NationStates Jolt Archive

Economics

Antitrust: The Case for Repeal by Dominick T Armentano
Making America Poorer: The Cost of Labor Law by Morgan O. Reynolds
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality by Ludwig von Mises
Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises
How Capitalism Saved America : The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present by Thomas DiLorenzo
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II by Murray N. Rothbard
The Case Against the Fed by Murray N. Rothbard
America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard
Taxscam: How the Internal Revenue Service Swindles You and What You Can Do About It by Alan Stang
The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax by Sheldon Richman
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One by Thomas Sowell
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
Essays in Positive Economics by Milton Friedman
Gold, Freedom, and Free Markets: Economic Philosophy for Prudent Investors by Hans F. Sennholz, Mark Skousen, and Murray N. Rothbard
Basic Economics by Clarence B. Carson
Private Property and Political Control by various authors
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand

Education

Education: Free & Compulsory by Murray N. Rothbard
Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail by Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt
None Dare Call it Education by John Stormer
The Harsh Truth About Public Schools by Bruce N. Shortt
The Homeschooling Revolution by Isabel Lyman
Strengths of Their Own by Brian D. Ray

Other

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington by Stephen Mansfield
The Black Book of Communism by Stephane Courtois, etc.
Why Communism Kills: The Legacy of Karl Marx by Frederick Charles Schwarz
An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard by Justin Raimondo
Speaking of Liberty by Lew Rockwell
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas Woods
The Anti-Chomsky Reader by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, etc.
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates by Ralph Ketcham
That Every Man Be Armed by Stephen P. Halbrook
More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well by Walter E. Williams

Recommended by other NSers
Parliament of Whores (recommended by Melkor Unchained)
The Economics of Public Issues (recommended by Melkor Unchained)
Man, Economy, and the State (recommended by Krakatao)
Guns, Germs and Steel (recommended by Ragbralbur)
Atlas Shrugged (recommended by Ragbralbur)
The Bell Curve (recommended by Ragbralbur)
The Cash Nexus (recommended by Ragbralbur)
Democracy: The God That Failed (suggested by BAAWA)
The Myth of National Defense (suggested by BAAWA)
The Libertarian Idea and Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice (suggested by BAAWA)
Defending the Undefendable (suggested by BAAWA)
The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories (suggested by BAAWA)
From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation (suggested by BAAWA)
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (suggested by Leonstein)

If I may be so bold, I'd add Parliament of Whores by PJ O'Rourke and [from what I can tell so far] The Economics of Public Issues by Douglas C. North and Roger Leroy Miller.

Let's see.... no I don't think I'll read any of those. But thank you anyway.

If I may be so bold, I'd add Parliament of Whores by PJ O'Rourke and [from what I can tell so far] The Economics of Public Issues by Douglas C. North and Roger Leroy Miller.

What are they about?

What are they about?
Government, presumably. I haven't read them, but the titles sound like that. The latter one probably is an economic description, and the first either economic or historical (or a combination).

You might also want to add Man, Economy and the State by Murray Rothbard. It is basically the sequel to Human Action

You might also want to add Man, Economy and the State by Murray Rothbard. It is basically the sequel to Human Action

Will do. Thanks.

Moby Dick (in order to learn about groupthink and lost causes)

*files this under "so cliché, I stopped reading after two titles"*

*files this under "so cliché, I stopped reading after two titles"*

Fass, you have to read as many varied books as you can - or how will you be able to comfortably diss someone else's political thought.

Or, why do I keep Das Kapital on my living room table?

Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Bell Curve - Can't remember...
The Cash Nexus - Can't remember...

If I may be so bold, I'd add Parliament of Whores by PJ O'Rourke and [from what I can tell so far] The Economics of Public Issues by Douglas C. North and Roger Leroy Miller.

Parliment of Whores was great! I love PJ O'Rourke.

Moby Dick (in order to learn about groupthink and lost causes)

I read this too about 15 yrs ago. Its a tough read. You really have to want to read it.

What are they about?

PJ Orourke is a very clever political satirist with a great sense of humor. A friend of mine is a lawyer and hangs out with him when he's in NY. I havent met him yet, but would like to.

If I may be so bold, I'd add Parliament of Whores by PJ O'Rourke and [from what I can tell so far] The Economics of Public Issues by Douglas C. North and Roger Leroy Miller.

Haven't read the second, but Parliament of Whores is derfinately a good read.

Lewrockwellia, it's a look at the US govenment by a humorist. It's a biting critique of the many problems. The signature quote is " Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

Haven't read the second, but Parliament of Whores is derfinately a good read.

Lewrockwellia, it's a look at the US govenment by a humorist. It's a biting critique of the many problems. The signature quote is " Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."


Off the top of my head, I would suggest any book by Jack London and Ernest Hemmingway. I've read all or most, some twice. All good, all classics.

just looking at the list of books makes my head hurt... :(
i perfer the mostly fantasy and sci-fi books...sometimes reading a different genre for fun but some my favorite authors would have to be Terry Brooks, Douglas Adams, Philip Pullman, Dan Brown....and of course lets not forget Max Barry

Off the top of my head, I would suggest any book by Jack London and Ernest Hemmingway. I've read all or most, some twice. All good, all classics.

Yep, those are good 'ns. I even like London's socialist screeds, and that's saying a lot from a good hard cap like me. ;)

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Democracy: The God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Myth of National Defense ed. by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Libertarian Idea and Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice by Jan Narveson
Defending the Undefendable by Walter Block
The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories ed. by John V. Denson
From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation by David Ramsey Steele

side note: I've met all of the authors/editors I've mentioned, and some that Lewrockwellia mentioned (including Lew himself).

Lew, I love your signature. I've been toying with putting the same thing in mine for some time now. Great stuff.

Lew, I love your signature. I've been toying with putting the same thing in mine for some time now. Great stuff.

Thanks! :D

For Economics, maybe a serious book for a change.

"Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy" by Joseph Schumpeter

How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World by Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: By, Jared Diamond.

Good stuff, just finished reading it.