Books

Liberty: Legacy of Truth

Tags: Introductory, Big Government

09/15/1978 • Leonard E. Read

Wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, “Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot.” The millions of despots, now in the driver’s seat, are swayed not by faith but by that type of ignorance displayed by witch doctors or medicine men and their...

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Limits of State Action

Tags: Introductory, Big Government

09/01/1969 • Wilhelm von Humboldt

The Limits of State Action, by “Germany’s greatest philosopher of freedom,” as F. A. Hayek called him, has an exuberance and attention to principle that make it a valuable introduction to liberal political thought. It is also crucial for an...

Lincoln Unmasked

Tags: U.S. History

10/10/2006 • Thomas J. DiLorenzo

DiLorenzo discusses how the Lincoln cult came into being and came to dominate national politics--and how completely far from the truth they have strayed. They have buried the reality of who he was and what he did in the service of a mythical...

Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture

Tags: Media and Culture

12/04/2009 • Paul A. Cantor • Stephen D. Cox

The economic interpretation of literature is dominated by ideas derived from Marxism — ideas that demonize the market as the enemy of all that is good. This book, edited by well-known literary critics Paul Cantor (University of Virginia) and...

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Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture

Tags: Media and Culture

12/04/2009 • Paul A. Cantor • Stephen D. Cox

The economic interpretation of literature is dominated by ideas derived from Marxism — ideas that demonize the market as the enemy of all that is good. This book, edited by well-known literary critics Paul Cantor (University of Virginia) and...

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Lost Continetti

Tags: Media and Culture, Old Right, U.S. History

07/22/2022 • David Gordon

The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism By Matthew Continetti Basic Books, 2022 503 pp. Why should readers of The Austrian be interested in this book? At first glance, it appears that we shouldn’t be. Though the history of...

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Ludwig von Mises as a Social Rationalist

07/20/2005 • Joseph T. Salerno

From The Review of Austrian Economics Vol. 4 (1990): 26–54. For the most part Ludwig von Mises’s writings on society and social evolution have been ignored by the participants in the current revivals of both Austrian economics and classical...

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Ludwig von Mises on Money and Inflation

Tags: Money and Banks

03/11/2010 • Ludwig von Mises • Bettina Bien Greaves

In the 1960s, Ludwig von Mises lectured often on money and inflation. Bettina Bien Greaves was there taking shorthand. She has been working to transcribe them for a very long time. At last the results are here and they are fantastic. To have...

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Ludwig von Mises on Money and Inflation

Tags: Money and Banks

03/11/2010 • Ludwig von Mises • Bettina Bien Greaves

In the 1960s, Ludwig von Mises lectured often on money and inflation. Bettina Bien Greaves was there taking shorthand. She has been working to transcribe them for a very long time. At last the results are here and they are fantastic. To have...

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Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero

Tags: Biographies

06/01/1988 • Murray N. Rothbard

Witten by Murray Rothbard, this essay discusses and celebrates the life and work of one of the great creative minds of our century: Ludwig von Mises.

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Macro-Economic Thinking and the Market Economy

Tags: Financial Markets

08/15/1973 • Ludwig M. Lachmann

The market economy is under relentless and heavy criticism. Some of these criticisms are due to ignorance. Some, however, show a remarkably high degree of skill and sophistication. This book is devoted to a critical evaluation of some of the...

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Making Economic Sense

Tags: Global Economy, U.S. Economy

06/01/1995 • Murray N. Rothbard

Do you ever watch the business news and think: what would Murray Rothbard say about this? He remained a news junky all his life, even while working on his grand scholarly treatises. He was no academic snob; he believed, like Mises, that...

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Man and Nature in America

Tags: The Environment, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

06/16/1963 • Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.

From the author: I have written Man and Nature in America in the hope of providing today’s readers with some historical perspective on the problem implied in this title. Since I am an historian and not a scientist, I cannot claim expert...

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Man vs. The Welfare State

Tags: Big Government

06/15/1970 • Henry Hazlitt

In this 1969 work, Henry Hazlitt explains why politicians who promise salvation through government are dangerous.

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Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard

Tags: Biographies

01/01/1988 • Walter Block • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

In 1986, a remarkable party was held on Murray Rothbard’s sixtieth birthday, and papers written in his honor were presented. Two years later the book was released. It contained many wonderful essays--both scholarly and humorous--on his work and...

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Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard

Tags: Biographies

01/01/1988 • Walter Block • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

In 1986, a remarkable party was held on Murray Rothbard’s sixtieth birthday, and papers written in his honor were presented. Two years later the book was released. It contained many wonderful essays--both scholarly and humorous--on his work and...

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Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate, Featured Book

01/01/1962 • Murray N. Rothbard

Murray N. Rothbard’s great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austrian economic theory, a...

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Market Theory and the Price System

06/15/1973 • Israel M. Kirzner

Israel Kirzner’s outstanding book on price theory is back in print. It is been very difficult to obtain it for decades, even though it is surely the best textbook on Austrian price theory ever written. The prose is crystal clear and the...

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Marxism and the Manipulation of Man

11/18/2019 • Ludwig von Mises

It is an astonishing fact that a philosophy like Marxism, which attacks the whole social system, remained for many decades more or less unattacked and uncontested. Karl Marx was not very well known in his lifetime and his writings remained...

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Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction

01/01/2006 • Ludwig von Mises

We can’t sit under Mises at his famous Vienna private seminar. We can’t go back in time and attend his New York seminar, or follow him to his speaking engagements that he held in the 50s and 60s. But thanks to this second volume in a thrilling...

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