The Free Market Reader: Essays in the Economics of Liberty

Business & Money

Economics

Ludwig von Mises Institute

The Austrian tradition began formally with Carl Menger's 1871 work Principles of Economics. But its roots stretch back to the late-scholastic period, when philosophers first began to think systematically about the relationship between human choice and material resources. This collection presents ideas from the full sweep of this intellectual history, highlighting 15 thinkers who made the greatest contribution to advancing the Austrian School of economics. These original essays are written by top Austrians who explain the Austrian view of property, markets, prices, competition, entrepreneurship, business cycles, and government policy. Contributors include Murray Rothbard, Israel Kirzner, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, Jeffrey Herbener, Peter Klein, Mark Thornton, Jesus Huerta de Soto, Larry Sechrest, John Egger, Roger Garrison, Shawn Ritenour, Thomas DiLorenzo, and Jeffrey Tucker. Economists covered are de Mariana, Cantillon, Turgot, Say, Bastiat, Menger, Wicksteed, Boehm-Bawerk, Fetter, Mises, Hazlitt, Hayek, Hutt, Roepke, and Rothbard This book has been such a successful introductory text that it is the primary required reading for students attending the Mises University. It provides an opportunity to discover the main ideas of the School through the lives and works of its primary expositors. 
ISBN 0-945466-04-8 258 pgs.

15 Great Austrian Economists

History

Holcombe

Randall G.

Europe

Applied Austrian economics doesn't get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history. 
The Mises Institute edition features, along with a new introduction by historian Paul Johnson, top-quality paper and bindings, in line with the standard set by The Scholars Edition of Human Action. 
Since it first appeared in 1963, it has been the definitive treatment of the causes of the depression. The book remains canonical today because the debate is still very alive. 
Rothbard opens with a theoretical treatment of business cycle theory, showing how an expansive monetary policy generates imbalances between investment and consumption. He proceeds to examine the Fed's policies of the 1920s, demonstrating that it was quite inflationary even if the effects did not show up in the price of goods and services. He showed that the stock market correction was merely one symptom of the investment boom that led inevitably to a bust. 
The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle, which in turn was generated by government intervention in the economy. Had the book appeared in the 1940s, it might have spared the world much grief. Even so, its appearance in 1963 meant that free-market advocates had their first full-scale treatment of this crucial subject. The damage to the intellectual world inflicted by Keynesian- and socialist-style treatments would be limited from that day forward.

America's Great Depression

MURRAY N. ROTHBARD

Edited by Richard M. EbelingThis volume might be called the Mises Reader, for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like "Observations on the Cooperative Movement," have not been published previously. Others, like "The Idea of Liberty Is Western," have already made their mark on intellectual history.Brought together by Mrs. Mises after her husband's death, and edited with an introduction by Richard Ebeling, this volume fills an important gap in providing an overview of Ludwig von Mises's best academic work. For that reason, this book is already widely used in graduate courses and seminars on the resurgence of the Austrian School.

Money, Method, and the Market Process: Essays by Ludwig von Mises

VON MISES, LUDWIG

This collection of short, entertaining, and educational articles exposes how government interference with the economy violates individual liberty, leads to inefficiencies, and rewards special interests. This collection appeared in 1991 and it holds up very well. Some people swear that this is one of the best collections ever printed by the Mises Institute.An excellent introduction to the Mises Institute way of understanding the world. It's not wonder that Roy Childs wrote of this book: "The great virtue of the volume is the excellent interaction between first principles and current events.... rational, zippy, to the point, informative with facts and figures, and based soundly on the first principles of liberty and the free market.... you can take your time reading them, using them as a 'bed book' that you can dip into at will, and learn a lot of information in a short time. And the book sizzles."The Economics of Liberty contributors include: Murray Rothbard, Walter Block, David Gordon, Robert Higgs, and Tom Bethell.

The Economics of Liberty

Politics & Social Sciences

Rockwell Jr., Llewellyn H.

Politics & Government

This anthology contains seminal essays on the ideal monetary system. From Sennholz's discussion of Mengerian monetary theory to Ron Paul's espousal of a political agenda that champions a gold standard, readers will find that this book serves a dual role--It is both an introduction to Austrian monetary theory and a guide to important events in monetary history.
Be sure to add this edition featuring essays by some of today's foremost Austrian thinkers to your collection!
The book's contents include:Introduction (Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar (Murray N. Rothbard)The Monetary Writings of Carl Menger (Hans F. Sennholz)Ludwig von Mises and the Gold Standard (Richard M. Ebeling)The Costs of a Gold Standard (Roger W. Garrison)Gold and the International Monetary System: The Contribution of Michael Heilperin (Joseph T. Salerno)Free Banking and the Gold Standard (Lawrence H. White)The Political and Economic Agenda for a Real Gold Standard (Ron Paul)ISBN 0-945466-11-0 147 pp. (pb)

The Gold Standard

Requiem for Marx by Yuri N. Maltsev (Paperback - Jun 1993)

Requiem for Marx

68 page pamphlet by David Gordon, published in 1993 by the Ludwig Von Mises Institute in Auburn, AL. SHIPS IMMEDIATELY!

The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics

Gordon, David

This bibliography contains more than 6,000 entries, with books annotated by Murray N. Rothbard, in a near-complete listing of articles by this Austrian journalist. It identifies for the first time unsigned editorials in the New York Times (1934-1946) which were actually written by Hazlitt, and reveals that he had a larger impact on our nation's intellectual life than anyone has yet realized.
The contents of this work include:Introduction (Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)Notes from the Compiler (Jeffrey A. Tucker)Books (Annotations by Murray N. Rothbard)Chapters in Books, Introductions, and Short MonographsArticles and EditorialsISBN 0945466161 158 pp.

Henry Hazlitt: A Giant of Liberty

The most powerful case against the American central bank ever written. This work begins with a mini-treatment of money and banking theory, and then plunges right in with the real history of the Federal Reserve System. Rothbard covers the struggle between competing elites and how they converged with the Fed. Rothbard calls for the abolition of the central bank and a restoration of the gold standard. His popular treatment incorporates the best and most up-to-date scholarship on the Fed's origins and effects.

The Case Against the Fed

Rothbard, Murray N.

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