Books

The Economics of Prohibition

Tags: Featured, Health, The Police State

12/01/1991 • Mark Thornton

It is conventional wisdom that alcohol prohibition failed, but the economic reasons for this failure have never been as extensively detailed or analyzed as they are in this study by Mark Thornton. The lessons he draws apply not only to the...

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The Economics of Sellers’ Competition

10/20/1952 • Fritz Machlup

This book provides a solid foundation analytical economic reasoning, and is intended to be a companion volume with The Political Economy of Monopoly.

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The Economics of the Colour Bar

Tags: The Police State, World History

04/25/1964 • William H. Hutt

Who were the original and most passionate opponents of apartheid in South Africa? The classical liberals, and this book was their most important weapon against the problem of racial injustice. William H. Hutt, an Austro-classical economist in...

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The Enterprise of Law: Justice without the State

Tags: Intermediate, Legal System

06/01/1990 • Bruce L. Benson

Benson argues that public dissatisfaction with legal institutions is as prevalent as public disgust with many public institutions. That’s hardly surprising. They are funded through taxes, run by bureaucracies, are famously inefficient, lack the...

The Essential Rothbard

Tags: Introductory, Biographies

02/26/2007 • David Gordon

Here is the book for the Age of Rothbard, precisely the primer that is needed at a time when his influence—as the most radical and compelling intellectual force in the second half of the 20th century—is higher than during any time during his...

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The Ethics of Liberty

Tags: Intermediate, Big Government

07/20/2005 • Murray N. Rothbard

Murray Rothbard’s greatest contribution to the politics of freedom is back in print. Following up on Mises’s demonstration that a society without private property degenerates into economic chaos, Rothbard shows that every interference with...

The Ethics of Money Production

10/22/2008 • Jörg Guido Hülsmann

This pioneering work by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, professor of economics at the University of Angers in France and the author of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, is the first full study of a critically important issue today: the ethics of money...

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The Ethics of Redistribution

Tags: Introductory

01/11/2016 • Bertrand de Jouvenel

After many years of being out of print, this classic treatise from the brilliant political philosopher De Jouvenel (1952) provides an answer to a critical question: what is morally wrong with the idea of political management of incomes? Nearly...

The Fight for Liberty: Past, Present, and Future

Tags: Media and Culture, Strategy, U.S. History

01/12/2026 • Ryan McMaken

The Fight over Economics Is a Fight over Culture The Left long ago figured out how to get ordinary people interested in economic policy. The strategy is two pronged. The first part is to frame the problem as a moral problem. The second part is...

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The Forging of American Socialism

Tags: U.S. History

06/16/1953 • Howard Quint

From the author: Today the United States remains the last great citadel of capitalistic democracy. An organized and institutionalized American socialist movement as such, moreover, is virtually a matter of past history. Of course, some...

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The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

Tags: Legal System, Media and Culture

12/10/1919 • William Graham Sumner

Sumner’s dominant interest in political economy, as revealed in his teaching and writing, issued in a doughty advocacy of “free trade and hard money,” and involved the relentless exposure of protectionism and of schemes of currency-debasement...

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The Fortunes of Liberalism

Tags: Intermediate

06/01/1992 • Friedrich A. Hayek

The Fortunes of Liberalism collects Hayek’s writings on various Austrians such as Wieser, Mises, Schumpeter, Menger, Ropke, Leoni, and Strigl, as well as Mach, Clark, Mitchell, de Jouvenel, and Acton. It includes interpretative essays on the...

The Foundations of Morality

10/04/1964 • Henry Hazlitt

Here is Hazlitt’s major philosophical work, in which he grounds a policy of private property and free markets in an ethic of classical utilitarianism, understood in the way Mises understood that term. In writing this book, Hazlitt is reviving an...

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The Free Man’s Library

Tags: Free Markets

06/15/1956 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt did an incredible thing with this book. He created in a mere 180 pages an anthology of short reviews of 550 books on economics and politics, old and new, from the point of view of an Austro-libertarian. Hazlitt wrote it because he...

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The Free Market and Its Enemies

Tags: Intermediate, Free Markets

01/11/2016 • Ludwig von Mises

This is a “new” book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a writer...

The Free Market and Its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

03/25/2004 • Ludwig von Mises

This is a “new” book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a writer...

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The Free Market and Its Enemy

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

07/15/1965 • Leonard E. Read

Read explores “the miraculous workings of tiny creativities, the ultimate constituents of the free market, that institution on which depend all liberties, and thus man’s emergence. And [the] State must have its perversions diagnosed if we are...

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The Free Market Reader

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

08/29/1988 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

One of the best introductions to libertarian/free market thought and is “straightforward, logical, and fun.” What you will find here are one hundred plus short essays on every topic related to free-market economics, all from the years of the...

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The Freedom Answer Book: How the Government Is Taking Away Your Constitutional Freedom

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Legal System

01/11/2016 • Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

The government is taking away basic freedoms granted under the Constitution. This helpful guide gives a clear vision of what your rights are and how you can protect them. In order to truly understand the freedoms we have as people of the United...

The Freedom Freeway

Tags: Introductory

09/15/1979 • Leonard E. Read

A freeway is defined as a “multi-lane highway designed to move traffic along smoothly and quickly.” The freedom freeway is strikingly similar: It is a multi-million-Iane politico-economic highway, along which speed goods and services, as well as...

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