We have a slew of great new books added to literature
My personal favorite first, by the most forgotten of all the Austrians: Common Sense Economics, by L. Albert Hahn. Here is an excellent presentation of the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle, which Hahn in his day (40s and 50s) regarded as common sense as compared with the wacky and upside down world of countercyclical policy. He is extremely articulate here, following up on Hayek’s triangles and foreshadowing Garrison. This is a treasure – yesterday impossible to find and today everywhere at once. It reads like it was written last week.
We also have:
Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State, by Melchior Palyi
Studies in Economic Nationalism, by Michael A. Heilperin (similarly obscure but also great)
The Gold Standard and Its Future, by T.E. Gregory (a Rothbard favorite)
Money: It’s Connexion with Rising and Falling Prices, by Edwin Cannan (part of a campaign to unleash Cannan on the world)
Wealth: A Brief Explanation of the Causes of Economic Welfare, by Edwin Cannan
Property in a Human Economy, ed. Samuel L. Blumenfeld (some outstanding pieces here)
Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit, by Frank H. Knight (amazing that we didn’t have this up already)
Tariffs: A Study in Method, T.E.G. Gregory
Thank you to everyone who made these suggestions.
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We can make suggestions?
Well, shoot.
Ohh, yes! As I’m currently studying Bastiat, my vote is for Dean Russell’s Frédéric Bastiat: Ideas and Influences (FEE, 1969).
Kudos, as always, to the Mises Institute for making Austrian economic and classical liberal literature so readily accessible.
This is great. Thanks as always to LvMI folks for doing this.
It would be even greater if these files were in ePub format at some time in the future.
http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=MediaType&Id=9
we are getting there
Hi Jeff, is there any chance of the Mises Institute publishing Common Sense Economics? I would personally love to study this book with my copy of MES after completing Human Action.
right. look for it next week.
Jeffrey,
Thanks for everything you and the Mises Institute have done and are doing. My publishing dreams have already come true with the Mises Institute releases of Hayek’s Prices and Production and Collectivist Economic Planning. I never thought that would happen.
A request in case it makes a difference: more on the French Liberal School. In particular Charles Dunoyer and especially Charles Comte – Traite de Legislation.
Thanks!
I join Sag in expressing a desire to see more on the French School and even the Physiocrats. That may be more a job for Liberty Fund, though, which is why talk of interrelation between Liberty Fund and the Mises Institute sounds exciting. We ought not forget that Google Books has made lots of great material available that isn’t found on either site.
Since suggestions are solicited, I’d like to see a greater visibility for the works of Peter Thomas Bauer. Those copyrights appear zealously guarded, unfortunately.
I’d also like to see some effort to lend Michael van Notten’s “The Law of the Somalis” greater visibility, some evidence of the book that “turned me Austrian”, Doug Casey’s “The International Man”, some Tibor Machan, and more translations of Hahn’s works (there’s lots to be done here).
I’d like somebody to make Sutton’s three volume “Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development” more available as well as his “Energy: The Created Crisis”, and with Sutton and others in mind, I’d like to see reprints from the 1970s when libertarian literature enjoyed something of a golden age and pop libertarian paperbacks (you know, like Howard Katz’s “The Paper Aristocracy”) were popular. In a related vein, over the course of the week I’ve been reading the book Ed Clark wrote in anticipating his 1980 campaign. The guy was surprisingly solid. No Bob Barr or Wayne Allen Root he.
I add a wish to this fantastic book collection (congratulations to the Mises Institute!): “Mercantilism” by Eli Heckscher.
Other Swedish wishes:
Cassel, Gustav (1903), The Nature and Necessity of Interest.
Cassel, Gustav (1921), The World’s Monetary Problems. London: Constable and Co.
To Mick Rolland:
Please note that most of English-language literature (and a great lot of non-English as well) published prior to circa 1922 is now available on GoogleBooks. For example, “The Nature and Necessity of Interest” is here: http://books.google.com/books?id=QnCjzptYOKUC (and follow the PDF link).
These links will not work in every country due to Google’s specific access policy. However, many books from GoogleBooks are copied to archive.org which is supposed to be accessible from everywhere. So, the same Cassel’s book is here as well: http://www.archive.org/details/naturenecessityo00cassuoft
Yes, Cassel is available though not at 500 dpi as this is – and Google has not been able to do post 1922 material that is already in public domain, simply for lack of means of digitally checking renewals. In other cases, these books simply are not available anywhere to scan apart from specialized dealers.
Thank you so much for the Frank Knight book! I was mortified when after it was referenced in several other articles that I could not find it anywhere. This time I am going to the store tonight and placing an order. Stand and deliver!
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