U.S. Economy

The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 1: The Major Works

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06/15/1978 • F.A. Harper

From the Introduction by Paul Poirot: In these collected writings of F. A. Harper, concerned with liberty in the broadest sense, are to be found some of his conclusions. But the reader will also find throughout his works a series of carefully...

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The Economic Mind in American Civilization: 1606-1865, Volume Two

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10/14/1966 • Joseph Dorfman

This detailed history of American economic thought from colonial times to 1933 is based on extensive, systematic research into not only printed publications but also elusive archival material including papers and letters. In many instances...

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American Liberalism and World Politics: 1931-1941

Tags: U.S. Economy, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

08/27/1964 • James J. Martin

From the foreword by John Chamberlain: This animated jumbo of a book, which is alive with the savor and color of a long departed time when half-forgotten figures like Oswald Garrison Villard and Raymond Gram Swing were setting our intellectual...

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America’s Great Depression

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01/01/1963 • Murray N. Rothbard

This book applies Austrian business cycle theory to understanding the onset of the 1929 Great Depression. Rothbard first summarizes the Austrian theory and offers a criticism of competing theories, including the views of Keynes. Rothbard then...

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The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies

Tags: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

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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Men, Motors, and Markets

Tags: The Entrepreneur, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/15/1959 • Dean Russell

During the early history of the automobile industry, practically every part of the car was produced by the independent manufacturers of parts. The automobile companies merely assembled the parts into a complete car. And as often as not, it was...

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The American Story

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05/27/1955 • Garet Garrett

He was a defender of free enterprise who adored the magnificence of the American genius for progress. He was a champion of business who believed in profiting the old fashioned way. He was a libertarian who deplored the rise of big government. He...

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The Mainspring of Human Progress

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03/15/1953 • Henry Grady Weaver

What has capitalism contributed to civilization? It made it. And nowhere has it thrived so beautifully as in America, the country that threw off the static old world to make a new one rooted in progress and individualism. With incredible...

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Economics and the Public Welfare

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05/04/1949 • Benjamin Anderson

Here is a contemporaneous account of the economic history of the first half of the 20th century, by an American adherent of the Austrian School. Covered in these pages is the inflation of World War I and following, the 1920s boom, and the onset...

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Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War

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09/29/1947 • George Morgenstern

George Morgenstern’s Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War has to be one of the bravest books ever written. It’s a wonder it came out at all, but it did, in 1947, just as the war ended and FDR had died. It argues that the bombing was not...

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