Books

Economic Indulgences: Old and New Debates on Welfare and Freedom

09/09/2016 • David Cowan

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture In this lecture, I will look at a debate in the 1960s between Frank Knight, the subject of my new book (2006) in Palgrave Macmillan’s Great Thinkers...

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Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought

Tags: World History

06/15/1960 • Israel M. Kirzner

Israel Kirzner is an outstanding student of Mises’s, and here is his sweeping defense of the Misesian definition of the scope and meaning of economic science. He compares the Misesian view of human action with the neoclassical and classical...

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Economic Policy: Discussion Questions

Tags: Economic Policy

09/09/2024 • Karras Lambert

This guide is based on Karras Lambert’s summer 2024 Mises Book Club discussions of Ludwig von Mises’s Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics and Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow.

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Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Tags: Introductory, Free Markets

07/20/1979 • Ludwig von Mises

This might be Mises’s best-selling book. It is a very clear explanation of the basics of economic policy: private property, free trade, exchange, prices, interest, money and inflation, socialism, fascism, investment, and much more. As Mises...

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Economic Principles

09/15/1915 • Frank A. Fetter

Frank A. Fetter was a leading American follower of Carl Menger and the early Austrians. He was the first economist to develop a complete statement of the pure time preference theory of interest, and he revolutionized the theory of rent which had...

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Economic Science and the Austrian Method

02/26/1995 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

A definitive defense of the methodological foundations of Austrian economics. Hoppe sets the praxeological view (economics as a purely deductive science) against positivism, while taking the critics of the Austrian approach head on. Hans-Hermann...

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Economic Theory of Costs: Foundations and New Directions

06/28/2018 • Matthew McCaffrey

The theory of costs is a cornerstone of economic thinking, and figures crucially in the study of human action and society. From the first day of a principles-level course to the most advanced academic literature, costs play a vital role in...

Economics and Its Opponents

Tags: Free Markets

06/19/2018 • Ludwig von Mises

Among the great books of mankind are the immortal writings by the Greek philosopher Plato. The Republic and The Laws, written 2300 to 2400 years ago, dealt not only with philosophy, the theory of knowledge, epistemology, but also with social...

Economics and Moral Courage

12/21/2022 • Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Lew Rockwell gave this talk, sponsored by the Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Economics Club, at George Mason University on September 9, 2009.

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Economics and the Public Welfare

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

05/04/1949 • Benjamin Anderson

Here is a contemporaneous account of the economic history of the first half of the 20th century, by an American adherent of the Austrian School. Covered in these pages is the inflation of World War I and following, the 1920s boom, and the onset...

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Economics for Real People

Tags: Education

01/01/2002 • Gene Callahan

The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn’t about government planning or...

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Economics in One Lesson

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Introductory, Free Markets

12/29/2011 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt wrote this book following his stint at the New York Times as an editorialist. His hope was to reduce the whole teaching of economics to a few principles and explain them in ways that people would never forget. It worked. He relied...

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Economics in Service of the State: The Empiricism of Richard T. Ely

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

03/08/2018 • Murray N. Rothbard

[Excerpt from Murray Rothbard, The Progressive Era, Patrick Newman, ed. (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2017), from chap. 13 “World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals,” pp. 428–36.] World War I was the apotheosis of the growing...

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Economics of the Free Society

Tags: Free Markets

05/31/1963 • Wilhelm Röpke

One year before the Nazi takeover of Austria, and after Mises had already accepted a research position in Geneva, a remarkable book began to circulate in what remained of Vienna’s intellectual circles. It was Die Lehre von der Wirtschaft, The...

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Economy, Society, and History

Tags: Socialism, Strategy

07/22/2021 • Hans-Hermann Hoppe

In June 2004, Professor Hoppe visited the Mises Institute in Auburn to deliver an ambitious series of lectures titled Economy, Society, and History. Over ten lectures, one each morning and afternoon for a week, Dr. Hoppe presented nothing short...

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Education and the State

Tags: Introductory, Education

06/01/1965 • E. G. West

Education and the State first appeared in 1965 and was immediately hailed as one of the century’s most important works on education. In the thirty years that have followed, the questions this book raised concerning state-run education have grown...

Education in America

Tags: Big Government, Education, Taxes and Spending, U.S. History

07/15/1969 • George Charles Roche III

From the author: Increasing numbers of Americans express concern over the deterioration of modem society, accurately pinpointing various failings-social, political, and economic. Most of us are far better at discovering shortcomings than...

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Education: Free and Compulsory

Tags: Education

01/03/1979 • Murray N. Rothbard

What is it about today’s school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level of...

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Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical

Tags: Education

11/07/1860 • Herbert Spencer

This book originally appeared as four review articles: the first in the Westminster Review, the second in the North British Review, and the remaining two in the British Quarterly Review. I. What is Knowledge Most Worth? II. Intellectual...

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Effects of the War on the Money, Banking, Credit System of the United States

Tags: Money and Banks

09/27/1919 • Benjamin Anderson

Students of money, banking, and finance will find this volume filled with solid information and marked by penetrating insight and illuminating interpretation. It is an interpretative and judicially critical record for both countries of the main...

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