Booms and Busts

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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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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