I thought it would be worthwhile to make this thread, basically I just got the idea that we could all nominate what we think is the best and possibly overlooked or underrated book available on mises.org. My nomination is Manuel Ayau’s Not a Zero Sum Game. it is simply amazing, and a book I even mistakenly overlooked thinking it was a kid’s introduction to the benefits of trade; I couldn’t have been more wrong.
I started making some notes in order to fully appreciate and sketch out the implications of the division of labour, as evidenced in the query I recently made, and this is now the ultimate compliment. Look forward to other responses.
There are so many! For my part, I’m constantly amazed that there is not more attention given to Garrett’s novels, particularly Cinder Buggy.
George Reisman’s Government Against the Economy was a pretty big help to me when I was looking for something on the evils of price controls and really helped to further my learning.
@jeffery T.
I know the Cinder Buggy is supposedly the third in a three series volume by Garrett, but is each book seperate, or do you need to begin with The Driver?
For underrated books, Maybe Henry Haz. “Thinking as a Science”. Some of the best advice i’ve ever be introduced to
We might think of them as a series but he didn’t write them that way. No need to begin with a particular one.
I just toured a West Virginia coal mine and spent some days in Pittsburgh. I can tell you that I would have been clueless about the significance of this stuff without having read Cinder.
I just read the description of the book yesterday. Going to start reading it ASAP. It sounds like capital investment for the brain. 