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

Persuasion, Vol. 4, No. 6

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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Persuasion, Vol. 3, No. 6

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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Persuasion, Vol. 2, No. 1

Persuasion Updated 3/18/2011

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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...
Investment Chains Through History

Sudha R. Shenoy Updated 3/17/2011

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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 Trouble With Washington

Mises.org Updated 3/14/2011

Video version of Ron Paul's speech, "The Trouble With Washington", at the Prosperity, War & Depression seminar....
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

Stephan Kinsella lp-3-2 Mac OS X 10.6.6 Quartz PDFContext...
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...
Of Private, Common, and Public Property and the Rationale for Total Privatization

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 2/23/2011

Stephan Kinsella lp-3-1 Mac OS X 10.6.6 Quartz PDFContext...
Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar, The

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 2/18/2011

Rothbard shows how money must originate from a commodity. In an ideal system, a dollar would be a unit of weight, and paper money would operate strictly as warehouse receipts for the stock of the monetary metal. There would be no fractional reserve...
Case for Gold, The

Ron Paul Updated 2/12/2011

This is the LvMI 2nd Edition! Pocket sized 5" x 7" and with a new foreword by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Here is the revolutionary book on monetary reform - brilliant, compelling, clear, with specific reforms to do now - in an edition for...
Building Blocks for Liberty

Walter Block Updated 2/9/2011

Walter Block ranks among the most prolific and provocative libertarian thinkers in human history. This volume fills an important gap in his corpus of writing: a series of accessible articles on cutting edge topics. His research and writing on roads,...
The Concise Guide To Economics

Jim Cox Updated 2/9/2011

To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. The Concise Guide To Economicsis a handy, quick reference guide for those...
The Private Production of Defense

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 2/2/2011

Hans Hoppe takes on the most difficult subject in economic and political theory: the provision of security. He argues that the service is better provided by free markets than government, while addressing a hundred counter-arguments. Here we have an i...
The Clash of Group Interests and Other Essays

Ludwig von Mises Updated 2/2/2011

In this thrilling essay written in 1945, Mises lays out a theory of social organization in response to the Marxist critique of the free society. He explains that the Marxist view is wrong concerning its claim that there is a clash of group interests...
A Treatise on Currency and Banking

Condy Raguet Updated 1/31/2011

This remarkable hard-money treatise appeared in 1840. It is by Condy Raguet (1784-1842), a noted Pennsylvania politician and economist who worked as a merchant in several Latin American countries. He was wholly dedicated to free trade, the free marke...
Never Ask The End

Isabel Paterson Updated 1/27/2011

Isabel Paterson Never Ask the End...
The Theory of Money and Credit

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/26/2011

Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money to ever appear. It made his reputation across Europe and established him as the most important economist of his age. We t...
The American Mercury November 1936

American Mercury Updated 1/25/2011

Channing Pollack says America Doesn't Give a Damn; More Pay for College Football Stars, by John R. Tunis; Harrison Reeves on the Birth Control Industry; Donald R. Richberg on Enemies of the New Deal; Nicholas Roosevelt on Franklin Delano Roosevel...
Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/21/2011

This little essay offers something spectacular: an intellectual history of Mises's own tradition, with first person accounts of conversations with the greats. And truly, Mises turns out to have written the best single account of the origin and ea...
Liberalismus

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/20/2011

Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1927...
The American Mercury October 1937

American Mercury Updated 1/19/2011

How I Became a Fascist; The Myth of the Two-Gun Man, by Charles B. Roth; How the WPA Buys Votes, by Gordon Carroll; Albert Jay Nock on the Packing of Hugo Black; Fallacies About Your Health, by August M. Thomen; The Disarmament Hoax, by Flether Pratt...
The American Mercury August 1939

American Mercury Updated 1/19/2011

Beware the Third Termites! Eugene Lyons; Shall we Annex Texas? Owen P. White; The Headmaster Murder Mystery, by Harland Manchester; Stewart H. Holbrook on the Elegant Life of the Steel Barons; Nathan Schachner on Ethan Allen; Albert Jay Nock on Ameri...
Against Intellectual Property

Stephan Kinsella Updated 1/19/2011

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 American Mercury May 1939

American Mercury Updated 1/19/2011

Little Jack Garner; Russia's Role in Spain, by Irving Pflaum; Robert B. Hotz on the End of Liechtenstein; A Southerner Likes the North, by William Edgerton; Charles Francis Portier has Fun Among the Fundamentalists; Requiem for the League of Nati...
The American Mercury June 1939

American Mercury Updated 1/19/2011

Father Coughlin: Holy Medicine Man, by John McCarten; Germany Can't Win! by George Fielding Eliot; Robert Corey on Elliott Roosevelt, the President's Problem Child; Negroes Reject Communism, by George S. Schuyler; Education for Ward Heelers,...
The American Mercury May 1937

American Mercury Updated 1/19/2011

The Autocrat vs. the Constitution by Albert Jay Nock; Harold Lord Varney on the Red Road to War; H.W. Seaman say's we are Coronation Crazy; Sexual Freedom Today by Havelock Ellis; Robert Bryon talks about the Cost of Communism; Eugene Pharo on Mo...
The American Mercury April 1939

American Mercury Updated 1/19/2011

Our Totalitarian Liberals - Editorial; Charles A. Beard says "We're Blundering Into War;" Ernest Sutherland Bates on The Puritan Mathers; Clay Osborne identifies America's Number One Fool; Thomas Wolfe, Portrait of a Literary Critic...
The American Mercury March 1937

American Mercury Updated 1/19/2011

Gordon Carroll on the Case HIstory of a Strike; The Vanishing American Male, by Stewart H. Holbrook; Duncan Aikman on the Fad of Devil-Baiting; Albert Jay Knock on Free Speech; Book Preview: The Real Soviet Russia by Leon Trotsky; Why Canadians Dis...
The American Mercury February 1937

American Mercury Updated 1/5/2011

Russia's Private War in Spain, by Lawrence Dennis; Portrait of Walter Winchell, Henry F. Pringle; The Bogus Era of Good Feeling, by Albert Jay Nock; Oregon's Secret Love Cult, by Stewart H. Holbrook; Twenty Grand Apiece, Edward Anderson; Hors...
The American Mercury January 1943

American Mercury Updated 1/5/2011

Enough for All, by Dorothy Thompson; German Lies About Versailles, by George Creel; An Open Letter to Vice President Wallace, by Eugene Lyons; Mistakes I Saw in the Pacific, by Melvin J. Maas; Open Forum, Checklist, Book reviews, and more...
The American Mercury November 1937

American Mercury Updated 1/5/2011

The United Affront, by Ernest Boyd; Philip McKee on the High Cost of Dying; Propaganda from the White House, by Gordon Carroll; J.L. Brown on the Crime of Being a Witness; An ex-farmers says "To Hell with Farming;" The State of the Union, b...
The American Mercury September 1936

American Mercury Updated 1/5/2011

Paradise Imagined, by William H. Chamberlin; The End of Democracy, by Ralph Adams Cram; Canada Won't Go Yankee, by Stephen Leacock; The Sweetheart of the Regimenters, by Blair Bolles; Labor Speaks to Capital, by Matthew Woll; Turgenor, by Ford Ma...
The American Mercury January 1938

American Mercury Updated 1/5/2011

The Triumph of the Have-Not, H.L. Mencken; Harold Lord Varney on Radicals in Our Churches; Cohen and Corcoran: Brain Twins, by Blaire Bolles; Albert Jay Nock on What the Republicans Won't Do; John W. Thomason, Jr. on the Conquest of Pain; Open Fo...
The Economic Record October 1944

National Industrial Conference Board Updated 1/5/2011

Great Britain Goes to a Planned Economy; Lord Keynes's Preview of Bretton Woods; The Fiscal Realism of Beardsley Ruml; Garrett on Hayek's Road to Serfdom; Mind and Morals of Harold J. Laski; Collective Bargaining as a Social Evil; Philosophy...
The Economic Record July 1944

National Industrial Conference Board Updated 1/5/2011

Does American Business Want Free Enterprise?; A Kansas Manifesto; Book Review by Garet Garrett; Planned vs. Free Markets, by Mordecai Ezekial; British Ideas of the Cartel; and more...
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/5/2011

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent defec...
Politically Impossible?

William H. Hutt Updated 1/5/2011

Should economists curb their rhetoric and prescriptions based on “political realities”? Should anyone attempt to conceal the truth about state intervention for fear of not fitting into the existing political culture? Many people answer yes to...
Bureaucracy

Ludwig von Mises Updated 1/5/2011

Mises said it right here. In these pages we find the crushing critique of nearly all modern reform movements, summed up in his sweeping conclusion: "The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is...
Why Credit Deflation Is More Likely than Mass Inflation: An Austrian Overview of the Inflation Versus Deflation Debate

Vijay Boyapati Updated 12/30/2010

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The Current Evidence for Hayek’s Cultural Group Selection Theory

Brad Lowell Stone Updated 12/30/2010

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The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically

Franz Oppenheimer Updated 12/29/2010

This is the 1908 book that started it all in the 20th century, the book that kicked off a century of anti-state, pro-property writing. This was the prototype for Nock's writing, for Chodorov's work, and even the theoretical edifice that later...
The Man versus the State

Herbert Spencer Updated 12/29/2010

Henry Hazlitt says that this book is "One of the most powerful and influential arguments for limited government, laissez faire and individualism ever written." Spencer played a huge role in the history of ideas, one that contemporary soc...
The American Mercury February 1936

American Mercury Updated 12/28/2010

Senator Lester Dickson asks, "What's the Matter With Congress;" Progress Toward Collectivism, by Albert Jay Nock; Portrait of a Lifer; Reno the Naughty, by Anthony Turano; A Yankee Looks at Dixie, by Katherine F. Gerauld; S.K. Padover o...
The American Mercury March 1936

American Mercury Updated 12/28/2010

Three Years of Dr. Roosevelt, H.L. Mencken; Harald Lord Varney asks, "Are the Capitalists Asleep?"; Albert Jay Nock on the New Deal and Prohibition; Is Patriotism Necessary? by Struthers Bert; A Man-God of Japan by Sydney Greenbie; An Open...
The US Constitution and Money: Corruption and Decline

Michael S. Rozeff Updated 12/28/2010

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