I need something affordable and important because I can often not afford books, although I might be able to get my mother to buy them for me. Fucking fractional reservists at the bank screwing me on overdraw… anyway…
I have read; Liberalism, The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty, Individualism and Economic Order, and Economics In One Lesson.
What is a good ‘next book’ to buy? I don’t mind the author, they’re all good, and I don’t mind how big it is - before you suggest Human Action, I’m waiting for a friend to finish it before I can borrow it from him.
I know that there are alot of free books here on mises but I don’t like ebooks. I’d rather own the thing physically, and I also want to support Mises.org by buying from them.
I’m also hoping to get Prices and Production for christmas so leave that one for now. Any topic is fine.
if you dont mind length, “man, economy and state” by rothbard is a must read, as is “what has government done to our money”. i also thoroughly enjoyed “how capitalism saved america” by dilorenzo, very fast and easy to read. one of those books you dont want to put down.
I like Thomas Wood, if you are interested in US history. Also, you might want to check you local library, mine had selected titles from many of the authors suggested above.
If you want some political philosophy book, Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia is a must read: illuminating, brilliant, logically flawless, convincing, funny + cohords of welfarists and socialists of all sorts haven’t managed to refute it -though there have been thousands of attempts at it in the (over) three decades since its publication -
Buchanan’s The Limits of Liberty, Narveson’s The Libertarian Idea & Lester’s Escape from Leviathan are also extremely good; so is David Schmidtz’s book mentioned above; and, for a more moderate right-based form of libertariansim, Lomasky’s Persons, Rights and the Moral Community.
Some books I’d recommend: anything by Henry Veatch, but especially his Rational Man, For an Ontology of Morals, Two Logics and Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation. Most of his works are short, clear and well-argued. Then by Rasmussen and den Uyl I’d recommend Norms of Liberty and Liberty and Nature, though beware as these works presuppose a good deal of knowledge in ethics. Finally, Anthony de Jasay’s Against Politics and The State, as well as Bertrand de Jouvenel’s On Power and Sovereignty.
