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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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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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America's Great Depression
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2000
The Real Deal on the New Deal
If we are talking about collectivist government privileges interfering with the sound functioning of a prosperous economy, Rothbard knows we can't start researching the Great Depression with Roosevelt's response to an economic collapse. Rather, there's not much to be ...
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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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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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Pillars of Prosperity
Ron Paul
Mises Institute, 2008
Will America hear his call for sound money?
PILLARS OF PROSPERITY
by Dr. Ron Paul
I am very happy to review the latest book from Texas congressman Ron Paul. His last book, A Foreign Policy of Freedom, consisted of speeches regarding U.S. interventions from the 1970s to the present day. Similarly, this ...
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The Mystery of Banking
Murray Rothbard
Von Mises Institute, 2008
Talk about great timing. Rothbard's extraordinary book unravels the mystery of banking: what is legitimate enterprise and what is a government-backed shell game that can't last. His explanation is clear enough for anyone to follow and yet precise and rigorous enough to be the best, textbook for college classes on the topic. This is because its ...
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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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Gold, Peace, and Prosperity
Ron Paul
Mises Institute, 2007
A Gold Standard Without State Intervention
Ron Paul's easy-reading 57-page monograph addresses the history and current condition of our money and banking system, which he argues is solely responsible for inflation. Dr. Paul, a rising star among presidential candidates, originally entered politics in the 1970s ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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