation of national law to national character, or the...

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Defending Liberty: Essays in Honor of David Gordon

Tags: Libertarianism, Philosophy

07/12/2022 • Douglas B. Rasmussen • Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

From the Introduction... The American notion [is] that the end of government is liberty, not happiness, or prosperity, or power, or the preservation of an historic inheritance, or the adaptation of national law to national character, or the...

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Defending the Undefendable

05/01/2008 • Walter Block

Professor Block’s book is in a new edition from the Mises Institute, completely reset and beautifully laid out in an edition worthy of its contents. It is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial...

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Defending the Undefendable 2

Tags: Introductory

01/11/2016 • Walter Block

Walter Block has assembled thirty chapters defending behavior that is probably offensive to most Americans, such as dwarf tossing and stereotyping, and many that are downright illegal, such as dueling and smuggling. Plus, he’s provided us with...

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Defense, Controls, and Inflation

Tags: Money and Banks

11/01/1952 • Aaron Director

This book offers a transcript of the three-day conference on “The Economics of Mobilization” with a brief review of the issues raised, the conclusions reached, and agreement and disagreement expressed. A mobilization program is to be judged by...

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Deflation and Liberty

Tags: Money and Banks

10/17/2008 • Jörg Guido Hülsmann

[Also available in HTML format.] This monograph addresses a critically important issue: the prevailing view that deflation (falling prices and/or falling money stock) is a catastrophe that must be stopped. Jorg Guido Hulsmann shows that...

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Delusions of Power

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Taxes and Spending, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

Taking a close look at the dense fabric that our government weaves between war, state power, and economics, this collection of essays reveals the growing authority—and corruption—of the American state. Covering topics from the Lyndon Johnson...

Democracy: The God That Failed

Tags: Introductory, World History

01/11/2016 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

This sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than...

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Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined

10/15/1990 • Friedrich A. Hayek

What if the government let anyone use a currency of his or her choosing? What if the government permitted entrepreneurs to innovate in the monetary sector, such as by creating digital currencies or minting commodity money? This is precisely what...

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