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Latest post Fri, Mar 28 2008 5:09 PM by Libertas est Veritas. 6 replies.
  • Wed, Mar 26 2008 5:38 PM

    Book recommendations

    I'm starting to run out of books to read, so I'm gonna have to make a new order.  Here is what I have thus far:

    Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School (2nd edition)

    Economics in One Lesson

    Concise Guide to Economics, The

    Critique of Interventionism

    Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View

    Omnipotent Government: The Rise of Total State and Total War

    Road to Serfdom, The

    Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays, The

    Capital and Production

    Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

    Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises

    Economic Science and the Austrian Method

    Foreign Policy of Freedom, A

    I've already decided to get Human Action, Man, Economy & State, America's Great Depression. Anything else that I should get? Have I missed something essential?

    Also, does anyone know if Pillars of Prosperity is any good?

     

     

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  • Wed, Mar 26 2008 5:50 PM In reply to

    • Nitroadict
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    Re: Book recommendations

    The God of The Machine, by Isabel Paterson is a personal favorite; I'll probably end up checking the first two on your list at some point.

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  • Wed, Mar 26 2008 7:17 PM In reply to

    Re: Book recommendations

    Be sure to check out the reading lists I put up in the Economics and politics subfora.

     

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  • Thu, Mar 27 2008 10:37 AM In reply to

    • Remnant
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    Re: Book recommendations

     

    I would recommend:

    "For a New Liberty" - Murry Rothbard

    What has Government done to our money?" - Murry Rothbard

    "Democracy, the God that Failed" - Hans Herman Hoppe

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  • Fri, Mar 28 2008 3:56 PM In reply to

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    Re: Book recommendations

    Original page with links at bkmarcus.com/blog: 10+10

    Top Ten Free Reads

    Jeffrey Tucker's Austrian Top Ten


         1. Principles of Economics, Menger
         2. Human Action, Mises
         3. Man, Economy, State, Rothbard
         4. Study Guide to MES, Murphy
         5. Theory and History, Mises
         6. Epistemological Problems, Mises
         7. Economic Policy, Mises
         8. America's Great Depression, Rothbard
         9. Positive Theory of Capital, Boehm-Bawkerk
        10. Money, Bank Credit, Economic Cycles, de Soto


    Justin Ptak's "Natural Order"* Top Ten


         1. Police, Law, and the Courts - Murray Rothbard
         2. Police, Courts, and Laws - On The Market - David Friedman
         3. Market for Liberty (excerpt) - Morris and Linda Tannehill
         4. Pursuing Justice in a Free Society: Crime Prevention and the Legal Order - Randy Barnett
         5. Capitalist Production and the Problem of Public Goods - Hans Hoppe
         6. Vindication of Natural Society - Edmund Burke
         7. The Production of Security - Gustave de Molinari
         8. Individualist Anarchism in the United States: The Origins - Murray Rothbard
         9. Anarchism and American Traditions - Voltairine de Cleyre
        10. No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority - Lysander Spooner


    * a.k.a. "anarchy"

    Also, see these recommendations by Kinsella, Gordon, and Hoppe.
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  • Fri, Mar 28 2008 4:39 PM In reply to

    • jtucker
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    Re: Book recommendations

    you know what is great? Ballve's Essentials of Economics. I'm really thrilled with this book--it had vanished for a couple of decades. Now it is back. Everyone here would learn from it. It is clear, sober, and beautifully written -- and also Misesian in every way. tip top.  

    Jeffrey Tucker

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  • Fri, Mar 28 2008 5:09 PM In reply to

    Re: Book recommendations

    jtucker:
    Ballve's Essentials of Economics

    Damn it. I meant to get that, but forgot all about it since it wasn't in my wishlist. And it was only $10, which is nothing to us in Euroland.

    I ended up ordering: Human Action (The Scholars Edition), America's Great Depression, Pillars of Prosperity, Man, Economy, and State, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, The Keynesian Episode, Principles of Economics, Epistemological Problems of Economics, Theory and History and Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles.

    Shipping isn't cheap, but I still end saving massively. That, and I haven't been able find a single book by any of the Austrian economists here in Finland. I did find Keynes' General Theory in a big bookstore in Helsinki; it was mighty dusty and had a price tag of 95 euros ($150 or so). 

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