Books

The Free Man’s Library

Tags: Free Markets

06/15/1956 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt did an incredible thing with this book. He created in a mere 180 pages an anthology of short reviews of 550 books on economics and politics, old and new, from the point of view of an Austro-libertarian. Hazlitt wrote it because he...

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The Free Market and Its Enemies

Tags: Intermediate, Free Markets

01/11/2016 • Ludwig von Mises

This is a “new” book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a writer...

The Free Market and Its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

03/25/2004 • Ludwig von Mises

This is a “new” book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a writer...

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The Free Market and Its Enemy

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

07/15/1965 • Leonard E. Read

Read explores “the miraculous workings of tiny creativities, the ultimate constituents of the free market, that institution on which depend all liberties, and thus man’s emergence. And [the] State must have its perversions diagnosed if we are...

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The Free Market Reader

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

08/29/1988 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

One of the best introductions to libertarian/free market thought and is “straightforward, logical, and fun.” What you will find here are one hundred plus short essays on every topic related to free-market economics, all from the years of the...

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The Freedom Answer Book: How the Government Is Taking Away Your Constitutional Freedom

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Legal System

01/11/2016 • Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

The government is taking away basic freedoms granted under the Constitution. This helpful guide gives a clear vision of what your rights are and how you can protect them. In order to truly understand the freedoms we have as people of the United...

The Freedom Freeway

Tags: Introductory

09/15/1979 • Leonard E. Read

A freeway is defined as a “multi-lane highway designed to move traffic along smoothly and quickly.” The freedom freeway is strikingly similar: It is a multi-million-Iane politico-economic highway, along which speed goods and services, as well as...

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The Freeman Book

Tags: Media and Culture

03/15/1924 • Albert Jay Nock

Yes, that’s right: The Freeman. This was the original, as edited by Albert Jay Nock in the early 1920s. It was radical, far-reaching, topical, and bracing in every way. Here we have a collection of what Nock himself considered to be the best of...

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The German Question

Tags: Big Government, World History

05/31/1946 • Wilhelm Röpke

The German Question by Wilhelm Röpke is the book that inspired the postwar economic reform in Germany — which Röpke himself did not believe had gone nearly far enough. It came out in 1945 in Switzerland, one year after Mises’s Omnipotent...

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The Global Currency Plot

Tags: Socialism, Strategy

02/16/2023 • Thorsten Polleit

Democratic socialism—the ideology that dominates the world today—aspires to become a world state. The route toward it requires a single world currency to be created. Might this become a reality? And if so, how can it be averted? This book aims to find answers to these questions.

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The Gold Standard Act of 1900 and After

03/24/2018 • Murray N. Rothbard

Any reform legislation had to wait until after the elections of 1898, for the gold forces were not yet in control of Congress. In the autumn, the executive committee of the Indianapolis Monetary Convention mobilized its forces, calling on no...

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The Gold Standard and Its Future

Tags: World History

01/27/1935 • T.E. Gregory

Between 1919 and 1925 a co-operative and successful effort was made to replace the monetary systems of the world upon a:firm foundation, and the international gold standard was thereby restored. In the last few years a variety of circumstances...

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The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks

03/28/1992 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The world’s financial system is in a precarious state, and everywhere the cry is heard for reform. The contributors to this notable anthology argue for one particular sort of reform, a return to the gold standard. They write from the perspective...

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The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Booms from Colonial Days to the Present Times

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

08/12/1932 • A. M. Sakolski

Those who lived through the huge speculative real estate bubble of the 1990s through 2008 might have imagined that it was unprecedented. Not so. Far from it! This definitive history of land speculation provides a well-documented but hugely...

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The Great Austrian Economists

Tags: Intermediate, Featured, Biographies

11/22/1999 • Randall G. Holcombe

The Austrian tradition began formally with Carl Menger’s 1871 work, Principles of Economics. But its roots stretch back to the late-Scholastic period, when philosophers first began to think systematically about the relationship between human...

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The Great Deformation

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Free Markets, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 • David Stockman

David Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution meant to restore sound money principles to the U.S. government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare. In The Great Deformation, Stockman describes how...

The Great Depression

06/15/1934 • Lionel Robbins

In 1934, when Lionel Robbins wrote The Great Depression, he was a committed advocate of the Austrian School of economics. This would later change, but in this book he brilliantly applies the Austrian theory of the business cycle to explain the...

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The Great Fiction

03/04/2021 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

This book is a compendium, a cross section of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s best work across several decades arranged in one accessible volume. It originally was published 2012. Six additional chapters have been added to the current edition. 

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The Group vs. the Collective

04/18/2018 • Ludwig von Mises

[Excerpt from Epistemological Problems of Economics, chap. 1] The reproach of individualism is commonly leveled against economics on the basis of an alleged irreconcilable conflict between the interests of society and those of the individual...

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The History of Banks

Tags: Money and Banks, World History

07/22/1971 • Richard Hildreth

This book discusses the history of banking beginning in Venice and Genoa. It continues by demonstrating the advantages and necessity of free competition in the business of banking.

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