Hello, First time poster here. I’ve been doing some reading on mises for the last several months and am looking for the basic introductory texts for Austrian Econ. Specifically I will begin taking an economics course in about a week that will be using Gregory Mankiw’s Principles of Economics text. …

[image] Essentials of Economics by FAUSTINO BALLVE Economics Questions I have recently finished this book as well, and alongside Gene Callahan’s “Economics for Real People” I think it ranks as one of the very best introductory Austrian economic texts for beginn…

Mankiw’s book is great as far as neoclassical econ goes, Moss has a nice small book called The Concise Guide to Macroeconomics that is really worth checking out, and the Sowell book you mentioned is rather good too. That’ll give you a good basis for mainstream economics, a lot of which is good to ha…

Awesome, thanks guys. I found all of those except the Menger PoE book. Any idea where I might be able to find a copy of that?

It’s available on the site for free, just search for “Menger” in the literature section and you’ll find it.

Ok, one more question. If I wanted to submit my essays for review/critique/feedback to the mises crowd what would the best method of doing so be?

I"m entering the final week of my class and while I haven’t had time to dig into the Austrian titles (chomping at the bit for those) the Moss recomendation was superb. Mankiw’s title is, like most text books, fairly dry. Using’s Moss to tie the concepts together has been a god send. I must also not…

Mankiw’s book is dry, but all economics books are to some extent (Austrian works included), compare it with Sloman’s Principles of Economics and you’ll really begin to appreciate Mankiw’s book. It’s also free of a lot of Keynesian anachronisms, I liked it a lot, he explains well and clearly. As for…

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liberty_student May 20, 2009, 6:01pm 2

The book mentioned in that thread, and the book by Gene Callahan referenced in that post seem to be good choices.

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