Books

Money, Method, and the Market Process

Tags: Free Markets

07/31/1990 • Ludwig von Mises • Richard M. Ebeling

This volume might be called the Mises Reader , for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like “Observations on the Cooperative Movement,” have not been published previously...

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Money, Method, and the Market Process

Tags: Free Markets

07/31/1990 • Ludwig von Mises • Richard M. Ebeling

This volume might be called the Mises Reader , for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like “Observations on the Cooperative Movement,” have not been published previously...

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Money: Its Connection with Rising and Falling Prices

Tags: Money and Banks

07/01/1932 • Edwin Cannan

To endeavor to acquire some clear notion of what makes the value of money change has become the duty of all who think themselves capable of expressing useful opinions on economic affairs. The following pages embody an attempt to assist in this...

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Money: Sound and Unsound

Tags: Money and Banks

10/07/2010 • Joseph T. Salerno

Ludwig von Mises said that there can never be too much of a good theory. Salerno proves it in this sweeping and nearly comprehensive book on applied Austrian monetary theory. He uses the Mises/Rothbard theory of money to reinterpret historical...

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Murray N. Rothbard vs. The Philosophers: Unpublished Writings on Hayek, Mises, Strauss, and Polanyi

Tags: Biographies

11/17/2009 • Roberta A. Modugno

Here is Rothbard’s stunning mind at work on some of the most serious topics in philosophy, economics, and politics, originally crafted as private memos. The advantage here is that you get super-candid evaluations of the thought of the giants...

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Murray N. Rothbard: In Memoriam

Tags: Biographies

06/01/1995 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

In perusing the essays in this volume, one reads over and over of Rothbard’s enthusiasm, his optimism, his zest for life, and especially his sense of humor. He was an enthusiast for many things—Austrian economics, libertarianism, politics, chess...

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My Years with Ludwig von Mises

Tags: Biographies

04/01/1984 • Margit von Mises

A moving account of her life with “Lu,” from their first days in Vienna to his death in New York in 1973. The reader learns that Mises was a warm and gentle husband, in addition to being a great mind. The author reports interesting anecdotes on...

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Nation, Migration, and Trade: Essays on Mises and the Classical Economists

Tags: Protectionism and Free Trade

09/03/2020 • Joseph T. Salerno

Two essays by Mises, "Nationalism, the Right to Self-determination and the Problem of Immigration" and "The Nationalist Case for Free Trade, in the Words of Classical Economists."

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Nation, State, and Economy

01/01/1919 • Ludwig von Mises

This was Mises’s second book. It was written following his military service in World War I. It is also his first book that dealt with political themes—and began Mises’s full-scale launch into the fight against collectivism that would be a theme...

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National Economy and Rotary

Tags: Global Economy

06/29/2010 • Ludwig von Mises

[In 1931, the International Rotary held its annual convention in Vienna, Austria. For the meeting, Rotary issued a tabloid. It contained information about Rotary’s agenda for that convention, its international activities, and articles by Rotary...

Nationalökonomie: Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens

05/09/1940 • Ludwig von Mises

Here is the German original of what later became Human Action. It was published first in 1940 after Mises’s years in exile in Geneva.

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Nations by Consent

10/10/2018 • Murray N. Rothbard

Libertarians tend to focus on two important units of analysis: the individual and the state. And yet, one of the most dramatic and significant events of our time has been the reemergence — with a bang — in the last five years of a third and much...

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Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture

05/28/2013 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

This monograph engages the long-running controversy about the origin of the state. Hoppe adopts the theory that extends from a Rothbardian view of the role of elites in society and their monopolistic tendencies. He further maps out a strategy...

Never a Dull Moment

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

08/02/2016 • Murray N. Rothbard

[ From the Introduction by Justin Raimondo.] Murray Rothbard was a true polymath. He wasn’t just the number one theoretician of the modern libertarian movement — author of the monumental Man, Economy, and State; Conceived in Liberty, a four...

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Never Ask The End

03/06/1933 • Isabel Paterson

Paterson’s 1933 fictional account of Marta Brown and Pauline Gardiner—two American women in Paris. Roberts Tapley, Bookman, January 1933: Abundantly garnished with good things of Mrs. Paterson’s own and good things she has gleaned here and there...

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New Directions in Austrian Economics

11/22/1978 • Louis M. Spadaro

This collection first appeared in the midst of the American Austrian revival, and its insights are constantly culled by modern students. In it, Austrian economists examine technical aspects of money, interest, capital and business cycles, and...

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Not a Zero-Sum Game: The Paradox of Exchange

Tags: Introductory

07/29/2007 • Manuel F. Ayau

The key to understanding how society comes to be, works without central direction, and develops into a thriving civilization can be understood through the least understood idea in economics: the division of labor through comparative advantage...

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Notes and Recollections: With the Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics

Tags: Introductory, Biographies

01/11/2016 • Ludwig von Mises

Written between 1940 and 1941, shortly after he arrived in the United States, Notes and Recollections is in effect Mises’s pre-1940 intellectual autobiography. This work reveals how Mises developed his theories, wrote his books, lectured, and...

Notes on Democracy

Tags: Intermediate

01/11/2016 • H. L. Mencken

This book should come with a warning label. It is surely one of the most bracing books on politics in the history of the English language. There is more truth in these pages than most Americans are willing to face. What Mencken delivers here is...

Notes on Epistemology

05/25/1952 • John J. Toohey

Of Notes on Epistemology, Murray Rothbard writes: The unique place of reason in natural-law philosophy has been affirmed by the modern Thomistic philosopher, the late Father John Toohey. Toohey defined sound philosophy as follows: “Philosophy...

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