Books

Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy

01/01/2002 • Robert P. Murphy

Among the most advanced topics in the literature in the Austro-libertarian milieu is that which deals with the workings of the fully free society, that is, the society with no state, or anarcho-capitalism. Robert Murphy deals with this head on...

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Choice in Currency

02/15/1976 • Friedrich A. Hayek

A path-breaking essay by Hayek, newly in print in cooperation with the Institute of Economic Affairs, this piece first appeared in 1976, during an inflationary bout in the U.S.. Hayek saw that it was crucial to bring the forces of competition to...

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Christianity and War

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture, War and Foreign Policy

01/14/2008 • Laurence M. Vance

A main support group for Bush’s “war on terror” and war on Iraq and other nations were evangelical Christians. They cited a religious justification for attacking Islam and claim Biblical and moral support for their position. They were the...

Civilian and the Military

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.

Do you have doubts about American wars abroad? Do you worry about their cost, the drain in American resources, the resentments they foster abroad, the death and destruction they bring on all sides? Do you have a sense that these are not truly...

Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School

Tags: Intermediate, Featured, World History

02/15/2012 • Ralph Raico

Here is the book to learn classical liberalism from the ground up, written by the foremost historian in the Austrian tradition — Ralph Raico. Every student, scholar, and freedom fan must have a copy of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian...

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Cogitations from Albert Jay Nock

05/26/1985 • Albert Jay Nock

This collection was selected and arranged by Robert M. Thornton, who writes of it: We are not out to save the world. Neither is our aim to idolize a man or endorse every idea embraced by AJN. Nock had a way of setting ideas in motion and then...

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Collected Works of Carl Menger (in German): Four Volumes

08/24/1934 • Carl Menger

These four volumes have been selected not only for their outstanding importance in the history of economic thought, but also because of their previous inaccessibility to the majority of students in the field of economics.

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Collectivism: A False Utopia

04/15/1937 • William Henry Chamberlin

The book attempts to set forth a reasoned case for the proposition that collectivism, both in its communist and in its fascist forms, is a false Utopia, on the basis of the demonstrable facts of the Soviet, Germany, and Italian experiments...

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Collectivist Economic Planning

Tags: Big Government

07/28/1935 • Friedrich A. Hayek

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises dropped a bombshell on the European economic world with his article called “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” It argued that socialism was impossible as an economic system. It set off two decades of...

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Comes The Dawn

Tags: Introductory

01/11/1976 • Leonard E. Read

Libertarians may seem few and far between today, but they are not nearly as isolated now as they were when Leonard Read (1898–1983) was working to spread the freedom philosophy. Yet, although Read saw socialism spreading all around, he knew it...

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Commerce and Government Considered in Their Mutual Relationship

Tags: Intermediate

06/01/1776 • Étienne Bonnot Abbé de Condillac

This work is only recently translated into English but it shows that he should be held in high esteem, precisely as Rothbard wrote in his History of Economic Thought. Condillac’s Commerce and Government is one of the milestones in the history of...

Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism before Adam Smith

Tags: Introductory, World History

01/11/2016 • Henry C. Clark

This volume has collected the best of the best of early economic thought, and thereby has rooted economics in the broadest range of history dating back centuries before the Industrial Revolution. Represented here are: William Walwyn, Pieter de...

Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Ryan McMaken

The Western genre has long been associated with right-wing and libertarian politics, and is said to promote individualism and free-market economics. In a new look at the Western, however, Ryan McMaken shows that the Western is in fact often anti...

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Common Sense Economics

01/28/1956 • L. Albert Hahn

Professor Hahn, one of the greatest but least known Austrian economists of his generation, offers a fantastic refutation of Keynesian macroeconomics, including its wild obsession with effective demand, and also a systematic presentation of the...

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Competition and Entrepreneurship

Tags: Introductory

01/11/2016 • Israel M. Kirzner

Written the year of Mises’s death, this is the book that brought new prominence to the Austrian theory of the entrepreneur. Kirzner views him as the discoverer of opportunities in the competitive process, and contrasts this view with the general...

Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State

Tags: Big Government, Health

04/28/1950 • Melchior Palyi

The doctrine of the Welfare State is being offered in the United States as a bright and shiny new.invention. It is being accepted by some on the assumption that it is a device with inherent capacity to solve the complicated problems of mankind,-...

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Conceived in Liberty

Tags: Homeschool Resource, U.S. History

06/15/1979 • Murray N. Rothbard

Click here for Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791 There’s never been a better time to remember the revolutionary and even libertarian roots of the American founding, and there’s no better guide to what this means in the...

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Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791

10/24/2019 • Murray N. Rothbard

Murray Rothbard was not just a remarkable economist and political thinker, but one of the best revisionist historians of the twentieth century. One of his greatest career accomplishments was Conceived in Liberty, a masterful analysis of the...

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Confessions of a Capitalist

06/05/1925 • Sir Ernest Benn

From the author: Three things may be said about this book upon which there must, I think, be general agreement, and I mention them to save my critics trouble. The first is that the book is in bad taste, dealing as it does with matters which, by...

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Control or Economic Law

Tags: Free Markets, Legal System

02/18/2010 • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk was a giant of the Austrian School. Finally, here is an approachable book by him. His masterworks on interest and capital run up to 1000-plus pages. Everyone should read them, as Mises said, but of course it is a bit much...

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