Books

An Analysis on the Relationship between Hoarding, Investment and Economic Growth

01/10/2017 • Alexandru Pătruți

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 248–266 ABSTRACT: The relationship between investment, hoarding and economic growth is a rather complex one. Although both investment and monetary hoarding can be considered...

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An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

09/01/2010 • Murray N. Rothbard

This is one of Rothbard’s most important scholarly works. In the first volume ( Economic Thought Before Adam Smith ), Rothbard traces the history of economics from the ancient Greeks to Adam Smith; and in the second volume ( Classical Economics...

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An Austro-Libertarian View: Essays by David Gordon

01/10/2018 • David Gordon

Volume 1: Economics, Philosophy, Law Volume 2: Political Theory Volume 3: Current Affairs, Foreign Policy, American History, European History Review by Paul Gottfried David Gordon, from the Foreword: Shortly after Murray Rothbard’s lamented...

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An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain

Tags: Global Economy, World History

09/17/1965 • Henry Thornton

In this book, which was recovered after being lost for over 100 years, Henry Thornton defends the Bank of England’s influence on paper money.

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An Essay on Economic Theory

07/19/2010 • Richard Cantillon

Here is the first accurate translation of Richard Cantillon’s 1755 masterpiece on economics. This treatise is widely credited with being the first to describe the market process as one driven by entrepreneurship. William Stanley Jevons, in the...

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An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science

06/15/1932 • Lionel Robbins

An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science by Lionel Robbins first appeared in 1932 as an outstanding English-language statement of the Misesian view of economic method, namely that economics is a social science and must advance...

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An Inflation Primer

Tags: Money and Banks

03/06/1962 • Melchior Palyi

Inflation concerns every citizen-worker, banker, creditor, debtor, politician and union leader. It is the “legalized robbery” by which wealth is distributed, false prosperity is prolonged and nations are ruined. An Inflation Primer is written...

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An Introduction to Austrian Economics

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory

01/01/1980 • Thomas C. Taylor

For the serious student, this exposition of the essentials of Austrian economics is excellent. Taylor discusses all the fundamental aspects of Austrian thought, from subjectivism and marginal utility to inflation and the business cycle. For the...

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An Introduction to Economic Reasoning

07/20/2000 • David Gordon

This high-school text, published in May 2000, is aimed at teaching the intelligent young reader how to think about economic problems in a manner consistent with the Austrian School tradition. Its chapters on action, preference, demand and supply...

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An Introduction to the Theory of Value

11/15/1910 • William Smart

It is astonishing that a book of this quality would have been completely lost to history. It was the first to introduce the core ideas of the Menger branch of Marginalist thought to English readers. The first edition appeared in 1891. It...

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An Outline of International Price Theory

Tags: Global Economy, World History

03/15/1940 • Chi-Yuen Wu

Greatness often comes from the most unlikely corners. Chi-Yuen Wu began this treatise while a student at LSE during the Great Depression, then returning to an anxious China, on the verge of war, and in the throes of economic instability...

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An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

05/28/1836 • Nassau W. Senior

From the INtroduction: We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy. Our readers must be...

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Anarchy and the Law

Tags: Legal System

01/15/2007 • Edward Stringham

If you love the idea of free-market anarchism, hate it, or are just intrigued that so many are steeped in the rigor and logic of the prospects of a free society without the state, this is the collection that gives you all you need to find your...

Anatomy of the Crash

Tags: The Fed

04/29/2020 • Tho Bishop

Mises understood the degree to which our intellectual environment directly guides policy and institutional frameworks. In the aftermath of the challenging times that may be ahead, the only way to build a stronger, more prosperous, and more stable future will be with an ideological revolution.

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Anatomy of the State

Tags: Featured, Introductory, Mises U Required Readings

01/01/1974 • Murray N. Rothbard

Murray Rothbard was known as the state’s greatest living enemy, and this is his most succinct and powerful statement on the topic.

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Antitrust and Monopoly

Tags: Introductory, Legal System, U.S. History

02/01/1982 • Dominick Armentano

In this pioneering study, Professor Armentano thoroughly researches the classic cases in antitrust law and demonstrates an enormous gap between the stated aims of antitrust law and what it actually accomplishes in the real world. Instead of...

Antitrust: The Case for Repeal

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Free Markets

01/01/1986 • Dominick Armentano

This 100-page tour de force rips the intellectual cover off antitrust regulation to reveal it for what it is: a bludgeon used by businesses against their competitors. Unlike some critics, Professor Armentano carries the logic of his analysis to...

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Anything That’s Peaceful: The Case for the Free Market

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

09/15/1964 • Leonard E. Read

Leonard Read was a great spokesman for liberty, and an excellent teacher in the second half of the 20th century. Everyone agrees that this is his most inspired collection. It includes the essay later called “I, Pencil,” which is a masterful...

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As We Go Marching

Tags: Big Government, U.S. Economy

06/15/1944 • John T. Flynn

John T. Flynn’s classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. In some ways, this is the finest and most mature of all his works. It was written in wartime and his points were profoundly cutting. After all, the U.S...

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Aspects of the Pathology of Money

07/20/1968 • Michael A. Heilperin

Professor Heilperin was the outstanding monetary theorist before and after the Second World War who explained the inflation dangers associated with monetary nationalism, and called for a new international monetary system based on gold: not a...

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