Books

Free Banking: Theory, History, and a Laissez-Faire Model

Tags: Money and Banks, U.S. History

07/29/1993 • Larry J. Sechrest

Free Banking: Theory, History and a Laissez-Faire Model is a magnificent work, now rescued from undeserved obscurity with this new edition. Published in 1993, it is a formalization and extension of literature in the free banking area, with...

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Free Market Economics: A Syllabus

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Free Markets

01/01/1975 • Bettina Bien Greaves

This is a complete economics education for high-school age students. It provides lessons, study questions, activities, and an excellent list of readings for each topic under consideration. Bettina chose well because the readings all hold up...

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Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Free Markets

04/10/1975 • Bettina Bien Greaves

Bettina Bien Greaves put this volume together as a one-stop primer in economics that includes the best economic writing she had run across. They are arranged by topic to cover the division of labor, prices, profits, property, competition, saving...

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Free Prices Now! Fixing the Economy by Abolishing the Fed

Tags: Introductory, Global Economy

01/11/2016 • Hunter Lewis

Free Prices Now! begins by asking why the human race is still so poor. How can it be that billions still lack even enough to eat? It then provides the answer. A prosperous society is a cooperative society. Cooperation in turn depends on trust...

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Freedom and the Law

Tags: Legal System

06/15/1961 • Bruno Leoni

Bruno Leoni was surely the most important Italian free market thinker of the second half of the 20th century. Here we have an outstanding analysis of the relationship between law and freedom, one that follows up on Bastiat and, many argue...

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Freedom in One Lesson: The Best of Leonard Read

Tags: Economic Freedom, Libertarianism

04/25/2025 • Gary Galles

Freedom in One Lesson is an extensive collection of Leonard Read's best, most powerful sustained arguments on behalf of liberty. Leonard Read's goal was to plant the seeds of liberty, so society and individuals could blossom to their fullest potential.

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Freedom Under Siege

Tags: Legal System, U.S. Economy, War and Foreign Policy

07/25/1987 • Ron Paul

Here is Ron Paul’s political manifesto, a courageous book on civil liberties and the rights of Americans that are relentlessly under assault from government. It was written in 1987, on the 200th anniversary of the Constitution, and is back in...

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Freedom, Society, and the State

Tags: Free Markets

05/06/1986 • David Osterfeld

From the author: Anarchist thought has traditionally been associated with socialism and has centered its attack not only on the state but on the market as well. Over the last two decades, however, there has emerged a notably new form of...

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From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate, Austrian Economics, Big Government, World History

11/18/2014 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

In this tour de force essay, Hans-Hermann Hoppe turns the standard account of historical governmental progress on its head. While the state is an evil in all its forms, monarchy is, in many ways, far less pernicious than democracy. Hoppe shows...

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From Bretton Woods to World Inflation: A Study of Causes and Consequences

Tags: Global Economy, Money and Banks

02/14/1984 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt was a leading editorialist for the New York Times from 1934 until 1946. His career at the paper, however, abruptly ended because of the articles collected in this book. He closely covered the Keynesian-inspired Bretton Woods...

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Fugitive Essays

Tags: Intermediate, Taxes and Spending, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

11/01/1980 • Frank Chodorov

If you were putting together a collection of writings by Frank Chodorov, what would you include? It’s an almost impossible task because he wrote so much and there is explosive insight in nearly every piece. The goal might be, as it is in this...

Full Reserve Banking versus the Real Bills Doctrine

Tags: Monetary Policy

07/03/2024 • Philipp Bagus

Responding to economist Juan Ramón Rallo's critique of Ludwig von Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit in Una crítica a la teoría monetaria de Mises, Bagus demonstrates that Mises's supposed errors are not errors at all.

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Geldwertstabilisierung und Konjunkturpolitik

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks

06/15/1928 • Ludwig von Mises

The 1928 German edition of Mises’s On the Manipulation of Money and Credit.

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Gertrude Coogan’s Bluff: Greenback Populism as Conservative Economics

09/24/2010 • Gary North

Gertrude Coogan is not a household name. She never was. But, because of recent political and economic events, her ideas are getting a hearing in conservative circles. This monograph is North’s attempt — in the phrase of B-Westerns in the late...

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Getting Libertarianism Right

09/28/2018 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Introduction by Sean Gabb The writings collected in this book are mostly addresses given in Bodrum to the Property and Freedom Society, of which Professor Hoppe is both Founder and President. I was fortunate to hear them read out to the...

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Give Me Liberty

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History, World History

06/07/1954 • Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane in her youth supported the Russian Revolution, but a trip to Russia quickly dispelled her illusions. She realized that the mass politics of socialism necessarily suppressed individual freedom. America was founded on a different...

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God of the Machine

Tags: Legal System, World History

11/06/1943 • Isabel Paterson

Paterson’s best known work is her 1943 book The God of the Machine, which at that time was the preeminent individualist manifesto. In Reason, Stephen Cox writes: The God of the Machine remains a classic of individualist thought. But it is not a...

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God’s Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1932 • John T. Flynn

In 1932, John T. Flynn had begun to rethink his old-style “progressivism” to develop intellectually into a defender of markets as against the regimentation of government management. A first product of these steps is this classic and...

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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

Tags: Biographies

09/01/2009 • Jennifer Burns

FROM THE PUBLISHER: Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and...

Gold and the Gold Standard

Tags: Global Economy

06/03/1944 • Edwin Walter Kemmerer

Edwin Walter Kemmerer is one of the unsung heroes of the 20th century. A professor of economics at Princeton, he was known as the “money doctor” between the wars, helping countries to establish and maintain strong currencies between 1923 and...

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