Books

Great French Writers: Turgot

Tags: Biographies

04/30/1888 • Leon Say

For an those who have related to us his life, who have collected with a pious care his most trifling sayings, his slightest writings, Turgot is a great mind, one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century, the greatest, perhaps, next to...

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Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal

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

12/08/2010 • Ralph Raico

The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in sheep’s clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights. In the...

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Hamilton’s Curse

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, U.S. History

11/21/2008 • Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Court historians have long praised the glories of Alexander Hamilton as the greatest of the founding fathers. This view is back in vogue as U.S. economic policy becomes ever more statist. In this work, Professor Thomas DiLorenzo provides the...

Harangue

Tags: Media and Culture

06/15/1927 • Garet Garrett

Garet Garrett wrote one last, and truly spectacular, novel called Harangue (The Trees Said to the Bramble Come Reign Over Us). The words are from the Bible (Judges 9:15, and the metaphor here refers to the strange penchant of the rich to fund...

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Having My Way

Tags: Introductory

04/11/1974 • Leonard E. Read

Who are we as individuals? How does a possible Creator or Source fit into the subject of human liberty? Leonard E. Read delves into these topics that have been pondered about throughout the centuries. Together with quotes from timeless authors...

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Hayek for the 21st Century: Essays in Political Economy

Tags: Libertarianism, Socialism, Strategy

08/14/2025 • Friedrich A. Hayek

A collection of essays by F. A. Hayek, whom Ludwig von Mises described as “one of the great economists” of all time. This book serves as a primer, introducing a new generation to Hayek’s writings. All seven chapters are directly applicable to understanding today’s economic and political worlds.

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Henry Hazlitt: A Giant of Liberty

Tags: Introductory, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Henry Hazlitt

This bibliography contains more than 6,000 entries, with books annotated by Murray N. Rothbard, in a near-complete listing of articles by this Austrian journalist. It identifies for the first time unsigned editorials in the New York Times (1934...

Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics

Tags: Biographies

06/15/1969 • Ludwig von Mises

This essay offers something spectacular: an intellectual history of Mises’s own tradition, with first person accounts of conversations with the greats. And truly, Mises turns out to have written the best single account of the origin and early...

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History of American Socialisms

08/04/1961 • John Humphrey Noyes

From the author: The object of this book is to help the study of Socialism by the inductive method. It is, first and chiefly, a collection of facts; and the attempts at interpretation and generalization which are interspersed, are secondary and...

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History of Crises Under the National Banking System

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks, U.S. History

10/13/1968 • O.M.W. Sprague

This detailed description of the series of financial crises which occurred from the establishment of the National Banking System up to its replacement by the Federal Reserve System includes an analysis of the causes of financial market failures...

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History of Monetary and Credit Theory

Tags: World History

10/13/1966 • Charles Rist

From the author: This is not a work of erudition. I have tried to give the history, not of books or of men, but of ideas. At all times the problems of credit and of money have excited controversies in which there have been apparent, from the...

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History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

Tags: Money and Banks, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

01/01/2002 • Murray N. Rothbard

The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose credit, reckless...

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Honest Money

Tags: Money and Banks

03/06/2011 • Gary North

Lots of people are harassed routinely by ministers and other believers who imagine that the Bible favors inflationary schemes, bans the paying and receiving of interest, and requires a government monopoly on money to fund glorious government...

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How Can Europe Survive

Tags: Global Economy

01/01/1955 • Hans F. Sennholz

Like a coin on whose two sides two different symbols are impressed, government planning and the disintegration of the world market are two aspects of a single problem. The upper side of the coin, visible and familiar to everybody, shows the...

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How Capitalism Saved America

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

01/11/2016 • Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Thomas DiLorenzo has a marvelous analytical talent and a knack for drawing the reader’s attention to the material that matters. His new book employs this talent in defense of the whole history of free enterprise in America. How long have we...

How Diplomats Make War

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

11/15/1915 • Francis Neilson

Francis Neilson (1867–1961) was a member of the British Parliament, one of the last truly educated British aristocrats, a colleague and friend of Albert Jay Nock’s, and an amazing historian and stylist. He is also the author of this historic...

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How Do We Know

Tags: Introductory, Education, Free Markets

10/11/1981 • Leonard E. Read

The master educator of liberty reflects on learning, and other forms of self-improvement. In the title essay, Leonard Read writes, “Everyone who pursues an improved understanding of how freedom works its wonders makes a contribution to a higher...

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How Inflation Destroys Civilization

Tags: Inflation

05/01/2024 • Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Fiat inflation leaves a characteristic cultural and spiritual stain on human society. Guido Hülsmann takes a closer look at some aspects of this legacy.

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How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men and Women Told by Themselves

Tags: Biographies

03/23/1901 • Orison Swett Marden

The Gilded Age produced not only some of the richest men and women of all time; its freedom and opportunities built a nation of people of superlative character. This fantastic book from 1901 provides an in-depth look at the lives and choices of...

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How to Keep Our Liberty

02/27/1952 • Raymond Moley

From the author: The people of this nation are today presented with a choice between two forms of political and economic life. One form is that of our traditions, in which individual liberty prevails and is guarded by “the long, still grasp of...

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