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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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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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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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Bastiat Collection Frederic Bastiat
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007
An Intellectual Father Bastiat is one of the intellectual fathers for all free-market advocates. If you still believe in individual rights, limited government, and capitalism, you should read this collection. Bastiat wrote 200 years ago, but his work is more timely than ever. He is ...
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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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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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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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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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The Case for Gold Ron Paul, Lewis Lehrman
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007
An economic history of the United States This book offers a well documented, detailed account of the history of money and banking in the United States. In it, Congressman Paul outlines why fractional-reserve banking, unenforced property rights and money not backed by hard assets cause inflation, and what the ...
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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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Human Action Scholars Edition Ludwig Von Mises
Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1998
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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Economics of Inflation (A Study of Currency Depreciation) Costantino Bresciani-Turroni
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007
Economics of Inflation: A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany
As an Austrian study of hyperinflation, this study has never been surpassed. The same is true of the detailed examination of the rise of hyperinflation in German in the interwar period: there is not anything more authoritative. It is a huge study, 466 pages, with a ...
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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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