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What Has Government Done to Our Money? Case for the 100 Percent Gold Dollar
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2005
A book as necessary as clean air
Monetary theory is one of those subjects that (1) appeals to no one, (2) must be understood by everyone, and (3) is in fact roundly misunderstood by most of the so-called monetary experts.
What is the basis for my claim?
(1) Try talking to your friends about ...
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The Case Against the Fed
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2007
The Case Against the Fed
The Case Against the FedThis book is a good primer on the Federal Reserve and banking in general. It is not a hard read and is interesting to those who want to learn about this very important part of our economy. Anyone who has even a remote interest in this book ...
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Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market (Scholars Edition)
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2004
Praxeology for the win
'Man Economy and State' (along with the preceding 'Human Action' by Rothbard mentor Ludwig Von Mises) is a work that should be mandatory reading for every single individual. A full treatise of the Austrian Economic theory, it builds on 'Human Action' and lays out the ...
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Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles
Jesús Huerta de Soto
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006
Informed and contemporary.
The first eight chapters of this comprehensive book detail the historical failings of banks to observe the law and government's failure to implement the law with regard to the irregular deposit, and then goes on to explain how this has been beneficial for bank profits ...
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The Law
Frederick Bastiat
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007
The Law
Bastiat's Law is one of the most important documents you could ever read. It is the basis for the philosophy of liberty, and without adherence to these ideals liberty cannot last. This should be required reading in school, but once you read what this french ...
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America's Great Depression
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2000
Truer today than it was 40 years ago
We all understand that particular industries and markets may go through hard times at one point or another. But what causes an entire economy to flourish, only to contract at a later date? What causes the entire economy to misread the economic signs? What causes the ...
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Prices and Production
Hayek, F. A.
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008
Hayek was not only a leading champion of liberty in the 20th century. As this massive book reveals, he was also a great economist whose elaboration on monetary theory and the business cycle made him the leading foe of Keynesian theory and policy in the English-speaking world. Here are collected his most important works on these topics: re-typeset, ...
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The Mystery of Banking
Murray Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008
The Mystery of Banking Revealed
I just finished reading this book and found that it filled in many inconsistencies that I have noted in my mainstream economic study. The author explains clearly and concisely the origins of and money and its importance to any economic system. He proceeds to describe ...
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Bastiat Collection
Frederic Bastiat
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007
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 collection to treasure. After years of hard work and preparation, we can only report that it is an ...
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Economics for Real People
Gene Callahan
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2004
Simplify without being simplistic
Gene Callahan accomplishes the monumentally difficult task of taking what seems to be "impossible" to outsiders and makes it accessible through his use of excellent examples and word-pictures. (I'm sure the logical positivist, mathematics-based economists will despise ...
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Human Action Scholars Edition
Ludwig Von Mises
Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1998
The magnum opus of Austrian economics
~Human Action: A Treatise on Economics~ is the magnum opus of economist Ludwig von Mises, and the Austrian School of economics. Therein, Mises presents a sound case for a laissez-faire free-market, unimpeded by encroachments of the state. Based on Mises' praxeology, or ...
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Freedom Under Siege
Ron Paul
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007
A brief introduction to liberty
Freedom Under Siege offers the reader a quick glimpse of Dr. Paul's view of the prevailing attitude of the United States towards individual liberty. In it, Ron Paul makes the argument that the philosophical underpinnings of liberty have eroded during the 20th century ...
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An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (2 Vol. Set)
Murray Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006
Pre-Austrian Economic History from an Austrian Perspective
This work is a tour de force of economic thought, spanning a thousand pages and nearly two millennia.
The books thesis rests on Thomas Kuhn's theory of paradigm shifts of scientific intellectuals in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." In these two volumes, ...
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Economic Science and the Austrian Method
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2007
Austrian Methodology Defended
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949- ) is a philosopher and economist writing in the "classical" Austrian tradition, which is to say in the tradition of Mises and Rothbard. He is also one of the most creative thinkers in that tradition. (His work, Democracy: The God that ...
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The Failure of the New Economics
Henry Hazlitt
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007
Free Market Excellence
Henry Hazlitt's "The Failure of the New Economics" is an excellent discussion on the many Keynesian fallacies. Hazlitt clearly explains that the "The General Theory" by John Maynard Keynes is perhaps the most destructive book ever written and that Keynesian economics ...
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