Books to Buy

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Just interested:

What are some books that forum members are considering purchasing from the Mises store?

I’ll go first: I was thinking about getting myself History of Money and Banking and Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought by Murray Rothbard.

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I just bought ‘Human Action’, ‘Theory and History’, ‘The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science’, ‘Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises’, all by.. Mises. I also picked up ‘Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature’, ‘The Ethics of Liberty’ all by Rothbard. Uh, let’s see… and ‘Introduction to Austrian Economics’ by Thomas Taylor. Chaos Theory and The Production of Security. 33 Questions, We Who Dared, and Politically Incorrect Guide all by Woods. All in one go. Next year I might pick up MES.

Around six months ago I picked up “Economics for Real People” and “Economics in One Lesson”, “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” and “For a New Liberty”, “American’s Great Depression”, “Let’s Abolish Government”, “Democracy: The God That Failed”, “The Myth of National Defense”, “The Nature of Man and His Government”, and finally, “Antitrust Policy”.

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Those are both fantastic books. It would certainly be in your interest to add them to your library.

It was my birthday last Sunday, so I got a heap of paper-and-ink. I’m going to buy the following:

  1. The Bastiat Collection
  2. Human Action
  3. Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market
  4. For a New Liberty
  5. Commerce and Government Considered in Their Mutual Relationship by Abbe de Condillac
  6. Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs
  7. Depression, War, and Cold War by Robert Higgs
  8. Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles by Jesús Huerta de Soto
  9. Democracy: The God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
  10. The Private Production of Defense by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
  11. Against Intellectual Property by Stephan Kinsella
  12. Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined by Friedrich von Hayek

I’m also getting some stuff outside Mises (Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Kant, Heidegger, Feuerbach, as well as The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill). I’m getting some more books for Christmas and then I’m just going to go into my room and not come out for months.

EDIT: Might as well share what books I’m getting for Christmas.

  1. The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman
  2. Nation, State, and Economy by Ludwig von Mises
  3. The Myth of National Defense by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
  4. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
  5. The Failure of the New Economics by Henry Hazlitt
  6. The Socialist Tradition by Alexander Gray
  7. Theory and History by Ludwig von Mises
  8. Socialism by Ludwig von Mises
  9. Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure by Dominick Armentano
  10. Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism by Gunter Reimann
  11. The State by Franz Oppenheimer
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Both very good books. History of Money and Banking has a great introduction by Salerno in which he explains thymology, something I think isn’t really talked about much.

I just actually got Rothbard vs the Philosophers which I think just came out and a print version of The Costs of War because it is really something you should have in book form.

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in order of what i want first and then…

  1. Human Action

  2. Man, Economy, and State

  3. Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (might read on-line, but the other two I definitely want to have in the library I’m growing)

  4. I want to get some Robert Higgs books. He seems to be right down my alley. Any of his that I might want to put at the top of my Higgs list?

all something i might be able to get after christmas

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That one sounds real good. anybody read it yet, aside from it just coming out?

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If no one tells you how it is by the time I am done reading it, I will be sure to do such.

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cool

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They are all great in my opinion, I’d put Crisis and Leviathan at the top though.

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The books I’ve bought:

  • Prices and Production and other works -Hayek

  • The Theory of Money and Credit -Mises

  • Mystery of Banking -Rothbard

  • Capital and its Structure -Lachmann

  • Economics in one lesson -Hazlitt

  • Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays -Haberler, Mises, Rothbard, Hayek

  • The Positive Theory of Capital -Bohm-Bawerk

  • Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles -De Soto

  • The Anti-Capitalist Mentality -Mises

  • Human Action -Mises

  • Individualism and Economic Order -Hayek

  • Interest and Prices -Wicksell

  • The Road to Serfdom -Hayek

I’m thinking about buying Man, Economy and State, and History of Economic Thought Before Smith.

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excellent. thanks.

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Related books I have:

  • End the Fed - Ron Paul
  • PIG to the Great Depression - Bob Murphy
  • Meltdown - Tom Woods
  • Human Action - Ludwig von Mises

Next on the list:

  • Economics in one Lesson - Henry Hazlit
  • Man, Economy, State - Murry Rothbard

As soon as I’m not tragically poor, I’ll get more books and continue buying and reading. Two other things I want is a membership to the LvMI and the “Enemy of the State” flask. :slight_smile:

EDIT: I’m not really tragically poor, case you were wondering. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thanks for all of your input, guys. My entire Mises store library consists of How Capitalism Saved America by DiLorenzo, Human Action and Socialism by Mises, and Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles by de Soto. I figured the two Rothbard books I mentioned in the OP would be a good next step in terms of my education.

Anyone else want to share what books they currently have and/or what books they plan on buying?

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I bought this book, I believe, about a month ago. One of the clearest books on economic history I have ever partially read. Today, I actually bought three books: Hayek’s Contra Keynes and Cambridge, Antoine Murphy’s Richard Cantillon and Hayek’s Prices and Production.

In the near future, I will probably buy Lachman’s Capital and Production.

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My current Austrian library (I have a bunch of non-Austrian stuff too, but whatever):

  1. The Law by Frederic Bastiat
  2. Capital and Interest by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
  3. The Positive Theory of Capital by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
  4. Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
  5. The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn
  6. Prices and Production by Friedrich von Hayek
  7. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek
  8. Individualism and Economic Order by Friedrich von Hayek
  9. Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
  10. The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises
  11. Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises
  12. The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies by Murray N. Rothbard
  13. America’s Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard
  14. What Has Government Done to Our Money?/The Case for the 100% Gold Dollar by Murray N. Rothbard
  15. The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
  16. Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought by Murray N. Rothbard
  17. History of Money and Banking in the United States by Murray N. Rothbard
  18. Treatise on Political Economy by Jean-Baptiste Say
  19. Let’s Abolish Government by Lysander Spooner
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Great book, but it’s included in Prices and Production and Other works.

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It includes Sraffa’s criticism of Prices and Production? If so, I should see if I can cancel that order.

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No.I confused Contra-Keynes and Cambridge with something else. Either way, it’s a great book and very entertaining.

Sraffra’s critique is very good by the way. He’s really the only one, along with Khaldor, who’s ever really put ABCT in question. Austrians still have to respond to him.

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will this do ?

Reflections on Reswitching and Roundaboutness

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Actually, Lachmann has an article on the debate betwen Hayek and Sraffa, called “Austrian economics under fire.” I’m not sure if he addresses all of Sraffa’s points, but he shows the very different background assumptions the two were operating under, as well as criticizing Sraffa’s whole theoretical perspective.

As for other books, Rothbard’s Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought is really a must read. It’s on the same level as MES, at least.