Books

Modern Economic Problems

01/01/1917 • Frank A. Fetter

The present volume deals with various specific problems in economics. Writes Fetter: Truth, when at last found, is simpler than error, but often it is to be attained only by the hard road of analytic and abstract thought that follows through to...

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Monetary Nationalism and International Stability

Tags: Global Economy, Money and Banks

01/01/1937 • Friedrich A. Hayek

In five lectures delivered in 1937, Kayek “extended Mises’ monetary theory to provide a groundbreaking analysis of the international operation of the pure gold standard… the first comprehensive case against so-called freely fluctuating exchange...

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Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle

Tags: Booms and Busts

01/01/1929 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Published originally in 1929, Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle is the first essay Friedrich A. Hayek wrote. It serves as a primer into Hayek’s monetary and capital theories. In it, he takes the time to dismember opposing monetary theories of...

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Money and Freedom

Tags: Intermediate, Legal System, Money and Banks

06/01/1985 • Hans F. Sennholz

Hans Sennholz was a great champion of the Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and also the Misesian view of money. He was a proponent of the gold standard, and this is his aggressive defense of Austrian theory against monetarism and supply...

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Money and Man

Tags: Money and Banks

04/21/1934 • Elgin Groseclose

Elgin Groseclose presents this history of people’s experiences with money through the centuries. I would propose no greater service to the profession and to the country than that monetary economists begin a revision of their concepts of money...

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Money and the Mechanism of Exchange

Tags: Money and Banks

11/08/1896 • W. Stanley Jevons

In preparing this volume, I have attempted to write a descriptive essay on the past and present monetary systems of the world, the materials employed to make money, the regulations under which the coins are struck and issued, the natural laws...

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Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles

Tags: Booms and Busts, Money and Banks

03/16/2006 • Jesús Huerta de Soto

New Fourth Edition is now Available This book is a masterpiece that utterly demolishes the case for fiat currency and central banking, and shows that these institutions have compromised economic stability and freedom, and, moreover, are...

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Money, Method, and the Market Process

Tags: Free Markets

07/31/1990 • Ludwig von Mises • Richard M. Ebeling

This volume might be called the Mises Reader , for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like “Observations on the Cooperative Movement,” have not been published previously...

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Money, Method, and the Market Process

Tags: Free Markets

07/31/1990 • Ludwig von Mises • Richard M. Ebeling

This volume might be called the Mises Reader , for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like “Observations on the Cooperative Movement,” have not been published previously...

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Money: Its Connection with Rising and Falling Prices

Tags: Money and Banks

07/01/1932 • Edwin Cannan

To endeavor to acquire some clear notion of what makes the value of money change has become the duty of all who think themselves capable of expressing useful opinions on economic affairs. The following pages embody an attempt to assist in this...

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Money: Sound and Unsound

Tags: Money and Banks

10/07/2010 • Joseph T. Salerno

Ludwig von Mises said that there can never be too much of a good theory. Salerno proves it in this sweeping and nearly comprehensive book on applied Austrian monetary theory. He uses the Mises/Rothbard theory of money to reinterpret historical...

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Murray N. Rothbard vs. The Philosophers: Unpublished Writings on Hayek, Mises, Strauss, and Polanyi

Tags: Biographies

11/17/2009 • Roberta A. Modugno

Here is Rothbard’s stunning mind at work on some of the most serious topics in philosophy, economics, and politics, originally crafted as private memos. The advantage here is that you get super-candid evaluations of the thought of the giants...

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Murray N. Rothbard: In Memoriam

Tags: Biographies

06/01/1995 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

In perusing the essays in this volume, one reads over and over of Rothbard’s enthusiasm, his optimism, his zest for life, and especially his sense of humor. He was an enthusiast for many things—Austrian economics, libertarianism, politics, chess...

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My Years with Ludwig von Mises

Tags: Biographies

04/01/1984 • Margit von Mises

A moving account of her life with “Lu,” from their first days in Vienna to his death in New York in 1973. The reader learns that Mises was a warm and gentle husband, in addition to being a great mind. The author reports interesting anecdotes on...

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Nation, Migration, and Trade: Essays on Mises and the Classical Economists

Tags: Protectionism and Free Trade

09/03/2020 • Joseph T. Salerno

1. Mises on Nationalism, the Right to Self-Determination, and the Problem of Immigration 1. Introduction In the current discussion about immigration, Ludwig von Mises is often invoked by libertarians as a staunch proponent of free trade in the...

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Nation, State, and Economy

01/01/1919 • Ludwig von Mises

This was Mises’s second book. It was written following his military service in World War I. It is also his first book that dealt with political themes—and began Mises’s full-scale launch into the fight against collectivism that would be a theme...

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National Economy and Rotary

Tags: Global Economy

06/29/2010 • Ludwig von Mises

[In 1931, the International Rotary held its annual convention in Vienna, Austria. For the meeting, Rotary issued a tabloid. It contained information about Rotary’s agenda for that convention, its international activities, and articles by Rotary...

Nationalökonomie: Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens

05/09/1940 • Ludwig von Mises

Here is the German original of what later became Human Action. It was published first in 1940 after Mises’s years in exile in Geneva.

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Nations by Consent

10/10/2018 • Murray N. Rothbard

Libertarians tend to focus on two important units of analysis: the individual and the state. And yet, one of the most dramatic and significant events of our time has been the reemergence — with a bang — in the last five years of a third and much...

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Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture

05/28/2013 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

This monograph engages the long-running controversy about the origin of the state. Hoppe adopts the theory that extends from a Rothbardian view of the role of elites in society and their monopolistic tendencies. He further maps out a strategy...