Books

End the Fed

Tags: Introductory, The Fed, U.S. Economy

09/16/2009 • Ron Paul

A blast against central banking this powerful hasn’t been seen since the 19th century. The Fed itself has never been subjected to such a whithering critique. And it is from a man who has been fighting the Fed his entire political career. in fact...

Energy: The Master Resource

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Robert L. Bradley Jr. • Richard W. Fulmer

Robert Bradley, a leading free market energy economist, has in collaboration with Richard Fulmer put together an outstanding book that covers the huge subject of energy, beginning with answers to the most fundamental questions (What is energy...

Energy: The Master Resource

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Robert L. Bradley Jr. • Richard W. Fulmer

Robert Bradley, a leading free market energy economist, has in collaboration with Richard Fulmer put together an outstanding book that covers the huge subject of energy, beginning with answers to the most fundamental questions (What is energy...

Epistemological Problems of Economics

01/01/1933 • Ludwig von Mises

“The characteristic feature of this age of destructive wars and social disintegration is the revolt against economics.” So writes Ludwig von Mises in his most thorough defense of the method and scope of economic science. In this treatise, he...

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Equilibrium, Profit and Loss, and Entrepreneurship

Tags: The Entrepreneur

01/22/2018 • Jörg Guido Hülsmann

(Excerpt from chapter 17 of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism , pp. 770–73.) It was through the writings of Carl Menger and Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk that Mises had come to understand the market economy as a rational social order in which all...

Essays in European Economic Thought

Tags: The Entrepreneur, Money and Banks

06/15/1960 • Louise Sommer

In this 1960 volume, Louise Sommer brought together for the first time in English translation some of the most brilliant essays in economics written in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, i n the hope of furthering among the...

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Essays on Freedom and Power

Tags: Big Government

07/22/1949 • Lord Acton

Freedom and Power collects Lord Acton’s most important writings on a theme that would define his reputation for more than a century: the corruptions of power. In addition, the reader learns from his love of liberty as the great creative force in...

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Essentials of Economic Theory

10/15/1907 • John Bates Clark

John Bates Clark was an American adherent of the Marginalist School who engaged the Austrians and learned from them. He delivered many blows against the Historical School in favor of the idea of pure theory. He was also one of the first...

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Essentials of Economics

Tags: Free Markets

02/21/1956 • Faustino Ballvé

Faustino Ballvé was a remarkable thinker and economist, educated in Spain and England and teaching and practicing law in Mexico City. He was there when Ludwig von Mises came to speak on a lecture tour. The talks that Ballvé heard sparked a new...

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Ex America: The 50th Anniversary of the People’s Pottage

Tags: Introductory, Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

07/01/2004 • Garet Garrett

This book is the darkest of Garrett’s works, but he tells the full truth about the disaster of the New Deal. It contains three eloquent and long essays: “The Revolution Was,” which explains how the revolution came to the U.S. “within the form”;...

Exchange, Prices, and Production in Hyper-Inflation: Germany 1920-1923

Tags: Money and Banks

08/19/1930 • Frank D. Graham

This large-scale study of the German hyper-inflation is definitive in the English language. Written by a professor at Princeton University, and published in 1930, Frank Graham’s treatment was so accurate and incisive that Ludwig von Mises...

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Fabianism in the Political Life of Britain - 1919-1931

Tags: World History

07/17/1954 • Margaret McCarran

From the author: “The Fabian Society consists of Socialists,” as the first line of the Basis on the flyleaf of many a Fabian Tract declares. A Society which bears the heritage of Benthamite radicalism, it rose with strange genius in the 1880’s...

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Failure of the “New Economics”

09/03/1959 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the...

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Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics

Tags: Intermediate

01/11/2016 • Alejandro A. Chafuen

In this second edition of his seminal study, Alejandro Chafuen covers the economic writings of the Late Scholastics working in the tradition of St.Thomas Aquinas, those whom J. Schumpeter called the first economists. Writing long before Adam...

Fascism versus Capitalism

Tags: Big Government

11/26/2013 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Fascism vs. Capitalism: The Central Ideological Conflict of Our Times “Fascism” has become a term of general derision and rebuke. It is tossed casually in the direction of anything a critic happens to dislike. But fascism is a real political and...

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Fiat Money Inflation in France

Tags: Money and Banks, World History

06/15/1933 • Andrew Dickson White

In Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White presents the still-largely-unknown story of a major factor behind the French Revolution. As John Mackay writes in the foreword, It records the most gigantic attempt ever made in the history...

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For a New Liberty: Discussion Questions

Tags: Law, Libertarianism, Politics, Strategy

04/17/2024 • Jonathan Newman

This guide is based on Jonathan Newman’s fall 2023 Mises Book Club discussions of Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto.

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For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Tags: Featured, Introductory, Legal System

07/20/1973 • Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, their ideologies, and their central plans for state power against people. Libertarianism is Rothbard's radical alternative that says state power is unworkable and immoral and ought to be curbed and finally abolished.

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Foreign Policy and the American Mind

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

03/16/1978 • Robert A. Nisbet

It is only too clear that behind the tactical and strategical problems of our relations with the rest of the world-not to emphasize the occasional humiliations-lie some major difficulties of perspective. They are most plainly political...

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Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn

Tags: U.S. Economy, U.S. History

10/05/1995 • John T. Flynn • Gregory P. Pavlik, ed.

This collection of essays and articles provides a small sampling of Flynn’s work, as well as a look at some of the great themes that animated the Old Right. The articles and essays in this volume were chosen to highlight Flynn’s advocacy of...

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