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Pls. recommend book on Austrian School Economics primer

Submitted by turling on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 16:29
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I want to learn more about the Austrian School of Economics and ask you smart people what books should I begin reading. Will someone give me some direction?
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The Classics for intro to the Austrian school are listed below

Submitted by Anti_Bernanke on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 17:44.

... but let me recommend Economics for Real People: An introduction to the Austrian School by Gene Callahan (2004) as an extremely accessible read that does a great job explaining the fundamentals with updated examples.

Just a plug too for Murray Rothbard, one of the giants. When I first read Rothbard I thought "whoa" - it really challenged me. And then the more I read and thought about it the more I realized he was right.

Start with Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat.

Submitted by jcr@mac.com on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 17:13.

Economics in One Lesson:

http://jim.com/econ/

The Law:

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

That will give you a good basis of theory. For specifics of how disasters like the first great depression were caused and why they went on so long, see Murray Rothbard's works.

-jcr

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"The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes people neglect the far more important task of world-proofing the child." -- Hugh Daniel

I will recommend ones I have found enlightening ...

Submitted by galtgulch on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 17:08.

I became aware of the Austrian School of economics when I read book reviews of several of the works of Ludwig von Mises in The Objectivist Newsletter which is still available:

http://tinyurl.com/3hhqhy

That is the bookstore on the www.aynrand.org website of the Ayn Rand Institute. I searched there for books by von Mises himself and found none.

So your best bet is to go to www.mises.org where you will find all of the works of Ludwig von MIses. But his magnum opus is Human Action which might be intimidating because it is huge. I found him to be much more accessible by reading his essays in Planning for Freedom and Economic Freedom and Interventionism which is an Anthology of Articles and Essays by Ludwig von Mises.

You will also find books by Murray Rothbard at the www.mises.org site

Here is a link to the Lew Rockwell site. Rockwell was a student of Rothbard and there are links on his site to many articles written by Rothbard including an introduction to Ron Paul's book on Gold, entitled Ron Paul: A most unusual politician:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard-lib.html

The hall mark of the writing of Ayn Rand, Rothbard, von Mises and Ron Paul is their lucidity.

I would recommend Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal and Atlas Shrugged by Rand as has Ron Paul.

I know you asked specifically for an introduction to Austrian Economics and I am sure you will find the essays of Ludwig von Mises and anything and everything by him and Rothbard to be worth reading.

Have fun.

Wm

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine" Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged p731

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"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine" Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged p731

Your need is a poor trade for my value. Down with the Looters.

Submitted by Ragnar D on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 17:13.

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"

Words to LIVE by.

"Victory for liberty! That is our goal, and nothing less. -- Ron Paul, December 17, 2007"

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Ron Paul is my President.

If you want even more then consider ...

Submitted by stillwater on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 17:04.

the Mises Institute Home Study Course in Austrian Economics.

http://www.mises.org/store/Mises-Institute-Home-Study-Course...

get..

Submitted by ctspectator on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 16:48.

The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle -

http://www.mises.org/store/Austrian-Theory-of-the-Trade-Cycl...

The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard -

http://www.mises.org/store/Product.aspx?ProductId=238

Economics in One lesson by Henry Hazzlitt -

http://www.mises.org/store/Economics-in-One-Lesson-P33.aspx

You can listen to some great audio books on the Mises site-

http://www.mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=85

C4L has some links to the mises institute online books

Submitted by stillwater on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 16:50.

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/edu/economics.php

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Essentials of Economics by Faustino Ballve

If the video interviews for Economics in One Lesson do not work go here.
http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=115

check these out

Submitted by e_goldstein on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 16:42.

http://mises.org/literature.aspx

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/

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Economics in One Lesson by

Submitted by futureinmind on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 16:38.

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt