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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Scholars Edition)

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Scholars Edition)

by Ludwig von Mises

This set includes 4 books in a slipcase. Mises attributes the tremendous technological progress and the consequent increase in wealth and general welfare in the last two centuries to the introduction of liberal government policies based on free-market economic teachings, creating an economic and political environment which permits individuals to pursue their respective goals in freedom and peace. Mises also... (more)

The Constitution of Liberty

by Friedrich August Von Hayek

"One of the great political works of our time, . . . the twentieth-century successor to John Stuart Mill's essay, 'On Liberty.'"—Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek "A reflective, often biting, commentary on the nature of our society and its dominant thought by one who is passionately opposed to the coercion of human beings by the arbitrary will of others, who puts liberty above welfare and is sanguine that greater welfare... (more)

15 Great Austrian Economists

by Holcombe, Randall G.

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... (more)

The Anti-capitalistic Mentality (Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig Von Mises)

The Anti-capitalistic Mentality (Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig Von Mises)

by Ludwig von Mises

In "The Anti-capitalistic Mentality", the respected economist Ludwig von Mises plainly explains the causes of the irrational fear and hatred many intellectuals and others feel for capitalism. In five concise chapters, he traces the causation of the misunderstandings and resultant fears that cause resistance to economic development and social change. He enumerates and rebuts the economic arguments against and the... (more)

BureaucracyLudwig Von Mises

Bureaucracy

by Ludwig von Mises

Professor von Mises addressed himself to a particular issue: what is the essential difference between bureaucratic management by government and market management in a system based on private ownership of the means of production? Mises does not discuss bureaus or bureaucrats, but inexorable principles of human action. He does not condemn bureaucracy, which is the appropriate technique for the conduct of government... (more)

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)

by F. A. Hayek

Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors. He labels as the "fatal... (more)

Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

by Brian Doherty

On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism-the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat-has become an extremely influential strain of thought. But while many books talk about libertarian ideas, none until now has explored the history of this uniquely American ... (more)

Planned Chaos

by Ludwig Von Mises, Ludwig von Mises

An essay on the destruction of individual liberty by totalitarian ideologies.

An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (2 Vol. Set)

An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (2 Vol. Set)

by Murray N. Rothbard

The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. They have been out of print for many years, and were previously only available at a price exceeding $200 for the set. They are at last accessible again, in beautiful hardcover, and at an affordable price. In Economic Thought Before Adam Smith, Murray Rothbard traces... (more)

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism

by Robert P. Murphy

Participating in the economy is a part of everyday life, yet much of what is commonly accepted as economic fact is wrong. Keynesian schoolteachers and the liberal media have filled the world with politically correct errors that myth-busting professor Robert Murphy sets straight. Murphy explains hot topics like outsourcing (why it's good for Americans) and zoning restrictions (why they're not). Just like the other... (more)

The Concise Guide to Economics

by Jim Cox

To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The Concise Guide To Economics is a handy, quick reference guide for those already familiar with basic economics, and a brief, compelling primer for everyone else. Jim Cox introduces topics ranging from entrepreneurship, money, and inflation to the consequences of price controls (which are bad) to price gouging (which is good). Along the... (more)

The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

by F. A. Hayek

This classic by one of the 20th century's leading libertarian thinkers has established itself beside the works of Orwell and others as a timeless meditation on the relationship between human freedom and government authority. Hayek argues that empowering government with increasing economic control leads not to utopia but to horrors such those seen in Nazi Germany.

MISES MADE EASIER A Glossary for Ludwig Von Mises' HUMAN ACTIONPercy L. Greaves

MISES MADE EASIER A Glossary for Ludwig Von Mises' HUMAN ACTION

by Ludwig von Mises, Percy L. Greaves

Shorter Classics of Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk, Vol. 1Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk

Shorter Classics of Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk, Vol. 1

by Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk

Bohm-Bawerk individual essays have been combined in Shorter Classics. This volume represents his expansion, examination, and improvement of his system. It includes the famous essay on "Karl Marx and the Close of his System," which undoubtedly is the best-known critique of Marx ever written, and four other sagacious essays: "The Austrian Economists" "Whether Legal Rights and Relationships are Economic... (more)

The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics

The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics

by Michael Shermer

Bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy—and why people are so irrational about money How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom-line financial and business decisions? Is the capitalist marketplace a sort of Darwinian organism, evolved through natural selection as the... (more)

The Causes of the Economic Crisis: And Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression

The Causes of the Economic Crisis: And Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression

by Ludwig von Mises

In the world before and after the Great Depression, there was a lone voice for sanity and freedom: Ludwig von Mises. He speaks in The Causes of the Economic Crisis , a collection of newly in print essays by Mises that have been very hard to come by, and are published for the first time in this format. Here we have the evidence that the master economist foresaw and warned against the breakdown of the German... (more)

Private Keepers of the Public InterestPaul T. Heyne

Private Keepers of the Public Interest

by Paul T. Heyne

The Rise of the Marginal Utility School, 1870-1889Richard S. Howey

The Rise of the Marginal Utility School, 1870-1889

by Richard S. Howey

The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States.

The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States.

by Fritz, MacHlup

The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States marked the beginning of the study of our postindustrial information society. Austrian-born economist Fritz Machlup had focused his research on the patent system, but he came to realize that patents were simply one part of a much bigger "knowledge economy." He then expanded the scope of his work to evaluate everything from stationery and typewriters... (more)

The Economics of Prohibition

by Mark Thornton

It is conventional wisdom that alchohol prohibition failed, but the economic reasons for this failure have never been as extensively detailed or analyzed as they are in this study by Mark Thornton.The lessons he draws apply not only to the period of alcohol prohibition but also to drug prohibition and any other government attempt to control consumption habits. The same pattern is repeated again and... (more)

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by Ludwig von Mises

by Friedrich August Von Hayek

by Holcombe, Randall G.

by Ludwig von Mises

by Ludwig von Mises

by F. A. Hayek

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by Ludwig Von Mises, Ludwig von Mises

by Murray N. Rothbard

by Robert P. Murphy

by Jim Cox

by F. A. Hayek

by Ludwig von Mises, Percy L. Greaves

by Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk

by Michael Shermer

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by Paul T. Heyne

by Richard S. Howey

by Fritz, MacHlup

by Mark Thornton