World History

The Roots of Capitalism

Tags: Free Markets, World History

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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An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain

Tags: Global Economy, World History

09/17/1965 • Henry Thornton

In this book, which was recovered after being lost for over 100 years, Henry Thornton defends the Bank of England’s influence on paper money.

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The Economics of the Colour Bar

Tags: The Police State, World History

04/25/1964 • William H. Hutt

Who were the original and most passionate opponents of apartheid in South Africa? The classical liberals, and this book was their most important weapon against the problem of racial injustice. William H. Hutt, an Austro-classical economist in...

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Capitalism and the Historians

Tags: Introductory, Booms and Busts, World History

04/15/1963 • Friedrich A. Hayek

Even today, social scientists and historians continue to treat the Industrial Revolution as if it were the beginning of the end of civilization. What the essays in this book do is show the opposite. It was in many ways the beginning of a new...

Triumph of Gold

Tags: Global Economy, World History

10/09/1961 • Charles Rist

Charles Rist explores the history of gold as a monetary standard in the United States as well as conventional misconceptions during and after its implementation in US monetary policy. This book contains many of his speeches, articles, and some...

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A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru

Tags: World History

06/16/1961 • Louis Baudin

Ludwig von Mises: There is no doubt that this book, A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru, is of the highest importance for the historian, for the ethnologist, and for the economist. But in establishing this fact one has not yet fully...

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Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought

Tags: World History

06/15/1960 • Israel M. Kirzner

Israel Kirzner is an outstanding student of Mises’s, and here is his sweeping defense of the Misesian definition of the scope and meaning of economic science. He compares the Misesian view of human action with the neoclassical and classical...

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Studies in Economic Nationalism

Tags: Big Government, Global Economy, World History

01/28/1960 • Michael A. Heilperin

This work by Michael Heilperin, a giant in the area of monetary economics, might be one of the most rare - and unique - in the history of 20th century economic thought. It is one of the few books written during the mid-century period of hyper...

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Studies in the Theory of International Trade

Tags: Global Economy, World History

06/15/1955 • Jacob Viner

From the author: In this book I first endeavor to trace, in a series of studies of the contemporary source-material, the evolution of the modern “orthodox” theory of international trade, from its beginnings in the revolt against English...

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Reflections on the Failure of Socialism

Tags: Socialism, World History

03/26/1955 • Max Eastman

Max Eastman during the time from the Bolshevik Revolution through the early 1950s was one of the most famous political writers in America, known also for such literary works as The Enjoyment of Laughter. He began as a radical and, surprising...

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