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SOCIALISM (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB)
LUDWIG VON MISES
Liberty Fund Inc., 1981
A Towering Intellectual Achievement
October 25th 1817- The Bolsheviks stage a coupe in Petrograd and overthrow the Kerensky regime. For the first time ever Marxists seize control of a major nation. It will be several years before the Bolsheviks overwhelm their opponents within Russia. However, one ...
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Rationalism in Politics and other essays
Michael Oakeshott
Liberty Fund Inc., 1991
Fine collection, headed by a fine essay.
This handsomely-bound expanded Liberty Fund edition of Michael Oakeshott's essays features some material not included in the earlier edition (notably, but not only, Oakeshott's introduction to Hobbes's _Leviathan_). But the greatest treat is still the title essay. In ...
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ANTI-CAPITALISTIC MENTALITY, THE (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB)
LUDWIG VON MISES
Liberty Fund Inc., 2006
Spectacular.
Over fifty years ago, the famous economist whose career "showed that government intervention is always destructive," penned The Anti-capitalistic Mentality. This short book marked his official venture into psychology. We should be grateful today for its insight. His ...
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EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATIONS, THE
Carroll Quigley
Liberty Fund Inc., 1979
History through a Scientist's Eyes
I am a professional historian and one-time student of Carroll Quigley. Rereading "The Evolution of Civilizations" after 40 years, I heard his voice speaking across time and felt once again the uncanny penetration of his analytical mind. I suppose that he was the most ...
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CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ECONOMICS, THE
DAVID HENDERSON
Liberty Fund Inc., 2008
Ideal and indispensable addition
Compiled, organized and edited by David R. Henderson (Research Fellow with Stanford University's Hoover Institution and an Associate Professor of Economics at the naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California), "The Concise Encyclopedia Of Economics" is a superbly ...
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LIBERALISM (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB)
LUDWIG VON MISES
Liberty Fund Inc., 2005
Excellent Introduction to Classical Liberalism
It's a shame that the liberalism von Mises espouses must be pre-classed as "classical," since the word "liberal" has come to mean precisely the opposite of what von Mises and his predecessors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries meant by the word. In today's ...
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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Ludwig von Mises
Liberty Fund Inc., 2007
Masterful - permit me to add a bit of humble insight however...
Other reviewers have posted excellent commentaries on this masterpiece of Ludwig Von Mises for which I have nothing to add. However, I will offer a humble insight into the mind of the collectivist, which we see manifested in the organized political and economic systems ...
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ENVY
HELMUT SCHOECK
Liberty Fund Inc., 1987
Insightful, thought-provoking, and eye-opening.
Envy is without a doubt the most corrosive of all human emotions, yet sociological, psychological, and anthropoligical study of its phenomenology is non-existent. How unfortunate! Enter Helmut Schoek who traces the origins of envy through cultures, philosophy, ...
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THEORY OF MONEY AND CREDIT, THE (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB)
LUDWIG VON MISES, H.E. Batson
Liberty Fund Inc., 1981
The Genesis of Modern Austrian Economics
The Theory of Money and Credit is the foundation of modern Austrian Economics. The central contribution of this book is its application of marginal utility theory to money. Mises takes a micro-analytic approach to money that differs from the Hume-Fischer-Friedman ...
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PLANNING FOR FREEDOM: LET THE MARKET SYSTEM WORK (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB)
LUDWIG VON MISES
Liberty Fund Inc., 2008
Low Cost Access to Important Ideas
Planning for Freedom is very much like two other books by Mises: Liberalism, the Classical Traditions and Bureaucracy. This book is notable for its clarity and brevity. It is a much easier read that Human Action. Anyone who wants to learn Austrian Economics would do ...
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SERVILE STATE, THE
HILAIRE BELLOC
Liberty Fund Inc., 1977
The Servile State Versus The Distributivist Society.
In this liberty classic, the Catholic intellectual Hilaire Belloc writes that the present system of capitalism is likely to give rise to something new, the servile state, because of inherent instabilities within it. Belloc defines this state as, "That arrangement of ...
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ON POWER
BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL
Liberty Fund Inc., 1993
Profound critique and analysis on nature of political power
~On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth~ chronicles the growth of political power throughout the ages and explains how the powers welded by modern Parliaments and Presidents would be the envy of medieval kings. Bertrand de Jouvenel has a colorful past and was once ...
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ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND INTERVENTIONISM (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB)
LUDWIG VON MISES
Liberty Fund Inc., 2006
A Mastermind named Mises
This book was amazing. I found all of the information to be very informative and very useful. There are many great works throughout this compilation, and it would be foolish not to add this book to a collection of masterpieces. I strongly earge all people of all ...
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BUREAUCRACY (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB)
LUDWIG VON MISES
Liberty Fund Inc., 2007
Perceptive and Concise
Bureaucracy is the clearest and most concise version of the calculation critique of socialism. This books is vastly easier to read that the original 1920 article on socialist calculation. It is far shorter and more focused than Human Action. It is also much shorter ...
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The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
Ludwig von Mises
Liberty Fund Inc., 2006
Von Mises The Rationalist
Ludwig von Mises published his first book in 1912 ("Theory of Money and Credit") and his final book - "The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science" - in 1962 (although he continued to write articles until near the end of his incredibly productive life). In "The ...
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