Books

Wealth: A Brief Explanation of the Causes of Economic Welfare

Tags: Money and Banks

06/15/1948 • Edwin Cannan

Wealth has so generally been identified with the subject-matter of economics that we need not hesitate to treat the question, “What is wealth?” as exactly the same question as “What is it most convenient to take as the subject-matter of...

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What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Tags: Featured, Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Mises U Required Readings, Money and Banks

06/15/1963 • Murray N. Rothbard

Click here to get your free copy of What Has Government Done To Our Money? When this gem first appeared in 1963, it took the form of a small paperback designed for mass distribution. Innumerable economists, investors, commentators, and authors...

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What Must Be Done

Tags: Big Government, The Police State

06/24/2009 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

How should anarcho-capitalists engage the modern state? Hans-Hermann Hoppe dissects the nature of the modern democratic state and suggests strategies for enacting a bottom-up libertarian revolution in ideology and civil government. Hoppe begins...

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What Social Classes Owe Each Other

06/27/1883 • William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a sociologist at Yale University, a historian of American banking, and great expositor of classical liberalism. Yes, this is the man often dismissed today as an outmoded “social Darwinist” — and this book...

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What We Know and What We Don’t Know about the Firm

Tags: The Entrepreneur

03/08/2019 • Per Bylund

[This is a chapter from The Problem of Production: A New Theory of the Firm.] This book is about what is generally referred to as the ‘firm’, a phenomenon in the market that appears obvious but that remains difficult to explain. While there is a...

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What You Should Know About Inflation

Tags: Money and Banks

07/01/1964 • Henry Hazlitt

The book’s title— What You Should Know About Inflation—only hints at the extent of the issues that Hazlitt addresses. He presents the Austrian theory of money in the clearest possible terms, and contrasts it with the fallacies of government...

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Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, Money and Banks, World History

01/08/2016 • Richard J. Maybury

It’s true that economic theory is a subject for adults — you don’t want to assign Human Action to an 11-year old — but kids can be taught plenty too. They don’t need details about epistemology or exchange rates. But by enticing them into the...

When Mainstream Economics Was Wrong, Mark Thornton Was Right

Tags: Booms and Busts

08/11/2018 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

[ Foreword to Mark Thornton’s new book The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 2018).] In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the economics...

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When Money Dies

Tags: Introductory, Money and Banks, World History

06/01/1975 • Adam Fergusson

The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany. This was a time of bizarre parallels: amazing riches coinciding with terrible poverty, mass quantities of money coinciding with a shortage of money, mania and...

Where Keynes Went Wrong

10/01/2009 • Hunter Lewis

Hunter Lewis’s book Where Keynes Went Wrong was the greatest literary surprise of 2009, a welcome relief from a slew of awful books on economics appearing in the popular press. Lewis’s book is thoroughly Austrian, a recapitulation of Hazlitt’s...

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Where Lies This Fault?

06/21/1967 • Leonard E. Read

In this 1967 essay, Leonard Read lays out what might best be termed a sociological study of libertarian activism. Read attempts to identify different types of personalities and individuals who are likely to be amenable or resistant to the...

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While You Slept

Tags: Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/01/1951 • John T. Flynn

The amazing step-by-step, person-by-person story of how the American left wing took over our most influential media — radio, movies, magazines and books — and persuaded our leaders to support the Communist Plan to turn China and Korea over to...

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Who’s Listening?

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Education

05/15/1973 • Leonard E. Read

Listening to the truth always has fortunate results. What does my listening reveal? That learning the truth or spreading wisdom—education—is now and forever an in-taking, never an out-bursting procedure. It may be possible for me to see your...

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Why American History Is Not What They Say

Tags: U.S. History

10/24/2012 • Jeff Riggenbach

Jeff Riggenbach’s book is a godsend for anyone who needs a crash course in revisionist history of the United States. What is revisionism? It is the retelling of history from a point of view that differs from the mainstream, which always treats...

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Why Austrian Economics Matters

Tags: Featured, Introductory

08/01/2007 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

This speech by Lew Rockwell was delivered at the Heritage Foundation, and even at the time was regarded as the best single overview of the teachings of the Austrian school, its contribution to the history of ideas, and the political implications...

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Why Do So Many Intellectuals Hate Free Markets?

Tags: Free Markets, Media and Culture

08/24/2020 • Ralph Raico

[This article is excerpted from chapter 3 of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School. Footnote numbering differs from the original.] Hayek on the Intellectuals and Socialism F.A. Hayek was acutely concerned with our problem, since he, too...

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Why Not Try Freedom

Tags: Introductory

06/15/1958 • Leonard E. Read

Liberty is an outward creation of man which he has adopted for himself and whose use and enjoyment he reserves for mankind as a whole, for which he struggles and to which he dedicates consciously or unconsciously his highest efforts. But at the...

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Why So Much Hate for the Free Market?

Tags: Book Reviews, Socialism

04/07/2022 • David Gordon

The Power of Capitalism: A Journey through Recent History across Five Continents By Rainer Zitelmann LID Publishing, 2018 xiv + 233 pages Dr. Rainer Zitelmann is best known to the scholarly world for his outstanding study of Adolf Hitler’s...

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Why Understanding the Progressive Era Still Matters

Tags: U.S. History

10/11/2017 • Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Editor’s Note: Murray Rothbard’s new masterwork, The Progressive Era , is now available for purchase. Judge Napolitano’s preface below speaks to why the Progressive Era is so key to our understanding of modern America. This is the first of many...

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Why Wages Rise

Tags: Money and Banks

01/01/1957 • F.A. Harper

From Harper’s Introduction: Wages are of prime importance in any advanced economy such as ours. They affect us all far more than seems evidenced in our concern about them. I shall deal with the wage problem in a manner that may seem...

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