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Austrian Scholars Conference 2011
The Schedule for the Austrian Scholars Conference, February 10-12, 2001, Auburn, Alabama
Category:Brochures/CatalogsReads:2,752Uploaded:03 / 09 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionThe Capitalist and and the Entrepreneur: Essays on Organizations and Markets
Peter G. Klein introduces the Austrian theory of entrepreneurship into the economic theory of the firm, in this book published by the Mises Institute.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:10,771Uploaded:05 / 06 / 2010ShareAdd to collection2009 Catalog
The 2009 book catalog of the Mises Institute, available for free on request.
Category:Brochures/CatalogsReads:9,638Uploaded:02 / 12 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionA Free-Market Monetary System and The Pretense of Knowledge
Here are two of Hayek's greatest essays in one small and beautiful volume at a very low price. It is a perfect way to introduce yourself and others to this giant of the 20th century. The book begins with Hayek's most excellent essay on money. It is also his most radical. He plainly says that central banks cannot be reformed. There can never be sound money so long as they are in charge. He calls for their complete abolition, no compromises accepted. He wants the market in charge of money from top to bottom. His words predicting crisis followed by wild swings in valuation are up to the minute. He also relates the quality of money with the recurrence of crisis, showing an excellent application of Austrian theory. Hayek was deeply influenced by Mises, and this shows here in the area of money. The second essay is "The Pretense of Knowledge," his shocking Nobel speech that explained why the very idea of government in our times is unintellectual, presumptuous, and untenable. He is as critical of socialism as he is of interventionism. He shows that the state is not capable of doing all that it is charged with doing, and why conceding it any role in social and economic management is dangerous to liberty. It was not the speech everyone expected. But it lived up to Hayek's lifelong commitment to telling truth to power. This small book is really a first in the Hayekian literature: small form, powerful words, and by the great man himself. 56 page, paperback, 2009
Category:(not categorized)Reads:11,924Uploaded:01 / 15 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionThe Left, The Right, and The State (Read in "Fullscreen")
Lew Rockwell's new manifesto is a clarion call—creative and thought-provoking on every page—for a principled liberty in our time. There are very few books in which you can open up any page and immediately find a quotable and inspiring passage that will make you think hard, laugh out loud, or see things a completely new way. This is certainly one of them.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:18,218Uploaded:12 / 31 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionHuman Action Abridged
Gérard Dréan put together this abridgement of Human Action, reducing a 900-page book to 110 pages. We upload it as an experiment. Comments are certainly welcome!
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:12,022Uploaded:12 / 24 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionInclined to Liberty: The Futile Attempt to Suppress the Human Spirit
We are surrounded every day by anti-capitalist clichés. We encounter them in casual conversation constantly among family, friends, and casual talks at the store or church, to say nothing of the media. Famed investor and businessman Louis Carabini, the founder of Monex, has been hearing this all his life. He wrote this book to answer the critics of the free market in a way that they could understand and accept. His overriding theme is that all attacks on capitalism are an attack on liberty and the human spirit. His argument is that these attacks are futile. They backfire and don’t work to achieve socially desirable ends. There are two ideological tendencies: to be inclined toward liberty (letting others live their lives in any peaceful way) or to be inclined toward mastery (permitting others to live only as another sees fit). The topics he deals with include all of the most familiar: income inequality, CEO pay, the need to redistribute wealth, the need for government to create jobs, the limits to growth, the need to tax some particular industry, the need to end inheritance, the problem of materialism and capitalism, the need for more money, the lure of democratic decision making, the problem of luxury, and many other such issues. Carabini has a patience about his prose. He explains the economics. He explains the ethics. He explains the politics. And he always returns to the central theme of the human spirit. Every attack on capitalism masks the desire to rule others through force. It is a great theme in the history of classical liberal writing but Carabini brings it up to date for our times. If you are vexed by anti-capitalists’ attacks all around you, this book provides vast amounts of intellectual ammunition to deal with it. It is also an excellent book to give someone who just can’t seem to understand the merit of economic liberty. 112 pages, paperback, 2008.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:7,561Uploaded:12 / 14 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionThe Concise Guide to Economics
To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. 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. Professor Jim Cox introduces topics ranging from entrepreneurship, wages, money, trade, and inflation to the consequences of price controls and anti-price gouging laws. If it were read alongside the daily newspaper, it would undermine most all the fallacies that appear nearly every day. Along the way, he defends the crucial role of advertising, speculators, and heroic insider traders. Thus does the book combines straightforward, common sense analysis with hard-core dedication to principle, using the fewest words possible to explain the topic clearly. And each brief chapter includes references to further reading so those who are curious to dig deeper will know where to look next.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:25,986Uploaded:11 / 21 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionThe Mystery of Banking, by Murray Rothbard
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 expositional clarity--in its history and theory--is essentially unrivaled. Most notably, he uses the T account method of explaining the relationship between deposits and loans, showing the inherent instability of fractional reserve banking and how it sets the stage for centralization, inflation, and the boost-bust cycle. But there is more here. It is an explanation of money's origins and its meaning in the free market. The abstract theory is here but always with real application in history and in modern banking practice. Never does a paragraph go by without an example drawn from his massive knowledge of the subject.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:18,391Uploaded:10 / 31 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionThe Bastiat Collection, Volume 2
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 emotionally thrilling moment to finally offer to the general public.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:7,426Uploaded:10 / 27 / 2008ShareAdd to collection
