If I listed the area I live in, you’d probably understand why about 90% of all students and professors at my college are at least liberal minded if not more extreme. I’m really tired of hearing about Marx. It seems some students just pick random philosophies and hold on to them for dear life, so th…

How much do you know about economics? Basics, advanced or nothing yet? What are you more interested in, economic, political theory or ethics?

The great thing about mises.org is that they have so much online literature readily available for your use. I’m somewhat of a fledgling like yourself, I’ve been reading this forum before and after I got back from afghanistan and only now I have started reading books. Currently I’m reading Economics …

Currently I know just the basics of austrian economics, and I’m going for a major in political science. I’m also going for a minor in philosophy, so any ethics books would be great as well.

I would go with Henry Hazlitt’s Economics In One Lesson and Gene Callahans’ Economics For Real People to start with. The basics are there, and you can build upon what you learn. Also, as it is already mentioned above, one of the great things about the LvMI website is that many books, articles, and …

I graduated years ago, but I do recall being surrounded by Marx oriented peers and professors. Afterall, the very first day, the very first class, of my college career, we covered the Communist Manifesto. Here are some books: Hans Hermann Hoppe, Democracy, The God that Failed Hans Hermann Hoppe, …

"Here are some books: Hans Hermann Hoppe, Democracy, The God that Failed Hans Hermann Hoppe, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (it might be the other way around)." I have recently read MES and HA, and have been wanting to read Hoppe since his analysis seems to be near the cutting edge of Austr…

The Ethics of Liberty for sure. I think there are some critiques from later Austrians, but overall, there is consensus on the thoughts in that book. I personally jump around between all the authors, not necessarily in chrono order.

The Ethics of Redistribution by Bertrand de Jouvenel

For your situation I cannot recommend any book any more highly than Murray Rothbard’s for a new liberty. Seriously, read that thing, I cannot stress this enough, it’s a primer on economics and not only an introduction to libertarian political theory but it could be considered an entire course on the…

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There’s this post in the Politics forum that has a long list of suggested readings, too.

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