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Will Dollars Save the World?

Henry Hazlitt Updated 2/24/2012

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 argument...
Aspects of the Pathology of Money

Michael A. Heilperin Updated 2/20/2012

Professor Heilperin was the outstanding monetary theorist before and after the Second World War who explained the inflation dangers associated with monetary nationalism, and called for a new international monetary system based on gold: not a gold exc...
The Common Sense of Political Economy, Volume 1

Philip H. Wicksteed Updated 2/10/2012

Phillip H. Wicksteed The Common Sense of Political Economy, vol. 1...
New Directions in Austrian Economics

Louis M. Spadaro, (ed.) Updated 2/6/2012

This collection first appeared in the midst of the American Austrian revival, and its insights are constantly culled by modern students. In it, Austrian economists examine technical aspects of money, interest, capital and business cycles, and propert...
Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/30/2012

"A true masterpiece!" Bettina Bien Greaves "This masterpiece on the life of Mises is a great achievement! Its contents and scope surpass all economic biographies." Jesus Huerta de Soto "The first 300 pages of this big boo...
The Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest

Jeffrey M. Herbener Updated 1/25/2012

It’s about time. Really! An entire book fleshing out the pure time-preference theory of interest has finally been assembled. The present crop of Keynesians play with interest rates believing they can create prosperity without a sound theoretical...
The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914

Robert Higgs Updated 1/25/2012

The Gilded Age, lasting from 1865 to World War I, was an era of economic growth never before seen in the history of the world. The standard of living of the modern age was born during this time of phenomenal transition. Lives lengthen. Wealth explode...
Frederic Bastiat: A Man Alone

George Charles Roche III Updated 1/24/2012

Bastiat struggled his entire life to teach economic truths to every living person. His legacy is monumental and speaks to us today as clearly as it did France in the 19th century. He would certainly be thrilled by this biography of his life by...
The Free Market Reader

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (ed.) Updated 1/19/2012

Stephan Kinsella says that he has "highly recommended this book for years as one of the best introductions to libertarian/free market thought." Enrico Peppe says it is "straightforward, logical, and fun." Thank goodness it is...
The Freeman Book

Albert Jay Nock Updated 1/17/2012

Yes, that's right: The Freeman. This was the original, as edited by Albert Jay Nock in the early 1920s. It was radical, far-reaching, topical, and bracing in every way. Here we have a collection of what Nock himself considered to be the best of t...
Austrian Macroeconomics: A Diagrammatical Exposition

Roger W. Garrison Updated 1/17/2012

When Murray Rothbard laid eyes on this classic monograph, he cheered. Here we have a graphical presentation that explains the Austrian view of macroeconomics in contrast to the simple and even simple-minded approach of the Keynesian aggregates. The...
Bagels, Barry Bonds, and Rotten Politicians

Burton Blumert Updated 1/17/2012

Burton Blumert was an entrepreneur who knew not only all that there is to know about precious metals but also about politics and economics. He offers his wide-ranging insights in this funny, charming, and also learned collection of essays from many y...
The Wild Wheel

Garet Garrett Updated 1/17/2012

No one, but no one, tells the story of the Ford Motor Company like Garet Garrett. He loved machines and technology, and the markets that create and distribute them. He loved the car and its transforming effect on society. And he lived through it all...
The Philosophy of Ownership

Robert LeFevre Updated 1/13/2012

The significance of property ownership has rarely been fully appreciated, writes Robert LeFevre. He proceeds to present the entire libertarian case for private ownership, with his characteristic clarity of exposition. He makes what is a radically ha...
The Return to Protection

William Smart Updated 1/13/2012

William Smart was the outstanding Austrian in England during his generation, a leading advocate of the marginalist school. But he was more than that: he was a dedicated champion of laissez-faire trade policy in the tradition of Cobden and Bright. He...
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/12/2012

Ridiculously low price! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austrian...
Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought

Israel M. Kirzner Updated 1/12/2012

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 schoo...
What You Should Know About Inflation

Henry Hazlitt Updated 1/11/2012

The book's title—What You Should Know About Inflation—only hints at the extent of the issues that Hazlitt addresses. He presents the Austrian theory of money in the clearest possible terms, and contrasts it with the fallacies...
Persuasion, Vol. 2., No. 6

Joan Kennedy Taylor Updated 1/10/2012

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Persuasion Vol.2, No. 5

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Persuasion, Vol. 5, No. 4

Joan Kennedy Taylor Updated 1/10/2012

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 4

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Persuasion, Vol. 5, No. 3

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 3

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Persuasion, Vol. 5, No. 2

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 2

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The Freeman June 1953

John Chamberlain Updated 1/10/2012

John Chamberlain The Freeman June 1953...
Crises and Cycles

Wilhelm Röpke Updated 1/10/2012

It's hard to say what is the most rare, most hard to find, most buried important book, in the history of the Austrian School. But this splendid and critically important treatise would certainly be among the nominees. Until this edition, this...
Ludwig von Mises's Letter to Rand on Atlas Shrugged

George Reisman Updated 1/10/2012

George Reisman Mises to Rand re Atlas.max...
International Economic Disintegration

Wilhelm Röpke Updated 1/9/2012

Röpke wrote this book in the late 30s, and it was published in 1942. He explains how the world unraveled the 1930s from a combination of protectionism and monetary destruction. And while his analysis is robust, he also relays what seems to be an...
Songs of the Mises-Kreis (Complete Collection)

Mises Institute Updated 1/6/2012

Here is the book that allows you to sing like Mises and the gang, with all verses for the songs we've been able to reconstruct, and complete piano accompaniments. From 1920 until 1934, Ludwig von Mises conducted a fortnightly private seminar...
The Value of Money

Benjamin Anderson Updated 1/6/2012

Benjamin Anderson, American Austrian, was among a handful of economists, led by Ludwig von Mises in his pioneering work The Theory of Money and Credit in 1912, who set out to integrate monetary theory into a general theory of value. Anderson devot...
International Order and Economic Integration

Wilhelm Röpke Updated 1/3/2012

Some of Röpke's best work has remained long out of print, this book among them. With great sincerity and passion he explains how the old liberals of his generation came to reject war came to reject war as a first principle and then reject so...
Labor Policy of the Free Society, The

Sylvester Petro Updated 1/2/2012

Professor Petro is one of the giants of the Austrian tradition, and he applied his talents to a particular area of specialization: labor policy. This 1957 book covers three main areas: US labor law and experience, the Austrian theory of labor/capital...
The Free Market and Its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/31/2011

This is a "new" book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a w...
The Free Market and Its Enemy

Leonard E. Read Updated 12/31/2011

Leonard E. Read The Free Market and Its Enemy...
Critique of Interventionism, A

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/30/2011

In the sequence of Mises's books concerning policy, this book followed Socialism, and was the first to present a new theory of interventionism. In Mises's view, interventionism is an inherently unstable policy because it creates new disloc...
An Introduction to the Theory of Value

William Smart Updated 12/30/2011

It is astonishing that a book of this quality would have been completely lost to history. It was the first to introduce the core ideas of the Menger branch of Marginalist thought to English readers. The first edition appeared in 1891. It appeared in...
How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men and Women Told by Themselves

Orison Swett Marden Updated 12/29/2011

There is a beautiful romance in this book, a romance with achievement in an age when achievement was valued. It can happen again, and a good first step is to study the lives and values of the greats of the last century to learn how and why. The Gi...
The Theory of Collective Bargaining

William H. Hutt Updated 12/26/2011

In 1930, W.H. Hutt demonstrated several spectacular points: labor unions cannot lift wages overall; their earnings come at the expense of the consumer; their effect is to cartelize business and reduce free competition to the detriment of everyone. He...
The Economics of the Colour Bar

William H. Hutt Updated 12/23/2011

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 Sou...
My Years with Ludwig von Mises

Margit von Mises Updated 12/22/2011

A moving account of her life with "Lu," from their first days in Vienna to his death in New York in 1973. The reader learns that Mises was a warm and gentle husband, in addition to being a great mind. The author reports interesting anecdote...
Antitrust: The Case for Repeal

Dominick Armentano Updated 12/21/2011

This 100-page tour de force rips the intellectual cover off antitrust regulation to reveal it for what it is: a bludgeon used by businesses against their competitors. Unlike some critics, Professor Armentano carries the logic of his analysis to fulle...
Human Action

Ludwig von Mises Updated 12/20/2011

The masterpiece first appeared in German in 1940 and then disappeared, only to reappear in English in 1949. It was a sensation, the largest and most scientific defense of human freedom ever published. And now, in 2010, the seemingly impossible has h...
The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Updated 12/20/2011

This exceeding rare book is by one of the great men of the 20th century. Written soon after his immigration to the United States, he signed the book "Francis Stuart Campbell" because he was a refugee from Austria and didn't want to enda...
The Conquest of Poverty

Henry Hazlitt Updated 12/19/2011

Long before Charles Murray took on the topic, Henry Hazlitt wrote an outstanding book on poverty that not only provided an empirical examination of the problem but also presented a rigorous theory for understanding the relationship between poverty an...
God's Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times

John T. Flynn Updated 12/16/2011

In 1932, John T. Flynn had begun to rethink his old-style "progressivism" to develop intellectually into a defender of markets as against the regimentation of government management. A first product of these steps is this classic and extraor...
Banking and the Business Cycle

Chester A. Phillips Updated 12/14/2011

This rare study by C.A. Phillips, together with T.F. McManus and R.W. Nelson, appeared in 1937 as an Austrian-style analysis of the stock market crash and the great depression that followed. It explores the many theories tossed about at the time, an...
Essentials of Economics

Faustino Ballvé Updated 12/13/2011

A brief Survey of Principles and Policies Faustino Ballvé was a remarkable thinker and economist, educated in Spain and England and teaching and practicing law in Mexico City. He was here when Ludwig von Mises came to speak on a lecture tour....
Liberalismo e Anarcocapitalismo: La Scuola Austriaca di Economia

Dario Antiseri Updated 12/13/2011

Editors: Dario Antiseri, Enzo Di Nuoscio, Francesco Di Iorio (eds) http://www.nuovaciviltadellemacchine.it/...