Books

Civilian and the Military

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.

Do you have doubts about American wars abroad? Do you worry about their cost, the drain in American resources, the resentments they foster abroad, the death and destruction they bring on all sides? Do you have a sense that these are not truly...

Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School

Tags: Intermediate, Featured, World History

02/15/2012 • Ralph Raico

Here is the book to learn classical liberalism from the ground up, written by the foremost historian in the Austrian tradition — Ralph Raico. Every student, scholar, and freedom fan must have a copy of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian...

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Cogitations from Albert Jay Nock

05/26/1985 • Albert Jay Nock

This collection was selected and arranged by Robert M. Thornton, who writes of it: We are not out to save the world. Neither is our aim to idolize a man or endorse every idea embraced by AJN. Nock had a way of setting ideas in motion and then...

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Collected Works of Carl Menger (in German): Four Volumes

08/24/1934 • Carl Menger

These four volumes have been selected not only for their outstanding importance in the history of economic thought, but also because of their previous inaccessibility to the majority of students in the field of economics.

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Collectivism: A False Utopia

04/15/1937 • William Henry Chamberlin

The book attempts to set forth a reasoned case for the proposition that collectivism, both in its communist and in its fascist forms, is a false Utopia, on the basis of the demonstrable facts of the Soviet, Germany, and Italian experiments...

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Collectivist Economic Planning

Tags: Big Government

07/28/1935 • Friedrich A. Hayek

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises dropped a bombshell on the European economic world with his article called “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” It argued that socialism was impossible as an economic system. It set off two decades of...

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Comes The Dawn

Tags: Introductory

01/11/1976 • Leonard E. Read

Libertarians may seem few and far between today, but they are not nearly as isolated now as they were when Leonard Read (1898–1983) was working to spread the freedom philosophy. Yet, although Read saw socialism spreading all around, he knew it...

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Commerce and Government Considered in Their Mutual Relationship

Tags: Intermediate

06/01/1776 • Étienne Bonnot Abbé de Condillac

This work is only recently translated into English but it shows that he should be held in high esteem, precisely as Rothbard wrote in his History of Economic Thought. Condillac’s Commerce and Government is one of the milestones in the history of...

Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism before Adam Smith

Tags: Introductory, World History

01/11/2016 • Henry C. Clark

This volume has collected the best of the best of early economic thought, and thereby has rooted economics in the broadest range of history dating back centuries before the Industrial Revolution. Represented here are: William Walwyn, Pieter de...

Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Ryan McMaken

The Western genre has long been associated with right-wing and libertarian politics, and is said to promote individualism and free-market economics. In a new look at the Western, however, Ryan McMaken shows that the Western is in fact often anti...

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Common Sense Economics

01/28/1956 • L. Albert Hahn

Professor Hahn, one of the greatest but least known Austrian economists of his generation, offers a fantastic refutation of Keynesian macroeconomics, including its wild obsession with effective demand, and also a systematic presentation of the...

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Competition and Entrepreneurship

Tags: Introductory

01/11/2016 • Israel M. Kirzner

Written the year of Mises’s death, this is the book that brought new prominence to the Austrian theory of the entrepreneur. Kirzner views him as the discoverer of opportunities in the competitive process, and contrasts this view with the general...

Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State

Tags: Big Government, Health

04/28/1950 • Melchior Palyi

The doctrine of the Welfare State is being offered in the United States as a bright and shiny new.invention. It is being accepted by some on the assumption that it is a device with inherent capacity to solve the complicated problems of mankind,-...

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Conceived in Liberty

Tags: Homeschool Resource, U.S. History

06/15/1979 • Murray N. Rothbard

Click here for Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791 There’s never been a better time to remember the revolutionary and even libertarian roots of the American founding, and there’s no better guide to what this means in the...

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Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791

10/24/2019 • Murray N. Rothbard

The fifth volume of Conceived in Liberty highlights the most important battle of the American project — one that continues to this day — the conflict between those who want to centralize power, and those who choose to stand to defend the American heritage of liberty.

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Confessions of a Capitalist

06/05/1925 • Sir Ernest Benn

From the author: Three things may be said about this book upon which there must, I think, be general agreement, and I mention them to save my critics trouble. The first is that the book is in bad taste, dealing as it does with matters which, by...

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Control or Economic Law

Tags: Free Markets, Legal System

02/18/2010 • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk was a giant of the Austrian School. Finally, here is an approachable book by him. His masterworks on interest and capital run up to 1000-plus pages. Everyone should read them, as Mises said, but of course it is a bit much...

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Country Squire in the White House

Tags: Biographies, U.S. History

06/15/1940 • John T. Flynn

John T. Flynn was an early New Dealer who quickly saw what happens when power is concentrated in the executive state. He became a passionate opponent of FDR and his policies. This 1940 book is his analysis of the American presidency and the...

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Creating Order without the State

Tags: Free Markets

11/10/2017 • Jason Morgan

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 297–301 [ Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life by Edward P. Stringham] Leave people alone, and they will figure things out. This simple thesis, the heart of...

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Credit Policies of the Federal Reserve System

Tags: The Fed

08/17/1932 • Charles Hardy

In this historical book originally published in 1932, Charles Hardy examines the history of the Federal Reserve’s policies and their impact on the organization of the banking system in the post-World War I period. Mr. Hardy deals with the...

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