Reading List
The following is a collection of articles and books in the libertarian tradition to help you get started. All links point to online resources. Please help yourself.
Austrian Economics Resources
15 Great Austrian Economists - (http://www.mises.org/books/15great.pdf)
Introduction to Economic Reasoning, An - (http://mises.org/books/EconReasoning.pdf)
Introduction to Austrian Economics, An - (http://mises.org/books/introtoaustrian.pdf)
Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays, The - (http://mises.org/pdf/austtrad.pdf)
Chaos Theory (the one about Anarchist Capitalism, not fractals)- (http://mises.org/books/chaostheory.pdf)
Economic Science and the Austrian Method - (http://mises.org/esandtam.asp)
Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School (2nd edition) - (http://mises.org/books/econforrealpeople.pdf)
Economics of Liberty, The - (http://www.mises.org/books/economicsofliberty.pdf)
Theory and History Hardcover - (http://mises.org/Books/theoryhistory.pdf)
Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises - (http://mises.org/midroad.asp, http://mises.org/libprop.asp)
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth - (http://mises.org/pdf/econcalc.pdf)
Education: Free and Compulsory - (http://mises.org/books/education.pdf)
Antitrust: The Case for Repeal - (http://mises.org/books/antitrust.pdf)
Economics in One Lesson - (http://jim.com/econ/)
What Has Government Done To Our Money? (http://www.mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf)
HSC CD - (http://mises.org/resources/2022)
HSC Supplemental Reading: - (contains snippets from the following)
- For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (http://mises.org/rothbard/foranewlb.pdf)
**Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance (http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae2_2_2.pdf)
**On Certainty and Uncertainty (http://mises.org/journals/rae/pdf/rae10_1_3.pdf)
**Free Market Transportation: Denationalizing the Roads (http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_2/3_2_7.pdf)
**Rethinking Patent Law (http://mises.org/article.aspx?Id=468)
**In Praise of Bugs (http://mises.org/article.aspx?Id=404&FS=+In+Praise+of+Bugs)
**The Idea of Liberty is Western (http://mises.org/mmmp.asp)
**The Plight of Underdeveloped Nations (http://mises.org/mmmp.asp)
**WW1 as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals (http://www.mises.org/story/2543)
**Coase and Demsetz on Private Property Rights (http://mises.org/journals/jls/1_2/1_2_4.pdf)
- For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (http://mises.org/rothbard/foranewlb.pdf)
Articles and Papers
Lew Rockwell, "An American Classical Liberalism"
Murray Rothbard, "Anatomy of the State"
---, "A Strategy for the Right"
Gene Callahan, "Moral Equivalence?"
---, "A World Without You"
Everything by Lew Rockwell.
Dmitry Chernikov, "War as Chaos Enforcement"
---, "Ideology and Social Evolution"
---, "The Bogeyman of Libertarian 'Atomism'"
---, "Our Interests and Theirs"
---, "Drafting Sowell"
---, "Attaining Both Security and Liberty"
---, "Animal Rightists – Allies for Liberty?"
---, "Sowell and His Efficient Police State"
Jeff Tucker & Lew Rockwell, "The Cultural Thought of Ludwig von Mises"
Joseph Salerno, "Ludwig von Mises As Social Rationalist"
---, "Postscript: Why a Socialist Economy is 'Impossible'"
Murray Rothbard, "Laissez-Faire Radical: A Quest for the Historical Mises"
Alex Tabarrok, "Death Taxes: Theory, History, and Ethics"
Murray Rothbard, "Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist"
Michael Levin, "How Philosophical Errors Impede Freedom"
Donald W. Livingston, "A Moral Accounting of the Union and the Confederacy"
Paul A. Cantor, "Hyperinflation and Hyperreality: Thomas Mann in Light of Austrian Economics"
Pertaining specifically to the Austrian school of economics: Required Readings.
Books
Étienne de La Boétie, Discource on Voluntary Servitude
Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson
Gene Callahan, Economics for Real People
Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition
---, Socialism
---, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
---, Epistemological Problems of Economics
Murray Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty
---, Making Economic Sense
---, What Has Government Done to Our Money?
---, The Mystery of Banking
---, Education: Free and Compulsory
George Reisman, The Government Against the Economy
Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (abridged)
Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government
Hans-Hermann Hoppe ed., The Myth of National Defense
Lysander Spooner, No Treason
Massive Treatises
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Murray Rothbard, Man, Economy, & State with Power and Market
George Reisman, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics
Jesus Huerta de Soto, Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles