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Karl Marx and the Close of His System

01/01/1898 Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

The great economist takes on Karl Marx, and his fundamental failure to understand the workings of the capital market and its relationship to value. The criticism was devastating, so much so that a leading Marxist responded, and thus herein is...

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Keynes the Man

Tags: Biographies

03/06/2010 Murray N. Rothbard

Here is Rothbard’s mini-biography of Lord Keynes, one that makes use of all modern research to reconstruct Keynes’s life and works in a way that is absolutely devastating. We read about his schooling, his secret societies, his political...

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Knowledge in the Service of a Political Agenda is Biased

Tags: Book Reviews, Socialism, World History

02/15/2022 David Gordon

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity By David Graeber and David Wengrow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021 Xii + 692 pages The Dawn of Everything, which has already attracted much scholarly attention and is a best seller as well...

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Labor Economics From a Free Market Perspective

Tags: Intermediate

03/28/2008 Walter Block

Walter Block, in this large collection of his writings on the topic, avoids no controversial issue in the course of a consistent application of Austrian labor theory. He begins with the determination of wages in a market economy and defends the...

Labor Monopolies or Freedom

06/15/1972 John Scoville

From the author: This book has been written to present the basic facts and principles in regard to labor unions and collective bargaining. I believe that most of the thinking about labor unions is based on emotionalism rather than reason. Many...

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Lectures on Modern History

Tags: World History

07/22/1921 Lord Acton

It was announced in February 1895 that John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton, had been appointed to the Chair of Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in succession to the late Sir John Seeley, who had held the office...

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Lectures on Political Economy by Knut Wicksell

Lectures on Political Economy, 2 volumes

01/01/1934 Knut Wicksell

Knut Wicksell was a Swedish economist who had an enormous influence on Austrian economics and Ludwig von Mises. This might be his most compelling book: lectures delivered over the course of an entire career, covering both general and specific...

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Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

08/06/2014 Murray N. Rothbard

The Conservative has long been marked, whether he knows it or not, by long-run pessimism: by the belief that the long-run trend, and therefore Time itself, is against him, and hence the inevitable trend runs toward left-wing statism at home and...

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Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse

Tags: World History

07/15/1974 Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn gives us in Leftism a remarkable defense of classical liberal and libertarian thought, based on his enormous learning in the twenty languages he could read. Kuehnelt-Leddihn, an Austrian aristocrat, became in his long...

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Les Illusions du Protectionnisme et de l`Autarcie

01/01/1938 Ludwig von Mises

The French version of Mises’s The Disintegration of the International Division of Labour.

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Less than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy

03/16/1997 George A. Selgin

In several countries, allowing for some positive bias in popular inflation measures, zero inflation itself is now close to being the status quo. That is a great accomplishment in its own right. But its full benefits will not be grasped unless we...

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Lessons for the Young Economist

Tags: Featured, Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Education

03/10/2011 Robert P. Murphy

Lessons for the Young Economist prepares the student for both conventional economic studies in the future and provides the logical rigor and policy clarity that only the Austrian School perspective can offer.

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Lessons for the Young Economist Teacher’s Manual

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Education

02/29/2012 Robert P. Murphy

This is the teacher’s manual to accompany the student textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist. The manual follows the student text very closely (the student text is needed separately, either in physical form or PDF). For each section within a...

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Let Freedom Reign

Tags: Education

10/11/1969 Leonard E. Read

Leonard E. Read discusses the importance of freedom as a foundation for finding the answers to the problems induced by central planning and “master minding”. He suggests: “Freedom has come by accident, the result of desperation rather than a...

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Let’s Abolish Government

02/26/1972 Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) is the American individualist anarchist and legal theorist known mainly for setting up a commercial post office in competition with the government and thereby being shut down. But he was also the author of some of...

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Letters to Mr. Malthus

04/22/1821 Jean-Baptiste Say

J.B. Say battled the prophet of doom in this rare series of letters that explain how economic growth occurs without destabilizing economic forces. He writes with passion and personality, anticipating so many Austrian insights. An extra treat in...

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Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition

05/21/1927 Ludwig von Mises

This is Mises’s classic statement in defense of a free society, one of the last statements of the old liberal school and a text from which we can continue to learn. It has been the conscience of a global movement for liberty for 80 years. This...

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Liberalismus

Tags: Free Markets

05/21/1927 Ludwig von Mises

The German edition of Mises’s classic Liberalism. The program of liberalism... if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production... All the other demands of liberalism result...

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Libertad o Socialismo by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Libertad O Socialismo (Liberty or Socialism)

03/06/2009 Hans-Hermann Hoppe

A student and colleague of Murray N. Rothbard, Hoppe combines the Austrian School of economics, Aristotelian-Thomistic natural law, and a foreign policy of non-intervention into a systematic defense of human freedom.

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