Books

Business-Cycle Theory in the United States, 1860–1900

05/01/1941 • Paul Barnett

Preface Business-cycle theory in the United States before 1860 (and after 1900 has been carefully analyzed, but little is known of its development in the period from 1860 to 1900. This essay aims to fill in this gap by a detailed examination of...

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Busting Myths about the State and the Libertarian Alternative

Tags: Strategy

08/21/2017 • Zack Rofer

In non-technical terms, the libertarian is simply someone who is against the use of force against peaceful people in civil society. You would think that this would be a universally accepted idea, but to believe in government as we know it is to...

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Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy

01/01/2001 • Peter J. Boettke

This collection of essays brings together some of Boettke’s key writings on a variety of economic issues.

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Capital and Interest

07/20/1890 • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

The great economist and finance minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is a pillar of the Austrian School. As a champion of the new marginalist school, this great work brought him more fame than even Carl Menger had in his day. Here is the...

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Capital and Its Structure

07/20/1956 • Ludwig M. Lachmann

Ludwig Lachmann in 1956 set out to correct the problem that the economics profession had no coherent and working understanding of capital, a concept so integral to economic science and yet not explored at length since the takeover of...

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Capital and Production

Tags: Booms and Busts

10/29/1934 • Richard von Strigl

Richard Ritter von Strigl (1891–1942) was one of the most brilliant Austrian economists of the interwar period. As a professor at the University of Vienna he had a decisive influence on Hayek, Machlup, Haberler, Morgenstern, and other fourth...

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Capital in Disequilibrium

08/03/2011 • Peter Lewin

A theoretical treatise is a rare event, a moment to celebrate. This is what Peter Lewin has provided in his Capital in Disequilibrium. Taking capital seriously is a distinguishing mark of the Austrian School. The Austrians see capital as...

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Capital, Expectations, and the Market Process

Tags: Biographies, Free Markets

10/13/1977 • Ludwig M. Lachmann

This collection includes seventeen of Ludwig Lachmann’s most important papers published from 1940 to 1973. It includes and extended introduction by Walter Grinder.

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Capital, Interest, and Rent: Essays in the Theory of Distribution

06/15/1897 • Frank A. Fetter

Frank Fetter of Princeton University was one of the great American Austrians, and perhaps the most lucid defender of the “pure time preference” theory of interest in the history of economic ideas. Rothbard learned from him, and then collected...

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Capitalism

Tags: Intermediate, Free Markets

01/11/2016 • George Reisman

George Reisman was a student of Mises’s, a translator of his work, and, as he demonstrates in this outstanding treatise, a leading theorist in the Misesian tradition. This exposition deals with the method and theory of economics, and...

Capitalism and the Historians

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, World History

04/15/1963 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Even today, social scientists and historians continue to treat the Industrial Revolution as if it were the beginning of the end of civilization. What the essays in this book do is show the opposite. It was in many ways the beginning of a new...

Capitalism the Creator

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

02/26/1940 • Carl Snyder

There is one way, and only one way, that any people, in all history, have ever risen from barbarism and poverty to affluence and culture; and that is by that concentrated and highly organized system of production and exchange which we call...

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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Tags: The Entrepreneur

06/01/1942 • Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is packed with scintillating insight on all the topics that really matter: capitalism and its future, the absurdities of socialism, the dangers of democratic rule, the future of freedom, and the social...

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics

06/15/1996 • George Reisman

[ George Reisman’s Program of Self-Education in the Economic Theory and Political Philosophy of Capitalism is available here with permission of the author.] George Reisman was a student of Mises’s, a translator of his work, and, as he...

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Castles in the Air

Tags: Introductory

03/15/1975 • Leonard E. Read

In Castles in the Air, Leonard Read discusses the idealistic foundations of the United States and how those foundations are crumbling right before the eyes of the people. Read addresses topics such as social order, the tendency for individuals...

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Central Planning and Neomercantilism

06/15/1964 • Helmut Schoeck

From the author: Today as ever we can point to gaps and disturbances in our social, cultural, and economic environment which we all might wish were not there. There will never be a society so perfect, and with all its members on the same high...

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Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy

01/01/2002 • Robert P. Murphy

Among the most advanced topics in the literature in the Austro-libertarian milieu is that which deals with the workings of the fully free society, that is, the society with no state, or anarcho-capitalism. Robert Murphy deals with this head on...

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Choice in Currency

02/15/1976 • Friedrich A. Hayek

A path-breaking essay by Hayek, newly in print in cooperation with the Institute of Economic Affairs, this piece first appeared in 1976, during an inflationary bout in the U.S.. Hayek saw that it was crucial to bring the forces of competition to...

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Christian Economics, Scholar’s Edition

02/22/2020 • Gary North

Gary North’s magnum opus in two volumes. His work draws inspiration from Mises and Rothbard, but goes beyond them to lay the groundwork for a distinctively Christian approach to economics, cosmology, and epistemology.

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Christianity and War

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture, War and Foreign Policy

01/14/2008 • Laurence M. Vance

A main support group for Bush’s “war on terror” and war on Iraq and other nations were evangelical Christians. They cited a religious justification for attacking Islam and claim Biblical and moral support for their position. They were the...