Literature Library

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Literature Library: free books from the Ludwig von Mises Institute: 1843 records

Keynes, the Man

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 4/30/2011

Rothbard's dissection of the hugely influential but unusually unprincipled economist....
Review of Eagleton’s Why Marx Was Right

Morgan A. Brown Updated 4/28/2011

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Man vs. The Welfare State

Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/28/2011

In this 1969 work, Henry Hazlitt explains why politicians who promise salvation through government are dangerous. Among the essays: Instant Utopia Salvation Through Government Spending "We Owe It To Ourselves" Consequences of Dollar Deba...
Jefferson

Albert Jay Nock Updated 4/28/2011

Here is Albert Jay Nock's classic study on the life and thought of Thomas Jefferson, a book which draws out points other biographers have missed: his radicalism, his opposition to all centralized government, his attachment to liberty and property...
Country Squire in the White House

John T. Flynn Updated 4/27/2011

John T. Flynn was an early New Dealer who quickly saw what happens when power is concentrated in the executive state. He became a passionate opponent of FDR and his policies. This 1940 book is his analysis of the American presidency and the place...
The Critics of Keynesian Economics

Henry Hazlitt, ed. Updated 4/26/2011

Henry Hazlitt confronted the rise of Keynesianism in his day and put together an intellectual arsenal: the most brilliant economists of the time showing what is wrong with the system, in great detail with great rigor. With excerpts from books and art...
Liberty: A Path to Its Recovery

F.A. Harper Updated 4/25/2011

F.A. Harper was a leader in the libertarian movement from the 1950s and onward. Here is his early manifesto (1949), in which he reveals a sophisticated understanding of free markets and freedom but had not yet, as he later did, come around completely...
The Roosevelt Myth

John T. Flynn Updated 4/15/2011

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the most sainted president of the 20th century. You have to look far and wide to discover the truth about his character and policies. But as John T. Flynn noted in this landmark 1948 volume, FDR actually prolonged the Great D...
Failure of the 'New Economics'

Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/15/2011

Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. T...
Contra Copyright, Again

Wendy McElroy Updated 4/12/2011

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The Bastiat Collection

Frederic Bastiat Updated 4/11/2011

The world has always needed this: a gigantic collection of Bastiat's greatest work in a single, super-handy pocket edition, at a ridiculously affordable price. All of the best essays by this giant of liberty are here, 1000 plus pages of it, b...
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...
War, Peace, and the State

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 4/8/2011

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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 Atlas Shrugged

Edward Wayne Younkins Updated 3/25/2011

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Review of Kosanke’s Instead of Politics

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...
Persuasion, Vol. 1, No. 3

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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Persuasion, Vol.1, No. 5

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Persuasion, Vol. 3, No. 12

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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 10

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 10

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Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 9

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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Persuasion, Vol. 3, No. 9

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 9

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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Persuasion, Vol. 1, No. 2

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 8

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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Persuasion, Vol. 3, No. 7

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 7

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