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The Theory of Idle Resources by William H. Hutt

The Theory of Idle Resources

William H. Hutt
W.H. Hutt’s Theory of Idle Resources was first published in 1939, surely one of the earliest responses to Keynes’s General Theory. Hutt goes for the heart of Keynes’s prescription for recovery, which was to get idle resources moving, whether...
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The Theory of Money and Credit

Tags: Money and Banks
Ludwig von Mises

Mises shows how money had its origin in the market, and how its value is based on its usefulness as a commodity in exchange. In a step-by-step manner, Mises presents the case for sound money with no inflation and presents the beginnings of a full-scale business cycle theory. 

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The Theory of Political Economy by W. Stanley Jevons

The Theory of Political Economy

W. Stanley Jevons
The science of Political Economy rests upon a few notions of an apparently simple character. Utility, wealth, value, commodity, labour, land, capital, are the elements of the subject; and whoever has a thorough comprehension of their nature must...
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The Theory of Social Economy by Gustav Cassel

The Theory of Social Economy

Gustav Cassel
From the author: The present edition includes all the additions and improvements which post-war development has induced me to make in my exposition of the theory of money. It contains in particular a summary of my theory of Purchasing Power...
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The Trade of Nations by Michael Heilperin

The Trade of Nations

Tags: Global Economy
Michael A. Heilperin
Originaly published in 1947, Heilperin’s The Trade of Nations represented — in the words of the original Preface — “an attempt to re-examine the problems of international trade, finance, and money, with special reference to the tasks of peace...
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The Trend of Economic Thinking

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Friedrich A. Hayek
Hayek was not only a seminal thinker in his own right. As a critic, commentator, guide, and teacher of ideas in general, he was a master of the history of ideas in general. This volume collects his writings on the ideas of others, and through...
The TVA Idea by Dean Russell

The TVA Idea

Tags: Big Government, Taxes and Spending
Dean Russell
From the author: The issue of government ownership of the means of production is no longer open to discussion in Russia. That issue was decisively settled by revolution. The issue of government ownership of the means of production is still open...
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The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science by Mises

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

Ludwig von Mises
If Mises has an unheralded masterpiece, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science is it. There are two senses in which this book is indeed ultimate: it deals with the very core of economics as a science, and it is the last book that he wrote...
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The Underground Economy by Hans F. Sennholz

The Underground Economy

Tags: Free Markets
Hans F. Sennholz
There is a bustling and shadowy world where jobs, services, and business transactions are conducted by word of mouth and paid for in cash to avoid scrutiny by government officials. It is called the “underground economy,” which is as old as...
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Value of Money Anderson

The Value of Money

Tags: Money and Banks
Benjamin Anderson
Benjamin Anderson, American Austrian, was among a handful of economists, led by Ludwig von Mises in his pioneering work The Theory of Money and Credit in 1912, who set out to integrate monetary theory into a general theory of value. Anderson...
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The Value of Money by Tjardus Greidanus

The Value of Money

Tags: Money and Banks
Tjardus Greidanus
From the author: In the first section the theories of a number of writers, who have brought the value problem either nearer to or further from its solution, will be successively treated. In view of the immense volume of the material in the...
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The Vampire Economy, 1939

The Vampire Economy

Tags: World History
Günter Reimann
Here is a study of the actual workings of business under national socialism. Written in 1939, Reimann discusses the effects of heavy regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, national economic planning, and attacks on private...
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