Booms and Busts

The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Booms from Colonial Days to the Present Times

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08/12/1932 • A. M. Sakolski

Those who lived through the huge speculative real estate bubble of the 1990s through 2008 might have imagined that it was unprecedented. Not so. Far from it! This definitive history of land speculation provides a well-documented but hugely...

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The Bubble that Broke the World

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06/01/1932 • Garet Garrett

What caused the stock-market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed? This book blows away the conventional interpretations, not only in its contents but that the book exists at all. The Bubble that Broke the World was written in...

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Prices and Production and Other Works

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09/15/1931 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Hayek was not only a leading champion of liberty in the 20th century. As this massive book reveals, he was also a great economist whose elaboration on monetary theory and the business cycle made him the leading foe of Keynesian theory and policy...

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Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle

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01/01/1929 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Published originally in 1929, Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle is the first essay Friedrich A. Hayek wrote. It serves as a primer into Hayek’s monetary and capital theories. In it, he takes the time to dismember opposing monetary theories of...

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Geldwertstabilisierung und Konjunkturpolitik

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06/15/1928 • Ludwig von Mises

The 1928 German edition of Mises’s On the Manipulation of Money and Credit.

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Die geldtheoretische Seite des Stabilisierungsproblems

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07/20/1923 • Ludwig von Mises

The German version of Stabilization of the Monetary Unit, From the Viewpoint of Theory. Explains Mises: “Attempts to stabilize the value of the monetary unit strongly influence the monetary policy of almost every nation today.”

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The Case for Capitalism

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08/25/1920 • Hartley Withers

From the author: To make a better world we want better men and women. No reform of laws and institutions and economic systems will bring it unless it produces them. Institutions and systems that turn men and women into machines working under the...

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Bank Credit

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08/15/1920 • Chester A. Phillips

The purpose of this 1931 textbook is two-fold: to develop the principles of bank credit considered in the abstract and to set forth the main factors underlying the loans made, the credit extended, by banks to borrowers. Part One is devoted...

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A History of American Currency

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06/07/1874 • William Graham Sumner

The author, William Graham Sumner, was the great sociologist of late 19th century America, but also a wise observer of economic conditions. In 1874, in the midst of another debate about the future of the American monetary system, he offered this...

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The White House, the Fed, and the Economy: What’s in Store for 2024

Tags: Monetary Theory, Central Banks, The Fed, Money and Banks, Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy, Financial Markets, Monetary Policy

• Mises Institute

Bob Murphy, Patrick Newman, Jonathan Newman, and Murray Sabrin cut through the campaign talking points and offer an uncompromising look at what is