Austrian Economics "What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you." - Ludwig von Mises [top]

History/Theory 15 Great Austrian Economists - Randall G. Holcombe The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays - Ludwig von Mises, et al. Economic Science and the Austrian Method - Hans-Hermann Hoppe Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School - Gene Callahan An Introduction to Economic Reasoning - David Gordon New Directions in Austrian Economics - Louis M. Spadaro Why Austrian Economics Matters - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Written by Ludwig von Mises The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality - Ludwig von Mises Epistemological Problems of Economics - Ludwig von Mises Human Action: A Treatise on Economics - Ludwig von Mises Liberalism: The Classical Tradition - Ludwig von Mises (e-text) Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis - Ludwig von Mises (e-text) Theory and History - Ludwig von Mises Written by Murray Rothbard Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays Making Economic Sense Conceived in Liberty (4 volume set)

Economics "The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." - Thomas Sowell [top]

Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One - Thomas Sowell [November 1, 2003] Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy - Thomas Sowell [December 2000] Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity - James Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Dwight Lee [February 1, 2005] Conquest of Poverty - Henry Hazlitt Individualism and Economic Order - Friedrich A. Hayek The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Vol 3) - W. W. Bartley (ed.), Stephen Kresge (ed.), Friedrich A. Hayek

Libertarianism/Political Philosophy "A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -because the first leads inevitably to the second." - Harry Browne [top]

The Ethics of Liberty - Murray Rothbard [1982] The Great Libertarian Offer - Harry Browne Healing Our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle - Mary J., Dr. Ruwart, Brian Betzold (Illustrator) The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman - David Boaz (ed.) Libertarianism: A Primer - David Boaz Showdown - Larry Elder The Ten Things You Can't Say in America - Larry Elder The What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation - Charles Murray Why Government Doesn't Work; How Reducing Government Will Bring Us Safer Cities Better Schools - Harry Browne

Ayn Rand/Objectivism "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." - Ayn Rand [top]

Written by Ayn Rand Anthem - Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Afterword) Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - Ayn Rand The For the New Intellectual - Ayn Rand The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Afterword) Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology - Ayn Rand Philosophy: Who Needs It - Ayn Rand Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism - Ayn Rand We the Living - Ayn Rand Why Businessmen Need Philosophy - Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, Richard E. Ralston

Firearms "Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest." - From the Declaration of the Continental Congress (July 1775) [top]

Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control - Gary Kleck, Don B. Kates Armed & Female - Paxton Quigley The Best Defense: True Stories of Intended Victims Who Defended Themselves With a Firearm - Robert A. Waters Guns: Who Should Have Them? - David B. Kopel (ed.) Little Handbook on the Second Amendment: What the American aristocracy Does Not Want You to Know - Dr. Joseph L. Bass Guns Save Lives: True Stories of Americans Defending Their Lives with Firearms - Robert A. Waters, Larry Craig More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics (Chicago, Ill.).) - John R., Jr. Lott The Seven Myths of Gun Control: Reclaiming the Truth About Guns, Crime, and the Second Amendment - Richard Poe, David Horowitz (Foreword) That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right - Stephen P. Halbrook The Tyranny of Gun Control - Jacob G. Hornberger (ed.), Richard M. Ebeling (ed.)

Money & Credit "Present goods are, as a rule, worth more than future goods of like kind and number. This proposition is the kernel and centre of the interest theory which I have to present. All the lines of explanation, by which I hope to elucidate the phenomena of interest, run through this fact." - Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Positive Theory of Capital, 1889: p.237 [top]

Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economic Theory - Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk [1890] The Case Against the Fed - Murray Rothbard [June 1, 1994] The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar - Murray Rothbard Money, Method and the Market Process - Ludwig von Mises The Mystery of Banking - Murray Rothbard [1983] (pdf file) On the Manipulation of Money and Credit - Ludwig von Mises What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Murray Rothbard [1980]

Drugs & Healthcare "The War on Drugs is a price support system for terrorists and drug pushers. It turns ordinary, cheap plants like marijuana and poppies into fantastically lucrative black market products. Without the War on Drugs, the financial engine that fuels terrorist organizations would sputter to a halt." – Ron Crickenberger, Libertarian Party Political Director [top]

Drugs Addiction is a Choice - Jeffrey A. Schaler (Pub: November 1, 1999) After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century - Timothy Lynch (ed.) (Pub: November 1, 2000) Bad Trip - Joel Miller (Pub: June 2, 2004) Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out - Michael Gray (Pub: June 1, 1998) Drug War Addiction - Sheriff Bill Masters (Pub: December 10, 2001) On Liberty and Drugs: Essays on the Free Market and Prohibition - Milton Friedman and Thomas Szasz (Pub: August 1, 1992) Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use - Jacob Sullum (Pub: May 1, 2003) Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure - Dan Baum (Pub: May 5, 1997) The War on Drugs: A War on Ourselves - (Video) John Stossel (Aired: 2002) Health Care The Dangers of Socialized Medicine - Jacob Hornberger (Ed.), Richard Ebeling (Ed.) (Pub: February 1, 1994)

Education "The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." - H. L. Mencken [top]

The Conspiracy of Ignorance: The Failure of American Public Schools - Martin L. Gross Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling - John Taylor Gatto, David Albert (Introduction), Thomas Moore Education: Free & Compulsory - Murray N. Rothbard Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe - Charles L. Glenn The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late - Thomas Sowell The Global Education Industry - James Tooley, Birgitta Kantola Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas - Thomas Sowell Late-Talking Children - Thomas Sowell The Power Grab: How the National Education Association Is Betraying Our Children - G. Gregory Moo The Teacher Unions: How They Sabotage Educational Reform and Why - Myron Lieberman What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades, Optimum Learning, Minimum Time - Adam Robinson Why Schools Fail - Bruce Goldberg

Environment [top]

Apocalypse Not: Science, Economics, and Environmentalism - Ben Bolch, Harold Lyons Breaking the Environmental Policy Gridlock (Hoover Institution Press Publication, No 439) - Terry L. Anderson (ed.) Cutting Green Tape: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation, and the Law - Richard L. Stroup (ed.), Roger E. Meiners (ed.), W. Kip Viscusi, foreword by W. Kip Viscusi Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader - Jonathan H. Adler (ed.) Ecoscam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse - Ronald Bailey Free Market Environmentalism - Terry L. Anderson, Donald R. Leal Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto - Peter Huber Out of Bounds, Out of Control: Regulatory Enforcement at the EPA - James V. Delong Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution - Ayn Rand The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World - Bjorn Lomborg So-called "Global Warming" Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming - Thomas Gale Moore Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death - Ronald Bailey (ed.), Competitive Enterprise Institute Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial - M. Mihkel Mathiesen, Zbigniew Jaworowski The Satanic Gases - Patrick J. Michaels, Robert C. Balling Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming - Patrick J. Michaels

History [top]

American Revolution/Founding Fathers The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates - Ralph Ketcham (ed.) Conceived in Liberty (4 Volume Set) - Murray N. Rothbard The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson - David N. Mayer The Federalist Papers: In Modern Language: Indexed for Today's Political Issues - Mary E. Webster (ed.) The Founders' Constitution (5 Volume Set) - Ralph Lerner (ed.), Philip B. Kurland (ed.) More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well - Walter E. Williams Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America) - Thomas Paine, Eric Foner (ed.) Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution - A. J. Langguth American War Between the States Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War - Jeffrey Rogers Hummel The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War - Thomas J. Dilorenzo The South Was Right! - James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy Was Jefferson Davis Right? - James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy When in the Course of Human Events - Charles Adams America's Great Depression America's Great Depression - Murray Rothbard

	Other [top]
	Government Abuse and Destruction Omnipotent Government: The Rise of Total State and Total War - Ludwig von Mises The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich A. Hayek Socialism and War - Friedrich A. Hayek