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Collectivist Economic Planning

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07/28/1935 Friedrich A. Hayek

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises dropped a bombshell on the European economic world with his article called “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” It argued that socialism was impossible as an economic system. It set off two decades of...

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The Return to Laisser Faire

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06/05/1929 Sir Ernest Benn

From the author: In this book my endeavor will be to do two things for the benefit of students of politics and citizenship. I shall set myself out to discredit Socialism, but that is the least worthy and the least inspiring of my aims. I shall...

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The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically

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11/08/1926 Franz Oppenheimer

This is the 1908 book that started it all in the 20th century, the book that kicked off a century of anti-state, pro-property writing. This was the prototype for Nock’s writing, for Chodorov’s work, and even the theoretical edifice that later...

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Too Much Government, Too Much Taxation

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07/22/1923 Charles Normon Fay

From the author: This book is written to convince others, as I myself am convinced, quietly and without hysteria, that already, after but 146 years of national life, we Americans must face the same old fight with Too Much Government and Too Much...

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Our Money and the State

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08/25/1917 Hartley Withers

This book grew out of a course of lectures on Public Finance delivered at the London School of Economics in February and March. The subject had already been dealt with ably and fully by writers who had made a special study of it; but the present...

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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...

The Return to Protection

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04/13/1904 William Smart

William Smart was the outstanding Austrian in England during his generation, a leading advocate of the marginalist school. But he was more than that: he was a dedicated champion of laissez-faire trade policy in the tradition of Cobden and Bright...

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Protection or Free Trade

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06/04/1886 Henry George

Henry George endeavors to determine whether protection or free trade better accords with the interests of labor, and to bring to a common conclusion on this subject those who really desire to raise wages.

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Mises U 2025

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Mises U 2024

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