I wish I could post my library, but unfortunately I’m at college right now.
This is somewhat of a side topic, but do any of you highlight/underline/take notes for any of your books? Some books I extensively annotate, others I leave alone. What about you guys?
Extensively.
This is one of the reasons I love my Kindle now. And the fact that I can share clippings…
This is one hell of a gravedig, but I picked up The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul today when I was doing some Christmas shopping at the mall. By the way, I love 40% discounts.
I also asked for Economics in One Lesson, Introduction to Economic Reasoning, For a New Liberty, and The Creature from Jekyll Island for Christmas.
I’m reading that right now. Absolutely fantastic. Down to earth, humor filled, intelligible information presented by Dr. Gordon himself. I bet you 10 dollars you learn something new in the very first chapter.
The reason I asked for it is because you previously recommended it, heh.
It’s good stuff. If you don’t have a education in economics then you will finally start to get what everyone is talking about.
Here are a few more I’ve gotten since the beginning of this thread:
And, Lilburne, if you happen to see this, I’ve gotten these and three more are being delivered right now:
You have the Logic of Action?
[;)]
How is Economic Thought in Spain?
This is a really enjoyable thread! Time to share mine:
Socialism hardcover, Human Action, The Theory of Money and Credit, Socialism paperback, A critique of Interventionism, Epistemological Problems of Economics, On the Manipulation of Money and Credit, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth, Bureaucracy, Planning for Freedom, Theory and History, Man Economy and State with Power and Market, Rothbards History of Economic thought books, Economic Science and the Austrian Method, A theory of Socialism and Capitalism, Democracy the god that failed, The economics and ethics of private property, Money bank credit and economic cycles. A nice smooth continuum of Mises > Rothbard > Hoppe + De Soto [H]
Under that:
Left to right: Mises last knight of liberalism, My years with Ludwig von Mises, The Market for Liberty, Anarchy and the Law, The Failure of the New Economics, Envy, The Road to Serfdom, Capitalism and the Historians, The Law (bastiat), The politically incorrect guide to capitalism, The concise guide to economics, Healing our world in an age of aggression, The revolution, Reason and Analysis (blanshard), Rational Economic Man, The VNR encyclopedia of mathematics, some books on epistemology, a few books by Aristotle, a few books on evolution, and religion explained.
On the shelf below that you can see a bunch of novels, some ayn rand books I never read, and other assorted novelties. I didn’t bother to take a shot of my bottommost shelf as it houses a bunch of random books I’ve collected over the years.
Awesome! I can make out the names of the Greek ones, but what’s that slender little Latin number in the middle?
Just interested in this… are there any private libraries anywhere?
Not like private collections, but a proper library - that has extensive collections, rare books [Liberty] - but you have to pay to enter or be a member?
I’d imagine that is what it would have been like before all these public funded libraries…
To be honest, I’m just day dreaming about sitting down in one of these, library chairs surrounded by Rothbard’s personal library, the entire LvMI’s books & libraries and every other conceivable classic out there..
Anyway, carry on.. lol [:$]
I think you just formulated a great business project.
Here is an update on my list:
I Own:
Human Action, Ludwig von Mises
Theory and History, Ludwig von Mises
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, Ludwig von Mises
Two Essays (Liberty & Property, Middle-of-the-Road), Ludwig von Mises
For a New Liberty, Murray N. Rothbard
The Ethics of Liberty, Murray N. Rothbard
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, Murray N. Rothbard
American’s Great Depression, Murray N. Rothbard
What Has Government Done to Our Money?/Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar
We Who Dared to Say No to War, Thomas E. Woods Jr.
33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask, Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Defending the Undefendable, Walter Block
The Privatization of Roads and Highways, Walter Block
An Introduction to Austrian Economics, Thomas C. Taylor
The Nature of Man and His Government, Robert LeFevre
Chaos Theory, Robert P. Murphy
The Production of Security, Gustave de Molinari
Let’s Abolish Government, Lysander Spooner
Democracy: The God That Failed, Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Market for Liberty, The Tannehill’s
Economics for Real People, Gene Callahan
An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, David Gordon
Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt
Will Buy in 2010/11:
Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Murray N. Rothbard
History of Money and Banking, Murray N. Rothbard
Libertarian Forum (2 Volume), Murray N. Rothbard
Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Murray N. Rothbard
The Postive Theory of Capital, Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk
The Theory of Money and Credit, Ludwig von Mises
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, Ludwig von Mises
Principles of Economics, Carl Menger
Prices and Production and Other works, F.A. Hayek
The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Myth of National Defense, Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, George Reisman
Praxeology and Understanding, George Selgin
Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles by Huerta de Soto, Jesús
Our Enemy, The State by Albert Jay Nock
Genes, Peoples, and Languages, Luigi Cavalli-Sforza
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
On Power, Bertrand De Jouvenel
The State, Franz Oppenheimer
The Evolution of Civilizations, Carroll Quigley
Principles of Sociology, Herbert Spencer
Tell me what you think after reading the first chapter of Economic Reasoning. It will probably blow your mind.
[:)] I have another business project… that would be epic imo, but it would be an IP lawyers wet dream (I’d get sued by everyone music industry company, film industry, computer industry firm out there) lol… sigh
I also don’t have much capital (for the library project) and I don’t think there would be much demand at the moment where I live. So I’m in a side project that essentially aims to make the demand (push people to liberty), and publish liberty books… so a library would kind of be the end game.
I was reading the introduction earlier, which was awesome. I can tell I’m going to enjoy reading it. I want to finish The Revolution first, as I’m on the third-to-last chapter.
I also skimmed through the pages and saw a diagram of “Two-headed Monsters” and “Communists.” This is gonna be good lol
Categorical syllogisms!
