Intermediate

The Case for Legalizing Capitalism

Tags: Intermediate, Free Markets

07/14/2010 • Kel Kelly

What’s the “American system” of economics? Most people would say it is capitalism, which thereby deserves all fault when anything goes wrong. Well, Kel Kelly responds to this myth in this fast-paced and darn-near comprehensive treatment of the...

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The Prehistory of Modern Economic Thought: The Aristotle in Austrian Theory

Tags: History of the Austrian School of Economics, Other Schools of Thought

08/03/2009 • Justin M. Ptak

Philosophers of the ancient world provided insight into the economic theory we discuss today.

Action, Coordination, and Exchange: Voluntary Response to Stimuli in Profit-Seeking Endeavors

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Political Theory, Value and Exchange

08/03/2009 • Justin M. Ptak

The key to civilization is found in the golden rule combined with the modern coordination of market catallactics.

Our Enemy, the State

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate

07/22/2009 • Albert Jay Nock

What does one need to know about politics? In some ways, Nock has summed it all up in this astonishing book, the influence of which has grown every year since its publication. This edition is supplemented by a sweeping introduction by Butler...

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Labor Economics From a Free Market Perspective

Tags: Intermediate

03/28/2008 • Walter Block

Walter Block, in this large collection of his writings on the topic, avoids no controversial issue in the course of a consistent application of Austrian labor theory. He begins with the determination of wages in a market economy and defends the...

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 Great Austrian Economists

Tags: Intermediate, Featured, Biographies

11/22/1999 • Randall G. Holcombe

The Austrian tradition began formally with Carl Menger’s 1871 work, Principles of Economics. But its roots stretch back to the late-Scholastic period, when philosophers first began to think systematically about the relationship between human...

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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 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...

Money and Freedom

Tags: Intermediate, Legal System, Money and Banks

06/01/1985 • Hans F. Sennholz

Hans Sennholz was a great champion of the Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and also the Misesian view of money. He was a proponent of the gold standard, and this is his aggressive defense of Austrian theory against monetarism and supply...

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