Books

Economic Theory of Costs: Foundations and New Directions

06/28/2018 • Matthew McCaffrey

The theory of costs is a cornerstone of economic thinking, and figures crucially in the study of human action and society. From the first day of a principles-level course to the most advanced academic literature, costs play a vital role in...

Economics and Its Opponents

Tags: Free Markets

06/19/2018 • Ludwig von Mises

Among the great books of mankind are the immortal writings by the Greek philosopher Plato. The Republic and The Laws, written 2300 to 2400 years ago, dealt not only with philosophy, the theory of knowledge, epistemology, but also with social...

Economics and Moral Courage

12/21/2022 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Lew Rockwell gave this talk, sponsored by the Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Economics Club, at George Mason University on September 9, 2009.

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Economics and the Public Welfare

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

05/04/1949 • Benjamin Anderson

Here is a contemporaneous account of the economic history of the first half of the 20th century, by an American adherent of the Austrian School. Covered in these pages is the inflation of World War I and following, the 1920s boom, and the onset...

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Economics for Real People

Tags: Education

01/01/2002 • Gene Callahan

The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn’t about government planning or...

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Economics in One Lesson

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Free Markets

12/29/2011 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt wrote this book following his stint at the New York Times as an editorialist. His hope was to reduce the whole teaching of economics to a few principles and explain them in ways that people would never forget. It worked. He relied...

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Economics in Service of the State: The Empiricism of Richard T. Ely

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

03/08/2018 • Murray N. Rothbard

[Excerpt from Murray Rothbard, The Progressive Era, Patrick Newman, ed. (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2017), from chap. 13 “World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals,” pp. 428–36.] World War I was the apotheosis of the growing...

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Economics of the Free Society

Tags: Free Markets

05/31/1963 • Wilhelm Röpke

One year before the Nazi takeover of Austria, and after Mises had already accepted a research position in Geneva, a remarkable book began to circulate in what remained of Vienna’s intellectual circles. It was Die Lehre von der Wirtschaft, The...

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Economy, Society, and History

Tags: Socialism, Strategy

07/22/2021 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

In June 2004, Professor Hoppe presented a 10-lecture series, a sweeping historical narrative and vision for a society rooted in markets and property. Economy, Society, and History is a blueprint for understanding the world, rethinking it, and creating a better one.

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Education and the State

Tags: Introductory, Education

06/01/1965 • E. G. West

Education and the State first appeared in 1965 and was immediately hailed as one of the century’s most important works on education. In the thirty years that have followed, the questions this book raised concerning state-run education have grown...

Education in America

Tags: Big Government, Education, Taxes and Spending, U.S. History

07/15/1969 • George Charles Roche III

From the author: Increasing numbers of Americans express concern over the deterioration of modem society, accurately pinpointing various failings-social, political, and economic. Most of us are far better at discovering shortcomings than...

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Education: Free and Compulsory

Tags: Education

01/03/1979 • Murray N. Rothbard

What is it about today’s school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level of...

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Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical

Tags: Education

11/07/1860 • Herbert Spencer

This book originally appeared as four review articles: the first in the Westminster Review, the second in the North British Review, and the remaining two in the British Quarterly Review. I. What is Knowledge Most Worth? II. Intellectual...

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Effects of the War on the Money, Banking, Credit System of the United States

Tags: Money and Banks

09/27/1919 • Benjamin Anderson

Students of money, banking, and finance will find this volume filled with solid information and marked by penetrating insight and illuminating interpretation. It is an interpretative and judicially critical record for both countries of the main...

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Efficiency and Externalities in an Open-Ended Universe

Tags: Free Markets

11/06/2007 • Roy Cordato

The problem of externalities and efficiency is cited relentlessly in mainstream literature as the great rationale for government intervention. The Austrian School, however, rooted in an understanding of the competitive process, takes another...

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Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays

Tags: Featured, Free Markets

01/01/1974 • Murray N. Rothbard

Egalitarianism as a Revolt against Nature, and Other Essays is vital reading for anyone interested in the thought of Murray Rothbard. The book is his comprehensive effort to present libertarianism as a “science of liberty.” In order to grasp...

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Elementary Lessons in Logic

03/09/2010 • W. Stanley Jevons

Henry Hazlitt strongly recommended this book for all students of the social sciences. It had a formative influence on his life. In fact, it is the book that taught him how to think. And not only Hazlitt. William Stanley Jevons’s book was the...

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Elements of Libertarian Leadership

Tags: Introductory, Education

05/15/1962 • Leonard E. Read

It is difficult to set forth the libertarian ideal, but expounding it is simple compared to living by it. Nonetheless, life lived according to right principles can never be more than sporadic except as the ideal is sought for, held up, and used...

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End the Fed

Tags: Introductory, The Fed, U.S. Economy

09/16/2009 • Ron Paul

A blast against central banking this powerful hasn’t been seen since the 19th century. The Fed itself has never been subjected to such a whithering critique. And it is from a man who has been fighting the Fed his entire political career. in fact...

Energy: The Master Resource

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Robert L. Bradley Jr. • Richard W. Fulmer

Robert Bradley, a leading free market energy economist, has in collaboration with Richard Fulmer put together an outstanding book that covers the huge subject of energy, beginning with answers to the most fundamental questions (What is energy...