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Subject: State-Theory: 86 records

Planned Chaos

Ludwig von Mises Updated 9/29/2014

This new edition (completely reset) of Planned Chaos features a new introduction by Chris Westley of Jacksonville State University. The introduction brings this classic up to date - not that it has ever fallen out of date or ever will. The title com...
Anatomy of the State

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/30/2014

This gives a succinct account of Rothbard’s view of the state. Following Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock, Rothbard regards the state as a predatory entity. It does not produce anything but rather steals resources from those engaged in...
Our Enemy, The State

Albert Jay Nock Updated 11/26/2013

What does one need to know about politics? In some ways, Nock has summed it all up in this astonishing book, the influence of which has grown every year since its publication. The Mises Institute has long hoped for an opportunity to produce a...
On Doing the Right Thing

Albert Jay Nock Updated 6/20/2013

This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his "Anarchist's Progress," "Thoughts on Revolution," "The Decline of Conversation," and other classics by this great American...
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Albert Jay Nock Updated 7/19/2012

Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of soci...
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...
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...
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...
Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Updated 12/9/2011

Sometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the idea was always vague. In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political power a...
Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard

Walter Block (ed.) Updated 12/6/2011

In 1986, a remarkable party was held on Murray Rothbard's sixtieth birthday, and papers written in his honor were presented. Two years later the book was released. It contained many wonderful essays--both scholarly and humorous--on his work and l...
Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/5/2011

What can government do to enhance social and economic well being? Nothing, says Murray N. Rothbard. Power and Market contains the proof. It will inoculate the reader against even the slightest temptation to invoke the state as a solution to any socia...
One Is a Crowd

Frank Chodorov Updated 9/15/2011

This is a treasure: One Is a Crowd. It collects Frank Chodorov's most profound essays on the topic of individualism, many of which have otherwise been unjustly lost to history. The reader will be riveted by his biographical essay on the meanin...
The Production of Security

Gustave de Molinari Updated 6/27/2011

The introduction to this stunning work is by Murray Rothbard, who calls French radical Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) the great innovator in the market provision of security. Indeed, he might be regarded as the first proponent of what is called anar...
The Free Man's Library

Henry Hazlitt Updated 6/25/2011

Henry Hazlitt did an incredible thing with this book. He created in a mere 180 pages an anthology of short reviews of 550 books on economics and politics, old and new, from the point of view of an Austro-libertarian. Hazlitt wrote it because he bel...
Snoring as a Fine Art, and Twelve Other Essays

Albert Jay Nock Updated 6/2/2011

Here is that passage that explains why Albert Jay Nock called his book Snoring as a Fine Art: "Snoring should be regarded as a fine art and respected accordingly. If this be admitted, I might suggest further that our civilization does not s...
Myth of National Defense, The: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Updated 5/13/2011

The libertarian idea of society without a state appeals to many people, but, however enticing the idea, it is often dismissed as utopian. How could an anarchist society defend itself against large, centralized states? Defense, it has been alleged,...
The Future

Edward Wayne Younkins Updated 5/11/2011

Edward Wayne Younkins Capitalism & Commerce, ch. 29: "The Future" Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise. Thanks to David Schatz....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 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...
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...
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 6/1/2010

Rothbard vs. the Crazies All evidence points to the superiority of the libertarian ideal—private property, capitalism, international trade, laissez-faire—but something is keeping the world from embracing it. That something is wr...
Nation, State, and Economy

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/28/2010

This was Mises's second book. It was written following his military service in World War I. It is also his first book that dealt with political themes--and began Mises's full-scale launch into the fight against collectivism that would be a th...
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/25/2010

Ludwig von Mises’s Socialism is the most important critical examination of socialism ever written. Socialism is most famous for Mises’s penetrating economic calculation argument. The book contains much more however. Mises not only shows the imposs...
The Rise and Fall of Society

Frank Chodorov Updated 5/15/2010

Frank Chodorov adored the work of Albert Jay Nock, particularly Nock's writings on the State. And so Chodorov set out to do something implausible: to rework the Nock book in his own style. Rothbard wrote of this book: "Frank's...
The Market for Liberty

Morris and Linda Tannehill Updated 5/14/2010

Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and labored discipline. But other classics are written in a white heat during the moment of discovery, with prose that shines forth like the sun pouring into the window of a time...
The Discovery of Freedom

Rose Wilder Lane Updated 5/14/2010

With new forewords by Roger Lea MacBride and Hans F. Sennholz What an American original was Rose Wilder Lane! What a treasure! She lived from 1886 until 1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent collaborator on t...
1. The Prostitute

Walter Block Updated 10/18/2009

1. The Prostitute Walter Block Defending the Undefendable...
The State, The Enemy

Sir Ernest Benn Updated 6/5/2009

Ernest Benn The State, The Enemy...
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of Total State and Total War

Ludwig von Mises Updated 5/27/2009

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...
Collectivism: A False Utopia

William Henry Chamberlin Updated 4/15/2008

William Henry Chamberlain Collectivism: A False Utopia (1937)...
God of the Machine

Isabel Paterson Updated 11/6/2007

Isabel Paterson The God of the Machine...
Society Without Coercion

Jarret B. Wollstein Updated 7/10/2007

Jarret B. Wollstein Society Without Coercion...
The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution

John T. Flynn Updated 2/1/2007

John T. Flynn (1949) The Road Ahead...
"Felix Morley: An Old-Fashioned Republican Critic of Statism and Interventionism"

Joseph R. Stromberg Updated 1/15/2007

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"William Graham Sumner: Critic of Progressive Liberalism"

Jonathan Marshall Updated 1/15/2007

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"Empire or Liberty: The Anti-federalists and Foreign Policy, 1787-1788"

Jonathan Marshall Updated 1/15/2007

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"Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Origins of the Welfare State in America"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

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"Political Unification: A Generalized Progression Theorem"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Role of State Monopoly Capitalism in the American Empire"

Joseph R. Stromberg Updated 1/15/2007

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"A Plain Folk Perspective on Reconstruction, State-Building, Ideology, and Economic Spoils"

Joseph R. Stromberg Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Impossibility of the State"

Leonard Brewster Updated 1/15/2007

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"Douglass C. North and Non-Marxist Institutional Determinism"

Joseph R. Stromberg Updated 1/15/2007

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"Sovereignty, International Law, and the Triumph of Anglo-American Cunning"

Joseph R. Stromberg Updated 1/15/2007

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"Toward Meta-Politics"

Leo Zailbert Updated 1/15/2007

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