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The Driver

Garet Garrett Updated 5/14/2010

Here is a treasure in the history of the pro-capitalist novel. Garet Garrett, author of The People's Pottage, tells the story of an upstart Wall Street speculator financier, Henry Galt, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as p...
The Bastiat Collection-Volume 1

Frederic Bastiat Updated 5/14/2010

In two volumes, here is The Bastiat Collection, the main corpus of his writings in English in a restored and elegant translation that includes some of the most powerful defenses of free markets ever written. This restoration project has yielded a c...
The Bastiat Collection-Volume 2

Frederic Bastiat Updated 5/14/2010

In two volumes, here is The Bastiat Collection, the main corpus of his writings in English in a restored and elegant translation that includes some of the most powerful defenses of free markets ever written. This restoration project has yielded a c...
Die Gemeinwirtschaft

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/14/2010

Mises's book Socialism might be the bravest and most revolutionary book of the 20th century. Here is the second edition of the German original, with a beautiful cover and handsomely bound for the serious reader and collection....
The Cinder Buggy

Garet Garrett Updated 5/14/2010

Garet Garrett's fiction deals with the social impact of economic transformations. In The Driver, he deals with railroads, while Satan's Bushel examines agricultural. The Cinder Buggy, his second in the trilogy, is the longest of the three...
Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

Ron Paul Updated 5/14/2010

When the economic history of our times is written, one man will emerge as the prophet of both the financial collapse and the disasters associated with government management: Ron Paul. He alone among the political class sounded the warnings and sees t...
The Case Against the Fed

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/14/2010

Rothbard provides a succinct account of the origins of money, showing how money must originate from a commodity. Banking originated from goldsmiths, who issued warehouse receipts for gold deposited with them. From this a fractional reserve system d...
Not a Zero-Sum Game: The Paradox of Exchange

Manuel F. Ayau Updated 5/14/2010

The key to understanding how society comes to be, works without central direction, and develops into a thriving civilization can be understood through the least understood idea in economics: the division of labor through comparative advantage. It is...
The Political Economy of Juan De Mariana

John Laures, S.J. Updated 5/14/2010

Juan de Mariana (1536-1624), a major thinker of the Spanish renaissance, was a founder of economic science. This study of his writings and legacy appeared in 1928 and has not been reprinted until now. Prof. Fr. Laures explores his thinking on value,...
Mises: An Annotated Bibliography

Bettina Bien Greaves Updated 5/14/2010

An essential companion to all of Mises's works, this easy-to-use bibliography covers his life from Vienna to New York. It provides summaries of his works and detailed publication information--a real treasure trove. A special treat is the exten...
Mises: An Annotated Bibliography; 1982-1993 Update

Bettina Bien Greaves Updated 5/14/2010

The second volume of Mrs. Greaves's complete bibliography of Mises. It tells who has been writing about Mises, where, and what they had to say. Using this book is a useful way to track the progress of the Austrian School since the founding of the...
The Socialist Tradition: Moses to Lenin

Alexander Gray Updated 5/14/2010

Alexander Gray (1882–1968) was a British economist with a particularly keen appreciation of the Austrian contribution to the history of ideas. As with others of his generation, he was super well-educated and an outstanding stylist of the English lang...
Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture

Paul A. Cantor Updated 5/14/2010

The economic interpretation of literature is dominated by ideas derived from Marxism — ideas that demonize the market as the enemy of all that is good. This book, edited by well-known literary critics Paul Cantor (University of Virginia) and Stephe...
The Roots of Capitalism

John Chamberlain Updated 5/14/2010

Capitalism is a system that can stand on its own attainments, says 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 the...
Nationalökonomie: Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/14/2010

Here is the German original of what later became Human Action. It was published first in 1940 after years in exile in Geneva. At last this masterpiece is avaiable again, in a gorgeously bound hardback....
The Transformation of the American Right

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/12/2010

Murray N. Rothbard The Transformation of the American Right Acrobat Distiller 7.0 (Windows)...
The Present State of Austrian Economics

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/12/2010

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The Myth of Neutral Taxation

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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The Myth of Efficiency

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

Murray Rothbard The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device...
The Development of the Misesian Theory of Interventionism

Don Lavoie Updated 5/11/2010

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The Case Against the Flat Tax

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Statistics: Achilles' Heel of Government

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Single Tax: Economic and Moral Implications, The" and "Reply to Georgist Criticisms, A

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Single Tax: Economic and Moral Implications, The

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Protectionism and the Destruction of Prosperity

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Praxeology: Reply to Mr. Schuller.

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

Lionell Robbins The Nature and Significance of Economic Science (1932) First Edition...
Praxeology, Value Judgments, and Public Policy

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Politics of Political Economists: Comment, The

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Politics of Political Economists, The

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Myth and Truth about Libertarianism

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Mises's Human Action: Comment

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

Lionell Robbins The Nature and Significance of Economic Science (1932) First Edition...
Memorandum on Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism (1957)

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Ludwig von Mises and the Paradigm for Our Age

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

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Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

Murray N. Rothbard Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution...
Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

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Ethics and Capitalism, Part I, Catholicism

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

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Defense of Extreme Apriorism, In

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

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Defense of 'Extreme Apriorism, In

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

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A Note on Burke's Vindication of the Natural Society

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

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Austrian Theory of Money, The

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

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Austrian Definitions of the Supply of Money

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

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Essays on Freedom and Power

Lord Acton Updated 5/10/2010

Freedom and Power collects Lord Acton's most important writings on a theme that would define his reputation for more than a century: the corruptions of power. In addition, the reader learns from his love of liberty as the great creative force in...
Elementary Lessons in Logic

W. Stanley Jevons Updated 5/10/2010

Henry Hazlitt strongly recommended this book for all students of the social sciences. It had a formative influence on his life. In fact, it is the book that taught him how to think. And not only Hazlitt. William Stanley Jevons's book was the sem...
The Economics of Alfred Marshall

H. J. Davenport Updated 5/9/2010

Ludwig von Mises Omnipotent Government...
The TVA Idea

Dean Russell Updated 5/9/2010

Dean Russell The TVA Idea...
Can We Control the Boom?

Fritz Machlup Updated 5/5/2010

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Great French Writers: Turgot

Leon Say Updated 4/30/2010

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