Author: Walter Block
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: undefendable, defending
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN-10: 1933550171
ISBN-13: 9781933550176

Professor Block’s book is in a new edition from the Mises Institute, completely reset and beautifully laid out in an edition worthy of its contents. It is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial economic practices, from profiteering and gouging to bribery and blackmail. However, beneath the surface, this book is also an outstanding work of microeconomic theory that explains the workings of economic forces in everyday events and affairs. Murray Rothbard explains why: "Defending the Undefendable performs the service of highlighting, the fullest

Author: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Publisher: Ludwig Von Mises Institute
Keywords: method, austrian, science, economic
Number of Pages: 82
Published: 2007-02-26
ISBN-10: 094546620X
ISBN-13: 9780945466208

A definitive defense of the praxeological view: economics as a purely deductive science. Hoppe rests his argument on the Kantian idea of the "synthetic apriori" proposition, thereby expanding an aim of Mises’s in the methodology section of Human Action. Hoppe is the Austrian School’s most prominent methodologist, and here he is in top form. From the Publisher A definitive defense of the methodological foundations of Austrian economics. Hoppe sets the praxeological view (economics as a purely deductive science) against positivism, while taking the critics of the Austrian approa

Author: Gene Callahan
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: people, real, economics
Number of Pages: 351
Published: 2004-06
ISBN-10: 0945466412
ISBN-13: 9780945466413

The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn’t about government planning or statistical models. It’s about human beings and the choices they make in the real world. This may be the most important book of its kind since Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. Though written for the beginner, it has been justly praised by scholars too, including Israel Kirzner, Walter Block, and Peter Boettke.

Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher: Von Mises Institute
Keywords: loss, profit
Published: 2008
eBookDB-ID: B001N3FB02

In 1951, Mises gave an outstanding paper that made the summary case for the price system under capitalistic economic systems. In "Profit and Loss," he explains how cost accounting is the critical institution that ferrets out social waste, ensures that resources are directed to their most highly valued ends, and how entrepreneurs respond to price signals. His presentation is systematic, relentless, logical, and ultimately devastating to the opponents of profit and loss. He explains what it is that entrepreneurs confront in a market economy and how no bureaucratic institution can replicate the

Author: Henry Hazlitt
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: economics, new, failure
Number of Pages: 451
Published: 2007-03-02
ISBN-10: 1933550112
ISBN-13: 9781933550114

Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. The target here is John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory, the book that appeared in 1936 and swept all before it. In economic science, Keynes changed everything. He supposedly demonstrated that prices don’t work, that private investment is unstable, that sound money is intolerable, and that government was needed to shore up the system an

Author: LUDWIG VON MISES
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: von, mises, ludwig, works, lib, bureaucracy
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2007-02-01
ISBN-10: 0865976635
ISBN-13: 9780865976634

Written long before Public Choice economists began to take up the subject, Mises describes bureaucracies as both self-interested and economically irrational (thereby improving on the modern Public Choice critique). There is no reinventing government: if we are to have government do things for us, bureaucracies, which cannot behave efficiently, will have to do the work. This small book has grown in stature as Western economies have become more and more bureaucratized.From the publisher Mises said it right here. In these pages we find the crushing critique of nearly all modern reform movements

Author: David Gordo
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: reasoning, economic, introduction
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2000-06-01
ISBN-10: 0945466285
ISBN-13: 9780945466284

This high-school text, published in May 2000, is aimed at teaching the intelligent young reader how to think about economic problems in a manner consistent with the Austrian School tradition. Its chapters on action, preference, demand and supply, value theory, money, and price controls emphasize deductive logic, the market process, and the failures of government intervention. As the only text of its kind, this book is engaging, funny, filled with examples, and never talks down to the student. It is perfect for homeschoolers, but every student, young or old, will benefit from it. Indeed, a stud