How Inflation Destroys Civilization
Fiat inflation leaves a characteristic cultural and spiritual stain on human society. Guido Hülsmann takes a closer look at some aspects of this legacy.
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How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men and Women Told by Themselves
The Gilded Age produced not only some of the richest men and women of all time; its freedom and opportunities built a nation of people of superlative character. This fantastic book from 1901 provides an in-depth look at the lives and choices of...
How to Keep Our Liberty
From the author: The people of this nation are today presented with a choice between two forms of political and economic life. One form is that of our traditions, in which individual liberty prevails and is guarded by “the long, still grasp of...
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How to Think about the Economy: A Primer
This little book was written to accomplish something big: economic literacy. It is intentionally kept very short to be inviting rather than intimidating. If I managed to meet this bar, you, the reader, will gain life-changing understanding of how the economy works in practically no time.
Human Action
Human Action is Ludwig von Mises's full economic system, interconnected into a comprehensive system of the whole body of social and economic relations.
I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians
Walter Block leaned on 82 of the world’s most prominent libertarian thinkers and asked them to tell their life stories with an eye to intellectual development. The result is the most comprehensive collection of libertarian autobiographies ever...
Ideas on Liberty: Essays in Honor of Paul L. Poirot
Paul Poirot is remembered by most people as the thirty-year editor of The Freeman, the monthly journal published by the Foundation for Economic Education since 1956. But Paul Poirot was much more than just an editor. Dr. Poirot was an...
Illusions of Point Four
In his inaugural address of 20 January 1949, President Truman announced what has since become the famous “Point Four”. No sooner was this announced than the brains of Washington bureaucrats began to bubble with grandiose schemes for pouring...
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Imperialism and Social Classes
Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empires and applies his insight to explaining...
In Defense of Advertising
In Defense of Advertising is a theoretical defense based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand and the economics of Ludwig von Mises. It argues that the proper foundations of advertising are reason, ethical egoism, and laissez-faire capitalism. Its...
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In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918-1938
This extremely important study by Butler Shaffer—professor of law and economist—will change the way you think of the relationship between the state and business. It makes a deep inquiry into the attitudes of business leaders toward competition...
Inclined To Liberty: The Futile Attempt to Suppress the Human Spirit
“No one should be allowed to own a yacht.” “The salaries of company executives are too high” “No one should be allowed to inherit wealth.” We are surrounded every day by anti-capitalist clichés. We encounter them in casual conversation...
Income Tax: The Root of All Evil
Frank Chodorov was an extraordinary thinker and writer, and hugely influential in the 1950s. He wrote what became an American classic arguing that the income tax, more than any other legislative change in American history, made it possible to...
Individual Liberty
This essay, which is the clearest statement on the subject that has ever been produced, was written by Mr. Tucker in 1886, in response to an invitation from the editor of the North American Review to furnish him a paper on Anarchism. It was...
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Individualism and Economic Order
If you are looking to acquaint yourself with F.A. Hayek’s perspective on economic theory — beyond his business cycle and monetary studies of the inter-war years — this is the best source. The collection appeared in 1947, before he moved on...
Inequality and Progress
From the author: I believe that a service may be rendered by going back of various theories to certain fundamental facts of human nature and human development, and thus learning what may and what may not be taken for granted. Before social and...
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Inflation: Its Causes and Cures
The objective of the present study is to give a rounded picture and to emphasize fundamental issues which seem in danger of being obscured by the great mass that has been and is being written on inflation.
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Insatiable Government
The title essay alone reveals the importance of this book. It was written in 1932 as a thrashing assault on the Hoover administration for its big spending, tax regulating, and inflating program that the author said would make the depression...
Instead of Dictatorship
All over the world democracy as we have come to know it seems to be either in desuetude or in disrepute. Even in the United States, while all the outward forms of democracy have been retained, Congress since the beginning of the Roosevelt...
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Instead of Violence
Written in 1951, this is one of Leonard Read’s earliest pamphlets on what he called “the philosophy of freedom.” As was often the case in Read’s essays on spreading the message of liberty, he notes that the first step is evaluating one’s own...
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