Authors:LUDWIG VON MISES, H.E. Batson,
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: ludwig, von, mises, works, lib, money, credit, theory
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1981-07-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0913966711
ISBN-13: 9780913966716

In 1912, when Mises, at age thirty-one, wrote this landmark book, no monetary theory could be described as both securely founded on economic reality and properly incorporated into an analysis of the entire economic system. "The Theory of Money and Credit" opened new vistas. It integrated monetary theory into the main body of economic analysis for the first time, providing fresh new insights into the nature of money and its role in the economy. As the well-known "Austrian" economist Rothbard writes in his new foreword: "This book performed the mighty feat of integrating monetary with micro theo

Author: DAVID HUME
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: clas, liberty, vol, england, history
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1984-08-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0865970319
ISBN-13: 9780865970311

David Hume’s great, enduring reputation in philosophy tends to obscure the fact that, among his contemporaries, his history of England was a more successful work. The history covers almost 1800 years. Hume saw English history as an evolution from a government of will to a government of law. Advanced in Hume’s masterly prose, this argument continues to make the "History" a valuable study for the modern reader. This Liberty Fund edition is based on the edition of 1778, the last to contain corrections by Hume. The typography has been modernized for ease of reading. Hume’s own in

Author: LUDWIG VON MISES
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: works, ludwig, von, mises, lib, work, freedom, market, system, planning
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2008-08-20
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0865976600
ISBN-13: 9780865976603

In this anthology, Mises offers an articulate and accessible introduction to and critique of two topics he considers especially important: inflation and government interventionism. According to Mises, inflation, that is monetary expansion, is destructive; it destroys savings and investment, which are the basis for production and prosperity. Government controls and economic planning never accomplish what their proponents intend. Mises consistently argues that the solution to government intervention is free markets and free enterprise, which call for reforming government. For that, ideas must be

Author: ARTHUR SELDON
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: works, arthur, seldon, collected, services, market, forces, public, introducing
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $14.50
ISBN-10: 0865975531
ISBN-13: 9780865975538

This is the fourth volume in Liberty Fund’s "The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon". It brings together six of Seldon’s most pivotal essays that discuss his alternative proposals for paying for ’public’ services rather than through coercive taxation. Specifically, Seldon focuses on the varied use of vouchers and the choices people have regarding purchasing or receiving such public services as health care and education. The recurring theme, as noted in Colin Robinson’s introduction, is that "non-market provision, financed by taxpayers, leads to a fatal disconnection

Author: David Ricardo
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: vol, miscellany, biographical
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 086597974X
ISBN-13: 9780865979741

This volume is a collection of personal correspondence and first-person recollections that focus on Ricardo’s life outside of his political economic endeavours. These missives concern the aspects of Ricardo’s life that surround his character, his amiable and generous nature, his successful business dealings, and his personal relationships. It includes a memoir written by one of his brothers that sheds light about his family, his formative youth, and his education. There are chapters on his entrance into the stock market as a mere teenager and records of his meteoric climb within th

Authors:Gordon Tullock, James M. Buchanan,
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: vol, consent, calculus
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1999-08-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0865972176
ISBN-13: 9780865972179

"The Calculus of Consent" was co-authored by Buchanan with Gordon Tullock, with whom Buchanan collaborated on many books and academic enterprises throughout their careers. As Robert D Tollison states in the foreword: (this book) is a radical departure from the way democracies conduct their business. The "Calculus" is already a book for the ages. This classic work analyses the political organisation of a free society through the lens of the economic organisation of society. The authors acknowledge their unease as economists in analysing the political organisation, but they take the risk of forg

Author: ADAM SMITH
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: correspondence, adam, smith, vol, works, glasgow, nature, causes, wealth, nations, inquiry
Number of Pages: 1094
Published: 1982-03-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0865970084
ISBN-13: 9780865970083

First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith’s "Wealth of Nations" sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing and the division of labor to monetary, tax, trade, and other government policies that affect economic behavior. Throughout he offers seminal arguments for free trade, free markets, and limited government. Criticising mercantilists who sought to use the state to increase their nations’ supply of precious metals, Smith points out that a nation’s wealth s