Ron Paul introduced me to Austrian Economics in his book The Revolution: A Manifesto. I downloaded and listened to a few great lectures from Mises guest speakers and became interested. I’ll be honest, I started reading Human Action and its a bit beyond me, though I hope to work into it. Lets put it…

Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays by Richard Ebeling Where Keynes Went Wrong by Hunter Lewis The Case Against the Fed by Rothbard Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Mises You might want to start on Theory & History befo…

In addition to the above (especially Hazlitt): An Introduction to Economic Reasoning by David Gordon Lecture Series: Introduction to Austrian Economic Analysis by Joseph Salerno

Really, Bert? Economic Calculation by Mises to a guy who is starting out reading Austrian economics? That would have scared me off. I recommend http://mises.org/books/econforrealpeople.pdf Economics for Real People by Gene Callahan And first and foremost, How An Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by…

Really, Bert? Economic Calculation by Mises to a guy who is starting out reading Austrian economics? That would have scared me off. Actually, I thought it would spark an interest. Maybe it’s just me, but when I was getting into this stuff that was some of the first things I was jumping into.

Almost done with Economics in One Lesson, Wow, henry Hazlitt is amazing

I would suggest “For a New Liberty” (pdf available on this site) for general libertarian theory, that book literally changed my life. Economics in One Lesson is a good place to start for economics. I feel a problem with Austrian Economics is that it has pretty simple texts (Economics for real peop…

Hahn’s Masterpiece of Macroeconomics

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Definitely check here…these in particular:

Two books everyone must read

Ten Steps to Understand Austrian Economic Theory

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