10 Book Reading List to Learn Austrian Economics

Economics Economics Questions
1

If you were to create a 10 book reading list that taught people austrian views on money, banking, economic history, and all other parts of the austrian school, as well as austrian critiques of keynesianism and socialism, what would it be?

2

Gary North has a particularly relevant list.

3

In no order:

  1. Economics in One Lesson

  2. Human Action

  3. Man, Economy, and State

  4. America’s Great Depression

  5. Theory and History

  6. Prices and Production

  7. Principles of Economics

  8. The Positive Theory of Capital

  9. Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles

  10. The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

4

  1. Anatomy of the state

  2. Making of modern economics

  3. Man economy and state

  4. Human Action

  5. Case for legalizing capitalism

  6. For a New Liberty

  7. Economic calculation in the socialist commonwealth

  8. Creature from jekyll island

  9. Meltdown

  10. America’s great depression

5

These are all good lists. However, I don’t think I clarified what I was trying to say.

A 10 book reading list with one book for each category is what i’m looking for.

so…

1.Money

2.Banking

3.Business Cycle

4.Capital and Interest

5.Inflation and/or Deflation

6.Criticism of socialism

7.Criticism of keynesianism

8.Economic history

9.praxeology

10.overall introduction

6

  1. The Theory of Money and Credit

  2. Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles

  3. America’s Great Depression

  4. Man, Economy, and State

  5. Human Action

  6. Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

  7. The Failure of the New Economics

  8. Capitalism and The Historians or How Capitalism Saved America

  9. The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

  10. Human Action (or if your going for friendly introduction then Lessons for the young economist)