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God’s Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times

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06/15/1932 John T. Flynn

In 1932, John T. Flynn had begun to rethink his old-style “progressivism” to develop intellectually into a defender of markets as against the regimentation of government management. A first product of these steps is this classic and...

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On Doing the Right Thing

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06/15/1928 Albert Jay Nock

This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his “Anarchist’s Progress,” “Thoughts on Revolution,” “The Decline of Conversation,” and other classics by this great American essayist and influential...

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Jefferson

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06/15/1926 Albert Jay Nock

Here is Albert Jay Nock’s classic study on the life and thought of Thomas Jefferson, a book which draws out points other biographers have missed: his radicalism, his opposition to all centralized government, his attachment to liberty and...

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Liberty and the Great Libertarians

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02/26/1913 Charles T. Sprading

In 1913, Charles T. Sprading (1871-1959) wrote a book of remarkable prescience that anticipated the systematic development of an American libertarian tradition. He called it Liberty and the Great Libertarians. What he provided was a biography...

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How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men and Women Told by Themselves

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03/23/1901 Orison Swett Marden

The Gilded Age produced not only some of the richest men and women of all time; its freedom and opportunities built a nation of people of superlative character. This fantastic book from 1901 provides an in-depth look at the lives and choices of...

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Great French Writers: Turgot

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04/30/1888 Leon Say

For an those who have related to us his life, who have collected with a pious care his most trifling sayings, his slightest writings, Turgot is a great mind, one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century, the greatest, perhaps, next to...

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Murray N. Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist

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Joseph T. Salerno Patrick Newman

An intellectual biography tracing Rothbard's transformation from a neoclassically trained Columbia graduate student into Ludwig von Mises's most im

Murray N. Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist

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Joseph T. Salerno Patrick Newman

We hope Murray N. Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist serves as a useful complementary volume to Man, Economy, and State by elucidating Rothbard’s many contributions and the process by which he developed an integrated structure of economic theory using the praxeological method.

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Essays in Political Economy

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04/05/1997

Essays in Political Economy are long articles dealing with how economics best works in the free market.

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Austrian Economics Newsletter

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08/05/2014

The Austrian Economics Newsletter (AEN) published from 1977 to 2003. A forum for news about Austrian economics and produced by students.

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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

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