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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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Freedom Under Siege
Ron Paul Updated 4/8/2011
Here is Ron Paul's political manifesto, a courageous book on civil liberties and the rights of Americans that are relentlessly under assault from government. It was written in 1987, on the 200th anniversary of the Constitution, and is back in pri... -
Economic Science and the Austrian Method
Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 4/8/2011
A definitive defense of the methodological foundations of Austrian economics. Hoppe sets the praxeological view (economics as a purely deductive science) against positivism, while taking the critics of the Austrian approach head on. Hans-Hermann H... -
Gold, Peace, and Prosperity
Ron Paul Updated 4/7/2011
Revised Pocket Edition! The second edition of Gold, Peace, and Prosperity is just 4.25" x .4" x 7 " in size. Truly portable and available at volume discounts. The book has been newly type set and all images updated. This is the perfe... -
In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918-1938
Butler Shaffer Updated 4/5/2011
This extremely important study by Butler Shaffer—professor of law and economist—will change the way you think of the relationship between the state and business. It makes a deep inquiry into the attitudes of business leaders towar... -
The New Deal in Old Rome
H. J. Haskell Updated 4/5/2011
How Government in the Ancient World Tried to Deal with Modern Problems What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. H.J. Haskell was a journalist with a huge background in ancient history, and here he does... -
The Mainspring of Human Progress
Henry Grady Weaver Updated 4/4/2011
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 eruditio... -
Free Markets, Property Rights and Climate Change: How to Privatize Climate Policy
Graham Dawson Updated 4/1/2011
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Response to Wisniewski on Abortion, Round Two
Walter Block Updated 4/1/2011
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The Economic Nobel Prize
Nikolay Gertchev Updated 4/1/2011
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Truth in Philosophy
Tibor R. Machan Updated 3/31/2011
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The Principles of Economics, With Applications to Practical Problems
Frank A. Fetter Updated 3/31/2011
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Century of War, A
John V. Denson Updated 3/31/2011
The horrors of the twentieth century could hardly have been predicted in the nineteenth century, which saw the eighteenth century end with the American Revolution bringing about the creation of the first classical liberal government in history. The t... -
Well-Being and Objectivity
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski Updated 3/30/2011
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Response to Block on Abortion, Round Three
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski Updated 3/30/2011
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Defending the Undefendable
Walter Block Updated 3/30/2011
Professor Block's book is in a new edition from the Mises Institute, completely reset and beautifully laid out in an edition worthy of its contents. It is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial economi... -
Persuasion, Vol. 5, No. 1
Persuasion Updated 3/30/2011
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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 11
Persuasion Updated 3/30/2011
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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 12
Persuasion Updated 3/30/2011
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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 7
Persuasion Updated 3/30/2011
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Persuasion, Vol. 3, No. 2
Persuasion Updated 3/30/2011
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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 12
Persuasion Updated 3/30/2011
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Unity and Integration in Ayn Rand’s <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>
Edward Wayne Younkins Updated 3/25/2011
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Review of Kosanke’s <i>Instead of Politics</i>
Don Stacy Updated 3/23/2011
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Business and Economic Change
Matt McCaffrey Updated 3/23/2011
Sponsored by Anastasia Thiele. Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute on Friday, 19 November 2010. [29:46]... -
Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, A
Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 3/23/2011
New 2nd Edition w/ new Intro by Hans Hoppe Here is Hans Hoppe's first treatise in English - actually his first book in English - and the one that put him on the map as a social thinker and economist to watch. He argued that there are only two pos... -
The Betrayal of the American Right
Murray N. Rothbard Updated 3/23/2011
Rothbard identifies a movement he calls the “Old Right.” This was a libertarian movement that included Albert Jay Nock, H. L. Mencken, and John T. Flynn. It was in part a reaction to American entry into World War I, and this group joined with revisio... -
Chaos Theory
Robert P. Murphy Updated 3/18/2011
Among the most advanced topics in the literature in the Austro-libertarian milieu is that which deals with the workings of the fully free society, that is, the society with no state, or anarcho-capitalism. Robert Murphy deals with this head on, and m... -
Against Intellectual Property
Stephan Kinsella Updated 3/14/2011
Would a libertarian society recognize patents as legitimate? What about copyright? In Against Intellectual Property, Stephan Kinsella, a patent attorney of many years’ experience, offers his response to these questions. Kinsella is altogeth... -
The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions
Eugen-Maria Schulak Updated 3/14/2011
The Austrian School is in the news as never before. It is discussed on business pages, academic journals, and speeches by public figures. At long last, there is a brilliant and engaging guide to the history, ideas, and institutions of the Austria... -
Out of Step
Frank Chodorov Updated 3/11/2011
Frank Chodorov was a journalist of the Old Right with an extraordinary writing ability. He was also a top-notch intellectual figure who has been tragically neglected. This collection might be his best. Among the smashing essays here are: "Isolat... -
The Rate of Interest: Its Nature, Determination, and Relation to Economic Phenomena
Irving Fisher Updated 3/10/2011
Personal copy of Frank Knight, with liner notes and markings.... -
Plato and the Spell of the State
Patrick Tinsley Updated 3/6/2011
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Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal
Ralph Raico Updated 3/1/2011
The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in sheep's clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights. In the backdr...
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
The Free Market
The Mises Review
Austrian Economics Newsletter
Review of Austrian Economics
Mises Institute Working Papers
Libertarian Papers
