Booms and Busts

A Treatise on Currency and Banking

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10/04/1966 • Condy Raguet

This remarkable hard-money treatise appeared in 1840. It is by Condy Raguet (1784-1842), a noted Pennsylvania politician and economist who worked as a merchant in several Latin American countries. He was wholly dedicated to free trade, the free...

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Capitalism and the Historians

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04/15/1963 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Even today, social scientists and historians continue to treat the Industrial Revolution as if it were the beginning of the end of civilization. What the essays in this book do is show the opposite. It was in many ways the beginning of a new...

The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies

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07/20/1962 • Murray N. Rothbard

The panic of 1819 was America’s first great economic crisis. And this is Murray Rothbard’s masterful account, the first full scholarly book on the topic and still the most definitive. It was his dissertation, published in 1962 but nearly...

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The Economics of Illusion

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02/15/1949 • L. Albert Hahn

L. Albert Hahn was one of the most highly regarded economists and bankers in Germany before World War II, but he was unknown in the United States until this translation of The Economics of Illusion appeared in 1949. He immigrated to the United...

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Prosperity and Depression

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07/17/1946 • Gottfried Haberler

Are you serious about business cycle theory? In 1937, back when economists thought big and coherent thoughts about the boom-bust cycle, long before mainstream economists began to doubt the existence of theoretical universals, Professor Gottfried...

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A Time is Born

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01/30/1944 • Garet Garrett

During an interlude of twenty-one years between two global wars Heaven swung low and then high again. When it was very low, seeming almost to touch the hill tops, the human race prepared to celebrate the death of poverty. In the whole world...

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The Pure Theory of Capital

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11/27/1941 • Friedrich A. Hayek

The greatest failing of non-Austrian theories of macroeconomics, it’s been said, is that they lack a robust theory of capital. F.A. Hayek sought to fill out the theory of the business cycle with an impenetrable one, and the result was this...

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Interventionism: An Economic Analysis

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01/01/1940 • Ludwig von Mises

Shortly after arriving in the United States, having fled a war-torn Europe, Ludwig von Mises sat down to complete his trilogy on economic systems. The result was this remarkably concise treatise, which tragically was not published until 1998...

The New Deal in Old Rome

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05/15/1939 • H. J. Haskell

What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. This book was a smash hit when it first came out in 1939, and yet it went out of print, and hasn’t been in print in half a century. H.J. Haskell was a journalist...

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Crises and Cycles

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03/15/1936 • Wilhelm Röpke

It’s hard to say what is the most rare, most hard to find, most buried important book, in the history of the Austrian School. But this splendid and critically important treatise would certainly be among the nominees. Until this edition, this...

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