Books to Buy

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I’ve only heard of Sraffa recently (largely thanks to Student), which drove my interest in continuing my education on capital theory (to better understand Sraffa’s arguments), but I started to re-read some of the books I already own. Apart from the examples provided above, Huerta de Soto deals with Sraffa, although it’s only over a few pages (and actually suggests that Sraffa’s contentions [in regards to reswitching] underscore Austrian theory, as oppose to debunk it). I also have seen these two articles by Robert Murphy:

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Thanks.

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I have a question. Is there a good economics book that is more difficult than MES, but less difficult than Prices and Production?

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A whole bunch.

I’ve taken to using the wish list to keep track of several of the books I want to get next. There are a lot of smaller works that look pretty interesting. I’ve been slowly getting the works of Mises (not quite there yet), and am thinking about also getting stuff from Hayak (so far only have Fatal Conceit, Road to Serfdom & Constitution of Liberty).

some of the works on my list:

  • Intro to Austrian Economics
  • Intro to Economic Reasoning
  • Shorter Classics of Bohm-Bawerk
  • Free Market Reader & Free Market Syllabus (2 by Greaves)
  • Rothbard vs the Philosophers
  • Origin of Money
  • Praxeology & Understanding
  • Early Speculative Bubbles
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I just signed contracts for LIBERTARIAN FORUM complete, in hardback, to sell at a much lower price than the current softcover. All good.

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I’ve been meaning to buy that for weeks but kept getting busy and forgetting. I’m really glad now. Looking forward to this hardback edition.

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Well, as I have the complete Libertarian Forum in paperback, I’m not interested in that. :slight_smile:

Personally, I don’t care for hardbacks. To me, they aren’t necessary better then paperbacks, and the cost difference puts me off. I could use the price difference to buy more books. I’ll buy them if I have no choice (book will only be out in hardback).

While I love that the Institute is doing so much publishing, I would prefer they make everything in paperback. If you want to make some things ALSO in hardback, that’s fine, but don’t like it when something is ONLY available in hardback. Also, have mixed feelings for the recent small paperbacks you’ve done. The size almost seems too small. Most of the small monograph/pamphlets I have are a little larger then that. But if the work is not available elsewhere, I’ll probably keep getting them.

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It’s always a hard choice but within the last month, we found a company that can do hardbacks for less than we pay for paperbacks.

So already we are plotting a switch on a number of titles

  • Our Enemy, The State, Nock
  • Rise and Fall of Society, Chodorov

we’ll see about more.

I mean, if we can sell them for less, why not?

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This may be the wrong thread to ask this, but I’m not sure where (other then to start a new thread).

In reading over the early Austrians, there is one that seems to be overlooked, Friedrich von Wieser, who was Bohm-Bawerk’s brother-in-law. His works are out of print. Not sure how important he (and his works are). Has he written anything of interest that it might be reprinted?

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Wieser was unsound on value. We have his works on the site but in print? hmmm

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True that. I tried to read Wieser as I was so curious to read about his theories of imputation, and the pricing of factors of production. But the first things I read from him, though I quite appreciated his writing style, struck me as so fallacious on value that it undermined my efforts to read him (especially when I have so much else to study!)

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I was astounded that you guys were able to get Alexander Gray’s works The Socialist Tradition and Development of Economic Doctrine. I actually got first editions of those but any idea when you are going to start selling The Socialist Tradition. That is certainly a book everyone should have.

Oh and any word about Ralph Raico’s book on liberalism? I really want to read that sucker.

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Any word on when or if Reisman’s Capitalism will see a price drop? Because, I mean… damn that thing is expensive.

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Reisman’s Capitalism is also a very long treatise which shouldn’t be read by the beginner who isn’t willing to cough up $100 for an econ book.

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I’ve actually been dying to get that since you’ve been mentioning it in various posts, LM.

I’m trying to compile a Christmas list right now and this thread is pretty helpful. I’ll post it when I’m finished.

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I have now heard Rothbard and Ralph Raico say it is probably the best written book on Socialism. I outstandingly agree.

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Fair enough.

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How about novels. I just read The Driver and it was great. Does anybody know of other great novelists like Garret and Rand?

Thanks.

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Definitely worth the $95 I paid for it. It’s also like twice as big as any other book I have (Human Action included), so you get your “bang for the buck”.

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He wrote three more! all are amazing. All of them.