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A History of Money and Banking in the United States by Murray Rothbard

History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

01/01/2002 Murray N. Rothbard

The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose credit, reckless...

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Honest Money

Tags: Money and Banks

03/06/2011 Gary North

Lots of people are harassed routinely by ministers and other believers who imagine that the Bible favors inflationary schemes, bans the paying and receiving of interest, and requires a government monopoly on money to fund glorious government...

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How Can Europe Survive

Tags: Global Economy

01/01/1955 Hans F. Sennholz

Like a coin on whose two sides two different symbols are impressed, government planning and the disintegration of the world market are two aspects of a single problem. The upper side of the coin, visible and familiar to everybody, shows the...

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How Capitalism Saved America

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

01/11/2016 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Thomas DiLorenzo has a marvelous analytical talent and a knack for drawing the reader’s attention to the material that matters. His new book employs this talent in defense of the whole history of free enterprise in America. How long have we...

How Diplomats Make War

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/15/1915 Francis Neilson

Francis Neilson (1867–1961) was a member of the British Parliament, one of the last truly educated British aristocrats, a colleague and friend of Albert Jay Nock’s, and an amazing historian and stylist. He is also the author of this historic...

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How Do We Know

Tags: Introductory, Education, Free Markets

10/11/1981 Leonard E. Read

The master educator of liberty reflects on learning, and other forms of self-improvement. In the title essay, Leonard Read writes, “Everyone who pursues an improved understanding of how freedom works its wonders makes a contribution to a higher...

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How Inflation Destroys Civilization

Tags: Inflation

05/01/2024 Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Fiat inflation leaves a characteristic cultural and spiritual stain on human society. Guido Hülsmann takes a closer look at some aspects of this legacy.

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How Keynes Took Over the World

Tags: Big Government, World History

06/09/2018 Murray N. Rothbard

Keynes’s General Theory was, at least in the short run, one of the most dazzlingly successful books of all time. In a few short years, his “revolutionary” theory had conquered the economics profession and soon had transformed public policy...

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How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men and Women Told by Themselves

Tags: Biographies

03/23/1901 Orison Swett Marden

The Gilded Age produced not only some of the richest men and women of all time; its freedom and opportunities built a nation of people of superlative character. This fantastic book from 1901 provides an in-depth look at the lives and choices of...

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How to Keep Our Liberty

02/27/1952 Raymond Moley

From the author: The people of this nation are today presented with a choice between two forms of political and economic life. One form is that of our traditions, in which individual liberty prevails and is guarded by “the long, still grasp of...

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How to Think about the Economy: A Primer

08/17/2022 Per Bylund

This little book was written to accomplish something big: economic literacy. It is intentionally kept very short to be inviting rather than intimidating. If I managed to meet this bar, you, the reader, will gain life-changing understanding of how the economy works in practically no time.

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Human Action

Tags: Featured, Advanced

09/14/1949 Ludwig von Mises

The masterpiece first appeared in German in 1940 and then disappeared, only to reappear in English in 1949. It was a sensation, the largest and most scientific defense of human freedom ever published. As is well known, Mises’s book is the best...

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I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians

Tags: Biographies

01/04/2011 Walter Block

Walter Block leaned on 82 of the world’s most prominent libertarian thinkers and asked them to tell their life stories with an eye to intellectual development. The result is the most comprehensive collection of libertarian autobiographies ever...

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Ideas on Liberty: Essays in Honor of Paul L. Poirot

Tags: Biographies, Education

08/23/1987 Robert G. Anderson

Paul Poirot is remembered by most people as the thirty-year editor of The Freeman, the monthly journal published by the Foundation for Economic Education since 1956. But Paul Poirot was much more than just an editor. Dr. Poirot was an...

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Illusions of Point Four

03/06/1950 Henry Hazlitt

In his inaugural address of 20 January 1949, President Truman announced what has since become the famous “Point Four”. No sooner was this announced than the brains of Washington bureaucrats began to bubble with grandiose schemes for pouring...

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Imperialism and Social Classes

Tags: World History

06/15/1919 Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empires and applies his insight to explaining...

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In Defense of “Extreme Apriorism”

03/22/2018 Murray N. Rothbard

[Murray Rothbard wrote this in 1956. It originally appeared in the Southern Economic Journal (January 1957) and was reprinted in Rothbard’s, The Logic of Action One (1997) and Economic Controversies (2011).] The stimulating methodological...

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In Defense of Advertising

Tags: Media and Culture

05/31/1994 Jerry Kirkpatrick

In Defense of Advertising is a theoretical defense based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand and the economics of Ludwig von Mises. It argues that the proper foundations of advertising are reason, ethical egoism, and laissez-faire capitalism. Its...

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In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918-1938

Tags: Corporate Welfare, U.S. Economy

07/29/1997 Butler Shaffer

This extremely important study by Butler Shaffer—professor of law and economist—will change the way you think of the relationship between the state and business. It makes a deep inquiry into the attitudes of business leaders toward competition...

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Inclined To Liberty: The Futile Attempt to Suppress the Human Spirit

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory

11/14/2008 Louis E. Carabini

“No one should be allowed to own a yacht.” “The salaries of company executives are too high” “No one should be allowed to inherit wealth.” We are surrounded every day by anti-capitalist clichés. We encounter them in casual conversation...

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