When people talk about Mises, they often mention that his four “treatises” are “The Theory of Money and Credit”, “Socialism”, “Human Action”, and “Theory and History”. Does Rothbard have a similar list?
Since I made a scan for another thread a few minutes ago:
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Man, Economy, and State in 1962.
Also, the article in a book of essays dedicated to Mises (edited by Spadaro), an essay on reconstructing welfare economics.
Edit: some people might add his Histories of Economic Thought in two volumes as groundbreaking. I like them very much, but there are some errors as in any large history of thought (he’s giving some authors in the past too much credit. Did Copernicus really in three essays really rival a contribution of Azpilcueta’s on the quantity theory of money? I would say no, for instance, having gotten the translations of both authors.)
His magnum opera are Man, Economy and State, Conceived in Liberty and An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, but another noteworthy book is America’s Great Depression. Also, a collection of his articles published as A History of Money and Banking in the United States is very important.
Books- Man, Economy, and State (Full Text) (1962)
- The Panic of 1819. 1962, 2006 edition.
- America’s Great Depression. (Full Text) (1963, 1972, 1975, 1983, 2000)
- What Has Government Done to Our Money? (Full Text / Audio Book) (1963)
- Economic Depressions: Causes and Cures (1969)
- Power and Market. (1970) (restored to Man, Economy, and State, 2004)
- Education: Free and Compulsory. ISBN 0-945466-22-6. (1972)
- Left and Right, Selected Essays 1954-65 (1972)
- For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (Full text / Audio book) (1973, 1978)
- The Essential von Mises (1973)
- The Case for the 100 Percent Gold Dollar. (Full Text / Audio Book) (1974)
- Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays (1974)
- Conceived in Liberty (4 vol.) (1975–79)
- Individualism and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. (1979)
- The Ethics of Liberty (Full Text / Audio Book) (1982)
- The Mystery of Banking (1983)
- Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero. OCLC 20856420. (1988)
- Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labor. Full text (included as Chapter 16 in Egalitarianism above) (1991)
- The Case Against the Fed (1994)
- An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (2 vol.)(1995)
- Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy. (Full Text) with an introduction by Justin Raimondo. (1995)
- Making Economic Sense. (1995, 2006)
- Logic of Action (2 vol.) (1997, to be reprinted as Economic Controversies in 2009)
- The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays. (also by Mises, Hayek, & Haberler)
- Irrepressible Rothbard: The Rothbard-Rockwell Report Essays of Murray N. Rothbard. (Full Text.) (Preface by JoAnn Rothbard) (Introduction by Lew Rockwell). (2000)
- A History of Money and Banking in the United States.(2005)
- The Complete Libertarian Forum (2 vol.) (1969–84; 2006)
- The Betrayal of the American Right (2007)
It’s kind of like… take your pick.
I think the only shortlist of his books that could make sense would be his “most influential”.
Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, and America’s Great Depression.