CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2006 — 408 p. — ISBN10: 1479133876; ISBN13: 978-1479133871. Walter Block ranks among the most prolific and provocative libertarian thinkers in human history. This volume fills an important gap in his corpus of writing: a series of accessible articles on cutting edge topics. His research and writing on roads, education, labor,...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2006. — 408 p. — ISBN10: 1479133876; ISBN13: 978-1479133871. Walter Block ranks among the most prolific and provocative libertarian thinkers in human history. This volume fills an important gap in his corpus of writing: a series of accessible articles on cutting edge topics. His research and writing on roads, education, labor,...
Auborn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010 — 512 p. — ISBN10: 1933550813; ISBN13: 978-1933550817. Walter Block has been writing on the economics of discrimination — and in defense of discrimination, rightly understood — for more than 30 years. This large hardcover collects nearly all of this writing to present a radical alternative to the mainstream view. His thesis is that...
Auborn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010 — 512 p. — ISBN10: 1933550813; ISBN13: 978-1933550817. Walter Block has been writing on the economics of discrimination — and in defense of discrimination, rightly understood — for more than 30 years. This large hardcover collects nearly all of this writing to present a radical alternative to the mainstream view. His thesis is that...
Auborn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2014. — 220 p. — ISBN10: 1610165950; ISBN13: 978-1610165952. Walter Block has for decades been one of the most effective and indefatigable defenders of libertarianism. One feature in his writing stands out, from his classic Defending the Undefendable to the present. He consistently applies the principles of libertarianism to every...
Auborn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2014. — 220 p. — ISBN10: 1610165950; ISBN13: 978-1610165952. Walter Block has for decades been one of the most effective and indefatigable defenders of libertarianism. One feature in his writing stands out, from his classic Defending the Undefendable to the present. He consistently applies the principles of libertarianism to every...
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. — 169 p. — ISBN10: 0742542599; ISBN13: 978-0742542594. Libertarianism: For and Against offers dueling perspectives on the scope of legitimate government. Tibor R. Machan, a well-known political philosopher with libertarian convictions, argues for a minimal government devoted solely to protecting individual rights to life, liberty, and...
2. ed., 1989. This book argues the case for a society organized by private property, individual rights, and voluntary co-operation, with little or no government. David Friedman's standpoint, known as 'anarcho-capitalism', has attracted a growing following as a desirable social ideal since the first edition appeared in 1971. The second edition includes much new material. Among...
Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2015 — 144 p. — ISBN10: 1610165918; ISBN13: 978-1610165914. A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline represents nothing less than a sweeping revisionist history of mankind, in a concise and readable volume. Dr. Hoppe skillfully weaves history, sociology, ethics, and Misesian praxeology to present an alternative and highly challenging...
Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2015 — 144 p. — ISBN10: 1610165918; ISBN13: 978-1610165914. A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline represents nothing less than a sweeping revisionist history of mankind, in a concise and readable volume. Dr. Hoppe skillfully weaves history, sociology, ethics, and Misesian praxeology to present an alternative and highly challenging...
Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2014 — 70 p. — ISBN10: 1610165926; ISBN13: 978-1610165921. In this tour de force essay, Hans-Hermann Hoppe turns the standard account of historical governmental progress on its head. While the state is an evil in all its forms, monarchy is, in many ways, far less pernicious than democracy. Hoppe shows the evolution of government away from...
Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2014 — 70 p. — ISBN10: 1610165926; ISBN13: 978-1610165921. In this tour de force essay, Hans-Hermann Hoppe turns the standard account of historical governmental progress on its head. While the state is an evil in all its forms, monarchy is, in many ways, far less pernicious than democracy. Hoppe shows the evolution of government away from...
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1990. — 118 p. — ISBN10: 0865970858; ISBN13: 978-0865970854. After many years of being out of print, this classic treatise from the brilliant political philosopher De Jouvenel (1952) provides an answer to a critical question: what is morally wrong with the idea of political management of incomes? Nearly every state in the world attempts to curb...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. — 492 p. — ISBN10: 1479272329; ISBN13: 978-1479272327. What's the "American system" of economics? Most people would say it is capitalism, which thereby deserves all fault when anything goes wrong. Well, Kel Kelly responds to this myth in this fast-paced and darn-near comprehensive treatment of the truth about the free market...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010 — 492 p. — ISBN10: 1479272329; ISBN13: 978-1479272327. What's the "American system" of economics? Most people would say it is capitalism, which thereby deserves all fault when anything goes wrong. Well, Kel Kelly responds to this myth in this fast-paced and darn-near comprehensive treatment of the truth about the free market and...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008, -71 p. All libertarians favor property rights, and agree that property rights include rights in tangible resources. These resources include immovables (realty) such as land and houses, and movables such as chairs, clubs, cars, and clocks. Further, all libertarians support rights in one’s own body. Such rights may be called self-ownership as...
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012 — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1455501441. In Liberty Defined , congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliché. But do we know what it means?...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015 — 292 p. — ISBN10: 1512117277; ISBN13: 978-1512117271. A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case for a Stateless Society is an astonishingly concise, rigorous, and accessible presentation of anarcho-capitalist ideals. It covers a wide range of topics including: Money and Banking, Monopolies and Cartels, Insurance, Health Care,...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. — 56 p. — ISBN10: 147934995X; ISBN13: 978-1479349951. For many who have read this book-length essay, it marked a turning point in a new understanding. The mainstream will forever attempt to pigeonhole belief systems based on the left-right dichotomy. The right supposedly favors economic freedom plus militarism, while the left...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. — 56 p. — ISBN10: 147934995X; ISBN13: 978-1479349951. For many who have read this book-length essay, it marked a turning point in a new understanding. The mainstream will forever attempt to pigeonhole belief systems based on the left-right dichotomy. The right supposedly favors economic freedom plus militarism, while the left...
Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2015 — 128 p. — ISBN10: 1610166396; ISBN13: 978-1610166393. In this previously unpublished manuscript, found in the Rothbard Archives, Rothbard deftly turns the tables on the supporters of big government and their mandate for control of research and development in all areas of the hard sciences. What R&D should be encouraged and funded,...
Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2015. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 1610166396; ISBN13: 978-1610166393. In this previously unpublished manuscript, found in the Rothbard Archives, Rothbard deftly turns the tables on the supporters of big government and their mandate for control of research and development in all areas of the hard sciences. What R&D should be encouraged and funded,...
Auborn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006. — 1242 p. — ISBN10: 1933550023; ISBN13: 978-1933550022 The bound edition (two massive volumes, paperback) of the Libertarian Forum that serious collectors and readers only dreamed about a few years ago. Those who were lucky enough to have the complete set held onto them for dear life. After all, their value was legendary: the...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1995. - 480 p. A hefty tome by this master economist. Here he is communicating with the public about economic theory and policy. No economist has ever written so clearly about subjects usually wrapped in mystery. Even when discussing exchange rates, interest rates, and central banking, Rothbard is clear and persuasive. That's what makes this book so...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009. — 1504 p. — Scholar's Edition 2nd ed. — ISBN: 1933550279, 9781933550275 Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austrian economic theory, a reconstruction of many aspects of...
Published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama 36849-5301, 1994. 162 p. 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...
New York: New York University Press, 1998 — 336 p. — ISBN: 0814775063 First published in 1982, The Ethics of Liberty is a masterpiece of argumentation, and shockingly radical in its conclusions. Rothbard says that the very existence of the state — the entity with a monopoly privilege to invade private property — is contrary to the ethics of liberty. A society without a state is...
2nd edition. — Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010. — 170 p. Although first published 25 years ago, Murray Rothbard’s The Mystery of Banking continues to be the only book that clearly and concisely explains the modern fractional reserve banking system, its origins, and its devastating effects on the lives of every man, woman, and child. It is especially appropriate in a year that...
Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2016 — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1610166612; ISBN13: 978-1610166614 Few economists manage to produce a body of work that boasts a serious following twenty years after their deaths. Murray N. Rothbard is a rare exception. More than two decades since his passing, his influence lives on, both in the work of a new generation of social scientists, and...
Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2016 — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1610166612; ISBN13: 978-1610166614 Few economists manage to produce a body of work that boasts a serious following twenty years after their deaths. Murray N. Rothbard is a rare exception. More than two decades since his passing, his influence lives on, both in the work of a new generation of social scientists, and...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014 — 60 p. — ISBN10: 1495218139; ISBN13: 978-1495218132. What is the status of intellectual property? Are patents and copyrights legitimate in a free society? Butler Shaffer is a distinguished libertarian legal theorist who has for many years taught at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. In this monograph, he addresses an...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014 — 60 p. — ISBN10: 1495218139; ISBN13: 978-1495218132. What is the status of intellectual property? Are patents and copyrights legitimate in a free society? Butler Shaffer is a distinguished libertarian legal theorist who has for many years taught at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. In this monograph, he addresses an...
Charleston: Nabu Press, 2012 — 536 p. — ISBN10: 1279974303; ISBN13: 978-1279974308. Professor Leland B. Yeager (University of Virginia and Auburn University) is one of the giants of the generation of economists after Ludwig von Mises. He was Mises's student and translator — and has made a lifetime of contributions to policy, theory, method, ethics, and aesthetics from the point...
Charleston: Nabu Press, 2012 — 536 p. — ISBN10: 1279974303; ISBN13: 978-1279974308. Professor Leland B. Yeager (University of Virginia and Auburn University) is one of the giants of the generation of economists after Ludwig von Mises. He was Mises's student and translator — and has made a lifetime of contributions to policy, theory, method, ethics, and aesthetics from the point...
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