Literature Library

The most complete online offering of the literature of the Austrian School and libertarian ideas, including books, journal articles, and other writings, sorted by author or any method you choose.

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Anatomy of the State

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/30/2014

This gives a succinct account of Rothbard’s view of the state. Following Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock, Rothbard regards the state as a predatory entity. It does not produce anything but rather steals resources from those engaged in...
War Collectivism

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/30/2014

War Collectivism: Power, Business, and the Intellectual Class in World War I More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a "war collectivism," a totally planned ec...
What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 4/16/2013

When this gem first appeared in 1963, it took the form of a small paperback designed for mass distribution. We've conjured up that spirit again with this special edition of Rothbard's primer on money and government. Innumerable economist...
Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/5/2012

This is one of Rothbard’s most important scholarly works. In the first volume, Rothbard traces the history of economics from the ancient Greeks to Adam Smith; and in the second volume, he discusses British classical economics, the French sc...
Ideas on Liberty: Essays in Honor of Paul L. Poirot

Robert G. Anderson Updated 9/26/2012

Paul Poirot is remembered by most people as the thirty-year editor of The Freeman, the monthly journal published by the Foundation for Economic Education since 1956. But Paul Poirot was much more than just an editor. Dr. Poirot was an uncompromisi...
Principles of Ethics: Anthology

Herbert Spencer Updated 8/31/2012

This professionally prepared ebook is an electronic edition of the book that is designed for reading on digital readers like Nook, Kindle, iPad, Sony Reader, and other products including iPhone and Android smart phones. The text reflows depending o...
Credit Policies of the Federal Reserve System

Charles Hardy Updated 8/21/2012

This professionally prepared ebook is an electronic edition of the book that is designed for reading on digital readers like Nook, Kindle, iPad, Sony Reader, and other products including iPhone and Android smart phones. The text reflows depending o...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 9

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/6/2012

RAE VOLUME 9 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government

Thomas J. DiLorenzo Updated 8/3/2012

Politics and thieves, coercion and regulation, fascism and the Fed, centralization and liberty, workers and unions, trade and freedom, free-market achievements and government disasters in American history—this book covers it all!...
The Wizards of Ozymandias

Butler Shaffer Updated 7/19/2012

Western Civilization--the American version in particular--is in a very turbulent and, perhaps terminal condition. The sense of civility that helps give meaning to a "civilization" is in full retreat. Butler Shaffer has, over the cour...
The Foundations of Morality

Henry Hazlitt Updated 6/28/2012

Here is Hazlitt's major philosophical work, in which he grounds a policy of private property and free markets in an ethic of classical utilitarianism, understood in the way Mises understood that term. In writing this book, Hazlitt is reviving an...
Mises on Money

Gary North Updated 6/25/2012

Before Austrian economics came on the scene, monetary theory was a hodge-podge of disjointed insights. Nobody knew how to integrate those insights into a system, much less how to integrate monetary theory with the rest of economics. Carl Menger...
The Turgot Collection: Writings, Speeches, and Letters of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

A.R.J. Turgot Updated 5/24/2012

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781) was one of the foremost classical liberals of the 18th century. In the opinion of Murray Rothbard, he was one of the greatest economists of all time, and he served with distinction under Louis XVI as...
Conceived in Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/14/2012

The new single-volume edition of Conceived in Liberty is here! After so many years of having to juggle four volumes, the Mises Institute has finally put it altogether in a single, 1,616-page book. This makes it easier to read, and makes clearer just...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 10

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 10 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 8 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 7

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 7 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 6

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 6 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 5

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 5 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 4

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 4 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 3

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 3 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 2

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 2 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 1

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 1 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Free Market Economics: A Syllabus

Bettina Bien Greaves Updated 4/20/2012

This little gem is a complete economics education for high-school age students. It provides lessons, study questions, activities, and an excellent list of readings for each topic under consideration. Bettina chose well because the readings all hold u...
Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader

Bettina Bien Greaves Updated 4/20/2012

Bettina Bien Greaves put this volume together as a one-stop primer in economics that includes the best economic writing she had run across. In some ways, the choices are brilliant. They are arranged by topic to cover the division of labor, prices, p...
Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles

Jesus Huerta de Soto Updated 4/4/2012

3rd Edition - Updated and revised. The three years since the publication of the previous English edition of Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles have seen a continuation of the economic recession process set in motion after the 2007 financial c...
Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School

Ralph Raico Updated 4/2/2012

Here is the book to learn classical liberalism from the ground up, written by the foremost historian in the Austrian tradition--Ralph Raico. Every student, scholar, and freedom fan must have a copy of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School at...
Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought (Complete, 1965-1968)

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 3/26/2012

The most influential and famous low-circulation, typewriter-typed scholarly journal of the 20th century....