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The Roots of Capitalism

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12/16/1965 • John Chamberlain

Capitalism is a system that can stand on its own attainments, writes John Chamberlain, and he offers here a fast-paced, provocative look at the intellectual forces and practical accomplishments that have created American capitalism. He begins at...

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The Free Market and Its Enemy

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07/15/1965 • Leonard E. Read

Read explores “the miraculous workings of tiny creativities, the ultimate constituents of the free market, that institution on which depend all liberties, and thus man’s emergence. And [the] State must have its perversions diagnosed if we are...

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Anything That’s Peaceful: The Case for the Free Market

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09/15/1964 • Leonard E. Read

Leonard Read was a great spokesman for liberty, and an excellent teacher in the second half of the 20th century. Everyone agrees that this is his most inspired collection. It includes the essay later called “I, Pencil,” which is a masterful...

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Economics of the Free Society

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05/31/1963 • Wilhelm Röpke

One year before the Nazi takeover of Austria, and after Mises had already accepted a research position in Geneva, a remarkable book began to circulate in what remained of Vienna’s intellectual circles. It was Die Lehre von der Wirtschaft, The...

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Planning for Freedom; and Twelve other Essays and Addresses

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05/15/1962 • Ludwig von Mises

An enduring collection of Mises’s essays, some popular and others scholarly, but always engaging and provocative. The first edition came out in 1952, and headlined the essay “Planning for Freedom,” which makes the point that the choice isn’t...

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Liberty and Property

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10/15/1958 • Ludwig von Mises

In 1958, the Mont Pelerin Society was entering a difficult period in which its intellectual lights were drifting away from liberalism of the old school. Ludwig von Mises used his speech that year to explain why this was a terrible trend. He didn...

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Prosperity Through Competition

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06/16/1958 • Ludwig Erhard

In postwar Germany, one great statesman led the fight for freedom: Ludwig Erhard. He was deeply influenced by Wilhelm Röpke, and drew heavily on the case for free markets made by Ludwig von Mises. He received his PhD from Franz Oppenheimer, the...

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The Free Man’s Library

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06/15/1956 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt did an incredible thing with this book. He created in a mere 180 pages an anthology of short reviews of 550 books on economics and politics, old and new, from the point of view of an Austro-libertarian. Hazlitt wrote it because he...

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The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

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06/15/1956 • Ludwig von Mises

In 1954, after a lifetime of serious theoretical work in economic science, Mises turned his attention to one of the great puzzles of all time: discovering why the intellectuals hate capitalism. The result is this socio-psycho-cultural analysis...

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Essentials of Economics

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02/21/1956 • Faustino Ballvé

Faustino Ballvé was a remarkable thinker and economist, educated in Spain and England and teaching and practicing law in Mexico City. He was there when Ludwig von Mises came to speak on a lecture tour. The talks that Ballvé heard sparked a new...

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