Books

Nation, State, and Economy

01/01/1919 • Ludwig von Mises

Mises takes up the question of the proper political order to sustain the peace in the age of democracy. It was published less than a year after Austria's defeat in World War I, and examines and compares prewar and postwar political and economic conditions.

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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...

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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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Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

Tags: Introductory, Big Government

06/28/2010 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

The political agenda of the old liberals was not merely to limit the size of the government but also its scope. That means that lower orders of government have rights against higher ones. In the American context, that means that the state can...

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Tags: Big Government, World History

07/23/1944 • Ludwig von Mises

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent...

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On Doing the Right Thing

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1928 • Albert Jay Nock

This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his “Anarchist’s Progress,” “Thoughts on Revolution,” “The Decline of Conversation,” and other classics by this great American essayist and influential...

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On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises

Tags: Biographies

02/20/1957 • Mary Sennholz

This was the first Festschrift (1956) in Mises’s honor, and the essays it contains have proven fruitful sources for decades. This reprint features a new introduction. Preeminently, it contains Rothbard’s reconstruction of utility and welfare...

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On Liberty, Society, and Politics

Tags: Media and Culture

06/01/1992 • William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner is the “forgotten man” of American intellectual history and of the history of liberty. A thinker of extraordinary power, and a person who developed and integrated and thrilling view of the place of liberty in the...

On Money

08/27/2019 • Ferdinando Galiani

Della Moneta is divided into five sections, covering what are still seen today as the standard aspects of monetary theory. These include the origin of money, its value (including inflation and deflation, interest, and monetary policy.

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On the Origins of Money

Tags: Money and Banks

11/17/2009 • Carl Menger

Written in the same year that he testified before the Currency Commission in Austria-Hungary, and published in English in 1892, Carl Menger explains that it is not government edicts that create money but instead the marketplace. Individuals...

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One Is a Crowd

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1952 • Frank Chodorov

This is a treasure: One Is a Crowd. It collects Frank Chodorov’s most profound essays on the topic of individualism, many of which have otherwise been unjustly lost to history. The reader will be riveted by his biographical essay on the meaning...

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