Books

Essentials of Economics

Tags: Free Markets

02/21/1956 • Faustino Ballvé

Faustino Ballvé was a remarkable thinker and economist, educated in Spain and England and teaching and practicing law in Mexico City. He was there when Ludwig von Mises came to speak on a lecture tour. The talks that Ballvé heard sparked a new...

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Ex America: The 50th Anniversary of the People’s Pottage

Tags: Introductory, Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

07/01/2004 • Garet Garrett

This book is the darkest of Garrett’s works, but he tells the full truth about the disaster of the New Deal. It contains three eloquent and long essays: “The Revolution Was,” which explains how the revolution came to the U.S. “within the form”;...

Exchange, Prices, and Production in Hyper-Inflation: Germany 1920-1923

Tags: Money and Banks

08/19/1930 • Frank D. Graham

This large-scale study of the German hyper-inflation is definitive in the English language. Written by a professor at Princeton University, and published in 1930, Frank Graham’s treatment was so accurate and incisive that Ludwig von Mises...

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Fabianism in the Political Life of Britain - 1919-1931

Tags: World History

07/17/1954 • Margaret McCarran

From the author: “The Fabian Society consists of Socialists,” as the first line of the Basis on the flyleaf of many a Fabian Tract declares. A Society which bears the heritage of Benthamite radicalism, it rose with strange genius in the 1880’s...

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Failure of the “New Economics”

09/03/1959 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the...

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Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics

Tags: Intermediate

01/11/2016 • Alejandro A. Chafuen

In this second edition of his seminal study, Alejandro Chafuen covers the economic writings of the Late Scholastics working in the tradition of St.Thomas Aquinas, those whom J. Schumpeter called the first economists. Writing long before Adam...

Fascism versus Capitalism

Tags: Big Government

11/26/2013 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Fascism vs. Capitalism: The Central Ideological Conflict of Our Times “Fascism” has become a term of general derision and rebuke. It is tossed casually in the direction of anything a critic happens to dislike. But fascism is a real political and...

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Fiat Money Inflation in France

Tags: Money and Banks, World History

06/15/1933 • Andrew Dickson White

In Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White presents the still-largely-unknown story of a major factor behind the French Revolution. As John Mackay writes in the foreword, It records the most gigantic attempt ever made in the history...

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For a New Liberty: Discussion Questions

Tags: Law, Libertarianism, Politics, Strategy

04/17/2024 • Jonathan Newman

This guide is based on Jonathan Newman’s fall 2023 Mises Book Club discussions of Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto.

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For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Tags: Featured, Introductory, Legal System

07/20/1973 • Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, their ideologies, and their central plans for state power against people. Libertarianism is Rothbard's radical alternative that says state power is unworkable and immoral and ought to be curbed and finally abolished.

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Foreign Policy and the American Mind

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

03/16/1978 • Robert A. Nisbet

It is only too clear that behind the tactical and strategical problems of our relations with the rest of the world-not to emphasize the occasional humiliations-lie some major difficulties of perspective. They are most plainly political...

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Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn

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

10/05/1995 • John T. Flynn • Gregory P. Pavlik, ed.

This collection of essays and articles provides a small sampling of Flynn’s work, as well as a look at some of the great themes that animated the Old Right. The articles and essays in this volume were chosen to highlight Flynn’s advocacy of...

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Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn

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

10/05/1995 • John T. Flynn • Gregory P. Pavlik, ed.

This collection of essays and articles provides a small sampling of Flynn’s work, as well as a look at some of the great themes that animated the Old Right. The articles and essays in this volume were chosen to highlight Flynn’s advocacy of...

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Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation

Tags: Big Government, World History

02/14/1978 • Robert L. Scheuttinger • Eamonn F. Butler

By special arrangement with the authors, the Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting...

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Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation

Tags: Big Government, World History

02/14/1978 • Robert L. Scheuttinger • Eamonn F. Butler

By special arrangement with the authors, the Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting...

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Foundations of the Market Price System

02/06/1985 • Milton M. Shapiro

Murray Rothbard just loved this Austrian text on microeconomic theory. In fact, he thought it was the best text available — except that it has only been sporadically available since it was first published in 1974. It is characterized by a strong...

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Frédéric Bastiat: A Man Alone

Tags: Biographies

10/20/1971 • George Charles Roche III

Bastiat struggled his entire life to teach economic truths to every living person. His legacy is monumental and speaks to us today as clearly as it did France in the 19th century. He would certainly be thrilled by this biography of his life by...

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Free Banking: Theory, History, and a Laissez-Faire Model

Tags: Money and Banks, U.S. History

07/29/1993 • Larry J. Sechrest

Free Banking: Theory, History and a Laissez-Faire Model is a magnificent work, now rescued from undeserved obscurity with this new edition. Published in 1993, it is a formalization and extension of literature in the free banking area, with...

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Free Market Economics: A Syllabus

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Free Markets

01/01/1975 • Bettina Bien Greaves

This is a complete economics education for high-school age students. It provides lessons, study questions, activities, and an excellent list of readings for each topic under consideration. Bettina chose well because the readings all hold up...

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Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Free Markets

04/10/1975 • Bettina Bien Greaves

Bettina Bien Greaves put this volume together as a one-stop primer in economics that includes the best economic writing she had run across. They are arranged by topic to cover the division of labor, prices, profits, property, competition, saving...

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