"Foundations of the Market Price System" vs "Market Theory and Price System"

[John_James]

@jorge.d.f.branco

I’ve read both “An Introduction to Austrian Economics” by Thomas Taylor and “The Austrian School” by Huerta Soto and I want more. I’ve given a quick glance at Mises’ “Human Action” and “Theory of Money and Credit”, as well as Rothbard’s MES, but they all seem to be a bit over my head, both in the language used and in the contents presented themselves. On the other hand I’ve tried to look into Murphy’s “Lessons for the Young Economist” and fell asleep. I guess its pace is too slow for me atm. To be fair, I guess the same would happen would I had to read Sowell’s “Basic Economics” nowadays.

Hmm. Have you looked at:

Economics in One Lesson (available for free download)

How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes

Economics for Real People (available for free download)

Meltdown

Those might work for you. They may also be not “advanced” enough, but they’re pretty readable. Meltdown is especially an attention holder.

If you want something more advanced, Common Sense Economics is said to be a good intermediary step between the basics and the advanced tomes.

Gary North listed his 10 Steps to Understand Austrian Economic Theory (in order of difficulty) here. You’ll notice his Mises on Money is listed there, and it’s a good precursor to Theory of Money and Credit.

You can check out plenty more reading lists here, and of course the Ultimate Beginner Meta-thread offers a pretty sizable collection of resources.