Books

Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War

Tags: U.S. Economy, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/29/1947 • George Morgenstern

George Morgenstern’s Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War has to be one of the bravest books ever written. It’s a wonder it came out at all, but it did, in 1947, just as the war ended and FDR had died. It argues that the bombing was not...

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People's Pottage

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate

06/15/1953 • Garet Garrett

A time came when the only people who had ever been free began to ask: "What is freedom?" Who wrote its articles — the strong or the weak? Was it an absolute good? Could there be such a thing as unconditional freedom, short of anarchy? Given the...

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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

07/17/1953 • Harry Elmer Barnes

This book is a critical survey and appraisal of the development of American foreign policy during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and of its results, as they have affected the course of world history, the national interest of the United...

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Pictures of the Socialistic Future

Tags: Media and Culture

11/21/1893 • Eugen Richter

Written in 1893, it is a novel of life under socialism by Eugene Richter, a German liberal of the 19th century. Prophetic is not quite the word for this book. Richter saw with chilling clarity what would happen under socialistic control. The...

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Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets, Money and Banks

03/01/2008 • Ron Paul

When the economic history of our times is written, one man will emerge as the prophet of both the financial collapse and the disasters associated with government management: Ron Paul. He alone among the political class sounded the warnings and...

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Planned Chaos

Tags: Introductory

04/01/1961 • Ludwig von Mises

This new edition of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date — not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will. The title comes from Mises's...

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Planning for Freedom; and Twelve other Essays and Addresses

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

05/15/1962 • Ludwig von Mises

An enduring collection of Mises's essays, some popular and others scholarly, but always engaging and provocative. The first edition came out in 1952, and headlined the essay "Planning for Freedom," which makes the point that the choice isn't...

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Politically Impossible?

Tags: Free Markets

10/12/2010 • William H. Hutt

Should economists curb their rhetoric and prescriptions based on “political realities”? Should anyone attempt to conceal the truth about state intervention for fear of not fitting into the existing political culture? Many people answer yes to...

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Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, U.S. History

03/31/2009 • Robert P. Murphy

Robert Murphy puts together in one easy package the research of hundreds of scholars, showing that it was not capitalism that failed in 1929 but the boom times created by Fed credit expansion. Murphy takes aim at the Chicago School economists...

Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Tags: Featured

07/20/1970 • Murray N. Rothbard

What can government do to enhance social and economic well being? Nothing, says Murray N. Rothbard. Power and Market contains the proof. It will inoculate the reader against even the slightest temptation to invoke the state as a solution to any...

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Power and Privilege: Labor Unions in America

Tags: Legal System

10/21/1984 • Morgan O. Reynolds

This book reconsiders the economic role of labor unions by challenging fundamental assumptions. Anyone who seeks a comprehensive treatment of the effects of labor unions, as well as the legal and economic reasons for those effects, would do well...

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Power Unlimited: The Corruption of Union Leadership

11/22/1959 • Sylvester Petro

A report on the May 1957 "McClellan Committee Hearings": the hearing of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Improper Activities in Labor-Management Relations. “The author has chosen well the individual cases which illustrate the methods...

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Praxeology and Understanding: An Analysis of the Controversy in Austrian Economics

Tags: Mises U Required Readings

07/28/1990 • George A. Selgin

George Selgin argues that what Mises called praxeology is ultimately rooted in a conception of economic logic that is undeniable and not subject to the claims of those who would extend the idea of "subjectivism" beyond its appropriate bounds...

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Prices and Production and Other Works

Tags: Booms and Busts

09/15/1931 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Hayek was not only a leading champion of liberty in the 20th century. As this massive book reveals, he was also a great economist whose elaboration on monetary theory and the business cycle made him the leading foe of Keynesian theory and policy...

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Principles of Economics

07/20/1871 • Carl Menger

It was this book that kicked-off the Marginalist Revolution, which corrected theoretical errors of the old classical school. These errors concerned value theory, and they had sown enough confusion to make the dangerous ideology of Marxism seem...

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Principles of Economics: Study Guide

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Education

02/08/2008 • Jeremie T.A. Rostan

This study guide is intended to both newcomers and advanced readers. To the first, its summaries and comments following the divisions of Principles of Economics will serve as a digest and an explanation; to the latter, they will serve as an aid...

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Principles of Ethics: Anthology

08/29/1898 • Herbert Spencer

This two-volume treatise by the classic liberal political theorist and philosopher Herbert Spencer has been considered by many to be his most influential work. The full compilation of its parts lasted almost a half century from the early 1840s...

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Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments

Tags: Intermediate

06/01/1980 • Benjamin Constant

Principles of Politics was first published in 1815. It is by one of the great political thinkers of all time, a pioneer of classical liberalism. Thanks to the work of historian Ralph Raico, he is being discovered anew today. This translation of...

Private Property, Public Purpose

04/25/2019 • Henry Hazlitt

[ Chapter 19 of The Conquest of Poverty (1996)] The socialists and communists propose to cure poverty by seizing private property, particularly property in the means of production, and turning it over to be operated by the government. What the...

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Probleme der Wertlehre

07/20/1931 • Ludwig von Mises

Mises discusses the origins of the subjective theory of value. As developed by Menger, value theory was in a position to solve problems that the British classical economists could not answer.

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