Ludwig Von Mises

The Man and His Economics

Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics is a collection of Israel M. Kirzners work regarding his mentor, including a monograph on Mises and his work as well as several articles detailing how he impacted the world of economics. Kirzner showcases Mises as not ...

Ludwig von Mises

the man and his economics

Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics is a collection of Israel M. Kirzner's work regarding his mentor, including a monograph on Mises and his work as well as several articles detailing how he impacted the world of economics. Kirzner showcases Mises not ...

Historical Law-Tracts

Historical Law-Tracts is one of the earliest contributions to the Scottish Enlightenment project of a historical science of society. Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782), was an influential Scottish judge, a prolific man of letters, and one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in Scotland ...

Reflections on ethics, freedom, welfare economics, policy, and the legacy of Austrian Economics

Reflections on Ethics, Freedom, Welfare Economics, Policy, and the Legacy of Austrian Economics comprises a variety of Kirzners essays on social thought. Kirzners intellectual interest and theories go beyond market process and entrepreneurship: they encompass several important topics that are vital to the existence of ...

The essence of entrepreneurship and the nature and significance of market process

The Essence of Entrepreneurship and the Nature and Significance of Market Process is a continuation of the discourse started in Kirzners earlier work, Competition and Entrepreneurship, expanding upon his ideas about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial alertness. Essence presents most of the detailed research Kirzner has done ...

The Law of Nations Treated according to the scientific method

Christian Wolff's natural law theory was founded on his rationalist philosophy and metaphysics, which were strongly influenced by the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Like Leibniz, Wolff was convinced that justice and morality were based on universally valid principles of reason and that these ...

Studies on the abuse and decline of reason

text and documents

F. A. Hayek never published the grand project he conceived in a letter to Fritz Machlup in 1939. As described in the introduction, this work would incorporate intellectual history, methodology, and an analysis of social problems, all aimed at shedding light on the consequences of ...

Business cycles. Part II

In the years following its publication, F A Hayeks pioneering work on business cycles was regarded as an important challenge to what was later known as Keynesian macroeconomics. Today, as debates rage on over monetary origins of the current economic and financial crisis, economics are ...

Business cycles. Part I

In the years following its publication, F A Hayeks pioneering work on business cycles was regarded as an important challenge to what was later known as Keynesian macroeconomics. Today, as debates rage on over monetary origins of the current economic and financial crisis, economics are ...

The crisis

a british defense of american rights, 1775-1776

The Crisis was a London weekly published between January 1775 and October 1776. It was the longest-running weekly pamphlet series printed in the British Atlantic world during those years, and it used unusually bold, pithy language. Neither the longevity of the effort nor the colorful ...

Essays by "the free republican"

1784-1786

This is the first modern publication of ten essays published in the popular Boston newspaper The Independent Chronicle, a significant intellectual event in Massachusetts politics. The essays deal primarily with the problem of mixed government in a republic. Lincoln writes, Two distinct and different orders ...

Commentary on Filangieri's work

Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the "Encyclopedie" was collected to not only serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to change the way men think about every aspect of the human and natural worlds. In his celebrated Preliminary Discourse to the ...

Collected works of Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman (1721-1793) was the only founder to sign the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. He served 1,543 days in the Continental Congress and was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration ...

Declaration of Independence in historical context

american state papers, petitions, proclamations and letters of the delegates to the First National Congress

For over a century scholars have analyzed and interpreted the meaning and context of the Declaration of Independence in myriad ways. As Barry Alan Shain points out, “Intellectual historians and political theorists have made every effort to make the Declaration’s theoretically rich second paragraph ...

Early economic thought in Spain, 1177-1740

Early Economic Thought in Spain was published in 1978, and in her Foreword the author mentions that the discussion of long-term inflation in Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries ought to be of interest since “we live in a time of inflation”. The ...

TIMELINE POSTER-Natural Law an enlightment classics series

This full-color, frameable poster features a timeline of historical events and figures surrounding the "Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics" series. Spanning the years 1540 through 1840, it is designed to provide both a visual representation of the period and a broader historical context for the ...

Economic sense and nonsense

reflections from Europe 2008-2012

Economic Sense and Nonsense comprises a collection of sixty essays written by Anthony de Jasay for his monthly column “Reflections from Europe,” on Liberty Fund’s Library of Economics and Liberty website. The articles span the years 2008 to 2012 and focus on economic issues ...

Tocqueville's voyages

the evolution of his ideas and their journey beyond his time

Tocqueville's Voyages is a collection of Newly written essays by some of the most well-known Tocquevillian scholars today. The essays in the fisrt part of the volume explore the development of Tocqueville's thought, his intellectual voyage during his trip to America and while ...

Principles of Equity

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was the complete 'Enlightenment man', concerned with the full spectrum of human knowledge and its social use. However, as a lawyer and, after 1752, as a judge on the Court of Session in Edinburgh, he made many of his most distinctive ...

Social justice and the indian rope trick

Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick presents Anthony de Jasay's writings on liberalism from 2008 to 2012, continuing his Political Philosophy, Clearly and serving as a companion to Economic Sense and Nonsense. The present volume focuses on "the careless use, the misuse, and ...

Notes and recollections

with the historical setting of the Austrian School of Economics

Published for the first time together in one volume is Ludwig von Misess Notes and Recollections with The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics. Written between 1940 and 1941, shortly after he arrived in the United States, Notes and Recollections is in effect ...

Liberal Thought in Argentina, 1837-1940

This is the first compilation of primary sources that document the history and tradition of liberal thought in Argentina throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. With only two exceptions, none of the works have ever been translated into English until now ...