U.S. Economy

Will Dollars Save the World?

Tags: Global Economy, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/15/1947 • Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt had left the New York Times in an ideological disagreement over post-war economic policy. Once he left, he was free to speak his mind on the important issues of the day, among which the Marshall Plan. This is his blockbuster...

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As We Go Marching

Tags: Big Government, U.S. Economy

06/15/1944 • John T. Flynn

John T. Flynn’s classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. In some ways, this is the finest and most mature of all his works. It was written in wartime and his points were profoundly cutting. After all, the U.S...

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The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution

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

09/15/1940 • John T. Flynn

Flynn remarks on the impetus behind this powerful book: I wrote this book to answer a question that practically everybody is asking: “Where are we heading?” More people ask that question than any other.... I thought it was about time for someone...

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Capitalism the Creator

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

02/26/1940 • Carl Snyder

There is one way, and only one way, that any people, in all history, have ever risen from barbarism and poverty to affluence and culture; and that is by that concentrated and highly organized system of production and exchange which we call...

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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

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

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

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

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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Tariff History of the United States

Tags: Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/15/1890 • F.W. Taussig

The Mises Institute has completely re-typeset F.W. Taussig’s definitive work on the tariffs of the 19th century in the United States, a history that in some sense is the most important ever written because it was so decisive in leading to the...

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A History of American Currency

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

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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Libertarian Papers

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

02/04/2009

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Everything About Money

Tags: Inflation, U.S. Economy, Bitcoin, The Fed, Labor and Wages, Money and Banks, Monetary Policy

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Recorded at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Orlando, Florida, on May 14, 2022.