Booms and Busts

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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Capital and Production

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10/29/1934 • Richard von Strigl

Richard Ritter von Strigl (1891–1942) was one of the most brilliant Austrian economists of the interwar period. As a professor at the University of Vienna he had a decisive influence on Hayek, Machlup, Haberler, Morgenstern, and other fourth...

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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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