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How to Think About the Economy: A Primer

How to Think about the Economy: A Primer

Per Bylund

This little book was written to accomplish something big: economic literacy. It is intentionally kept very short to be inviting rather than intimidating. If I managed to meet this bar, you, the reader, will gain life-changing understanding of how the economy works in practically no time.

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Human Action by Ludwig von Mises

Human Action

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Ludwig von Mises
The masterpiece first appeared in German in 1940 and then disappeared, only to reappear in English in 1949. It was a sensation, the largest and most scientific defense of human freedom ever published. As is well known, Mises’s book is the best...
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Illusions of Point Four by Henry Hazlitt

Illusions of Point Four

Henry Hazlitt
In his inaugural address of 20 January 1949, President Truman announced what has since become the famous “Point Four”. No sooner was this announced than the brains of Washington bureaucrats began to bubble with grandiose schemes for pouring...
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Imperialism and Social Classes by Joseph Shumpeter

Imperialism and Social Classes

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Joseph Schumpeter
Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empires and applies his insight to explaining...
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In Defense of Advertising by Jerry Kirkpatrick

In Defense of Advertising

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Jerry Kirkpatrick
In Defense of Advertising is a theoretical defense based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand and the economics of Ludwig von Mises. It argues that the proper foundations of advertising are reason, ethical egoism, and laissez-faire capitalism. Its...
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Individual Liberty by Benjamin R. Tucker

Individual Liberty

Benjamin R. Tucker
This essay, which is the clearest statement on the subject that has ever been produced, was written by Mr. Tucker in 1886, in response to an invitation from the editor of the North American Review to furnish him a paper on Anarchism. It was...
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Individualism and Economic Order by F. A. Hayek

Individualism and Economic Order

Friedrich A. Hayek
If you are looking to acquaint yourself with F.A. Hayek’s perspective on economic theory — beyond his business cycle and monetary studies of the inter-war years — this is the best source. The collection appeared in 1947, before he moved on...
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Inequality and Progress by George Harris

Inequality and Progress

George Harris
From the author: I believe that a service may be rendered by going back of various theories to certain fundamental facts of human nature and human development, and thus learning what may and what may not be taken for granted. Before social and...
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Instead of Dictatorship by Henry Hazlitt

Instead of Dictatorship

Henry Hazlitt
All over the world democracy as we have come to know it seems to be either in desuetude or in disrepute. Even in the United States, while all the outward forms of democracy have been retained, Congress since the beginning of the Roosevelt...
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Instead of Violence by Leonard Read

Instead of Violence

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Leonard E. Read
Written in 1951, this is one of Leonard Read’s earliest pamphlets on what he called “the philosophy of freedom.” As was often the case in Read’s essays on spreading the message of liberty, he notes that the first step is evaluating one’s own...
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Interest and Prices by Knut Wicksell

Interest and Prices

Knut Wicksell
It was this work by Swedish economist Wicksell that drew Mises’s attention to the effects of interest rate manipulation on the capital structure. This was the first to present the idea of the natural rate of interest, which Wicksell argued can...
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