Book Reviews

[Le_Master]

The reviews of Austrian books are disappointingly low on Amazon.

I’m constantly checking out Amazon.com to read reviews of books that I either see mentioned in the forums, articles, or footnotes in books.

Books that are quite popular especially have too few reviews. For example:

Hayek’s Prices and Production

MES (15 is insanely low for such a powerful book which has been read by so many; the one with Power and Market has only 10)

Mises’s Theory and HIstory

Bohm-Bawerk’s Positive Theory of Capital

Huerta de Soto’s Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles

Those are just some off the top of my head. I think it’s important that Austrian books have a decent number of reviews on Amazon, especially with the interest in AE becoming so great. Reading a book, especially on economics, is a big commitment, and it may be a turn off to the beginner when a book has 0 and 5 reviews, as it may look as if the work isn’t very significant. (Even 38 is absurdly low for HA.)

So, I really encourage everyone to post a review of the books they’ve read. I know it can be time consuming to write one, but it may be good for you to even collect your thoughts on what you’ve read; you could even consolidate your notes together and convert them into a review.

[Conza]

And if you don’t have the time, at least go through and say “yes” to if the review was helpful. The more numbers, the better.

Le Master, any more links for other Austrian books?

[Le_Master]

Some others I remember seeing are:

Mises’s Bureaucracy

Hayek’s Pure Theory of Capital

Hayek’s Individualism and Economic Order

Hoppe’s Economics and Ethics of Private Property

Hoppe’s Myth of the National Defense

Rothbard’s An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

Nock’s Our Enemy, The State

Bohm-Bawerk’s Capital and Interest

Block’s Privatization of Roads and Highways