Listen to the global leaders of cryptocurrency, and one common theme emerges: read Mises.
From the beginning, the visionaries who created, embraced, and built upon Bitcoin have seen the value of the Austrian school of economics and the work of leaders like Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, and Hülsmann. Now more than ever, there is nothing more important than people understanding the need to separate money from the state.
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The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises
This classic treatise on monetary theory remains the definitive book on the foundations of monetary theory, and the first really great integration of microeconomics and macroeconomics. As Rothbard points out in his introduction to “the best book on money ever written,” economists have yet to absorb all its lessons.
There’s a reason Caitlin Long of Custodia Bank has encouraged everyone in the Bitcoin space to “read your Mises” in warning against scams like FTX.
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A History of Money and Banking in the United States by Murray Rothbard
In a complete revision of the standard account, Rothbard traces inflations, banking panics, and money meltdowns from the Colonial Period through the mid-20th century to show how government’s systematic war on sound money is the hidden force behind nearly all major economic calamities in American history. Never has the story of money and banking been told with such rhetorical power and theoretical vigor.
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Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State delivers a razor-sharp dissection of government as no benevolent protector, but a predatory organization that monopolizes violence and acquires wealth solely through coercion—“political means”—rather than productive exchange.
Endorsed by Jack Dorsey, this short read tends to change one’s view of the state forever.
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For A New Liberty by Murray Rothbard
In For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from traditional politics. Libertarianism is Rothbard’s radical alternative that says state power is unworkable and immoral and ought to be curbed and finally abolished.
To make his case, Rothbard deploys his entire system of thought: natural law, natural rights, Austrian economics, American history, the theory of the state, and more.
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The Last Knight of Liberalism by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
The definitive biography of Ludwig von Mises, the foremost uncompromising defender of sound money and free markets of his time. This riveting narrative vividly illustrates the rise of the Austrian tradition, the devastation done to civilization through two world wars, Mises’s escape from Europe, and how he gave birth to a new movement from his new home of New York City.
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