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The Path of Duty

09/15/1982 • Leonard E. Read

“Our grand business,” wrote Thomas Carlyle, “is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” Thus did he warn us against vainly trying to foretell the future. So, let us do what lies clearly at hand-right now...

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The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics

Tags: Mises U Required Readings, Introductory

06/17/1994 • David Gordon

The Austrian School of economics arose in opposition to the German Historical School; and Carl Menger developed his methodological views in combat with the rival group. Gordon discusses the philosophical doctrines of the Historical School, and...

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The Philosophy of Ownership

01/01/1966 • Robert LeFevre

The significance of property ownership has rarely been fully appreciated, writes Robert LeFevre. He proceeds to present the entire libertarian case for private ownership, with his characteristic clarity of exposition. He makes what is a...

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The Place of Economics in Learning

Tags: Intermediate, Education

09/14/1949 • Ludwig von Mises

“The Place of Economics in Learning” is a chapter from Human Action . It provides an excellent overview of the Misesian worldview concerning economics. It touches on enough points — methodologically, educationally, politically — to invite and...

The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton

Tags: Biographies, World History

09/15/1970 • Ralph Raico

Forty years ago, historian Ralph Raico completed his dissertation under the direction of F.A. Hayek at the University of Chicago. Its title masks its power and importance: The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville...

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The Political Economy of Juan De Mariana

04/19/1928 • John Laures, S.J.

Juan de Mariana (1536-1624), a major thinker of the Spanish renaissance, was a founder of economic science. This study of his writings and legacy appeared in 1928 and has not been reprinted until now. Prof. Fr. Laures explores his thinking on...

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The Political Economy of Monopoly

10/21/1952 • Fritz Machlup

Intended as a textbook, this is Fritz Machlup’s sophisticated — yet readily comprehensible — introduction to the subject at hand.

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The Political Economy of William Graham Sumner: A Study in the History of Free-Enterprise Ideas

Tags: Biographies, Free Markets

07/20/1966 • Dominick Armentano

From the author: The following is a study in the history of free enterprise ideas. Specifically it presents the political economy of William Graham Sumner, highlighting the ideas and analysis that mark his contribution to economic thought, and...

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History

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

12/01/2004 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

The winners write the history, and the winning states especially so. Thomas Woods, however, sets out to write a primer on American history from a different point of view, one that doesn’t glorify centralization and intervention. The result is...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism

Tags: Introductory, Education, Free Markets, U.S. Economy

04/09/2007 • Robert P. Murphy

The anti-capitalists are still with us, and how. Robert Murphy has decided to give them an in-your-face economics education that they won’t forget — ever. His approach comes from years of teaching undergraduates and dealing with the most common...

The Politicization of Society

Tags: Introductory

09/01/1977 • Kenneth S. Templeton, Jr.

The most famous essay in this great collection is Murray Rothbard’s “Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor”--perhaps the best explanation of the division of labor ever written. This attack also shows how statism represents a...

The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Tags: World History

01/01/1553 • Étienne de la Boétie

States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant—when consent is withdrawn. This is the thesis of this thrilling book. Murray Rothbard writes a classic introduction to one of the great political essays in the history...

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The Politics of Unemployment

Tags: Introductory

01/11/2016 • Hans F. Sennholz

The modern age of economic intervention began under the pretense of helping workers. Professor Sennholz demolishes the entire edifice that gave rise to this movement. We were told that workers must be organized into unions. They must have job...

The Positive Theory of Capital

09/27/1889 • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

This is the second book in the series of Böhm-Bawerk translations by Scottish economist William Smart, originally published in 1891. It is, as the title suggests, the positive theory of capital. It begins with full front matter by Smart himself...

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The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America

01/11/2016 • Robert A. Nisbet

Robert Nisbet argues here that conservatism has become as corrupt as liberalism in its celebration of militarism and war and its unrelenting call for the state to monitor and regulate private life. Far from sustaining the culture, this approach...

The Principles of Economics, With Applications to Practical Problems

06/15/1905 • Frank A. Fetter

Frank Fetter’s 1904 treatise, Principles of Economics, virtually impossible to find prior to this online edition, constructed a general theory of economics in the Austrian tradition that went unsurpassed until Ludwig von Mises’s treatise of 1940...

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The Private Production of Defense

Tags: Featured, War and Foreign Policy

12/01/1998 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans Hoppe takes on the most difficult subject in economic and political theory: the provision of security. He argues that the service is better provided by free markets than government, while addressing a hundred counter-arguments. Here we have...

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The Privatization of Roads and Highways

Tags: Free Markets

04/08/2009 • Walter Block

Purchase the audiobook version at Audible.com The Mises Institute is pleased to introduce Walter Block’s remarkable new treatise on private roads, a 494-page book that will cause you to rethink the whole of the way modern transportation networks...

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The Production of Security

Tags: Legal System

02/15/2015 • Gustave de Molinari

The introduction to this stunning work is by Murray Rothbard, who calls French radical Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) the great innovator in the market provision of security. Indeed, he might be regarded as the first proponent of what is called...

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The Progressive Era

11/09/2017 • Murray N. Rothbard

The Progressive Era ushered the modern American politico-economic system into being.

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