Intermediate

Then Truth Will Out

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10/15/1971 • Leonard E. Read

Civilization can mean nothing less than a society of civilized people. So how is a civilized person to be identified? A civilized person must recognize that man is at once a social and an individualistic being. Thus, he must not only be self...

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The Market for Liberty

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10/05/1970 • Morris and Linda Tannehill

Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and labored discipline. But other classics are written in a white heat during the moment of discovery, with prose that shines forth like the sun pouring into the window of a...

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America’s Great Depression

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01/01/1963 • Murray N. Rothbard

This book applies Austrian business cycle theory to understanding the onset of the 1929 Great Depression. Rothbard first summarizes the Austrian theory and offers a criticism of competing theories, including the views of Keynes. Rothbard then...

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Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market

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01/01/1962 • Murray N. Rothbard

Murray N. Rothbard’s great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austrian economic theory, a...

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Introduction to Economics

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05/27/1954 • John V. Van Sickle

From the authors: This is an elementary introduction to a vast field. We have deliberately refrained from bringing in many of the refinements of theory and for two reasons. First of all, these refinements seem more appropriate to a text for an...

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People’s Pottage

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06/15/1953 • Garet Garrett

A time came when the only people who had ever been free began to ask: “What is freedom?” Who wrote its articles — the strong or the weak? Was it an absolute good? Could there be such a thing as unconditional freedom, short of anarchy? Given the...

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The Place of Economics in Learning

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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 Discovery of Freedom

Tags: Homeschool Resource, Intermediate, Legal System

07/10/1943 • Rose Wilder Lane

With new forewords by Roger Lea MacBride and Hans F. Sennholz What an American original was Rose Wilder Lane! What a treasure! She lived from 1886 until 1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent collaborator on...

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The State

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06/01/1908 • Franz Oppenheimer

The author sought to overthrow centuries of fallacious thinking on the subject of the state’s origin, nature, and purpose, put its it place a view of the state that constitutes a foundational attack on the structure of modern society. He utterly...

Commerce and Government Considered in Their Mutual Relationship

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06/01/1776 • Étienne Bonnot Abbé de Condillac

This work is only recently translated into English but it shows that he should be held in high esteem, precisely as Rothbard wrote in his History of Economic Thought. Condillac’s Commerce and Government is one of the milestones in the history of...