Books

Economic Policy is a marvelous introduction to economics—and to one of the greatest economists of all time.

The theme of Schoeck’s book is that envy is man’s most destructive emotion, and that societies which enshrine envy remain backward and undeveloped.

The author, a former investigative reporter, shows that the agency has virtually unlimited authority to invade your privacy, seize your wealth, ruin your reputation and generally make your life miserable.

This illuminating new study of the history of American industry from 1840 to 1920 identifies two opposite types of businessmen.

Blacks are too often unwilling to accept individual responsibility for their lives and to exert individual initiative to create opportunities for success.

Hazlitt’s book remains the supreme debunker of the Keynesian system.

These essays comprise a Mises “candy sampler,” to complement the more enduring intellectual banquet he offers in his treatises.

Despite its possibly misleading title, Trashing the Planet is a tightly argued, well-written antidote to environmentalist disinformation, and a defense of reason, technology and, indirectly, capitalism.

Every page of this book stands as a decisive refutation of the “Club of Rome” and “Limits to Growth” schools of Malthusian economics.

Scott Gardner made the mistake of becoming a landlord in New York City without realizing the inhuman treatment he would receive by the rent control bureaucracy.

This book is must reading for anyone who wants in-depth knowledge of how the PLO operates and what its sources of support—material and moral—are.

In spite of minor flaws, Kimball reveals the monstrous Irrationality of those who shape academia today.

What Illiberal Education describes—though the author does not put it this way—is the official end of individualism on the American campus.

This is an intellectual autobiography of Mises, written near the half-way point of his productive years (1940).

This is a fresh, extremely thoughtful biography of the Founding Father whom Thomas Jefferson called “the greatest man in the world.”

“Contrary to conventional wisdom, the alternative to state regulation is not a regulatory void, but a range of voluntary arrangements.”

The heart of Professor Kirzner’s argument is that every discovery of a new opportunity is the appropriation of that which had not existed before a human mind had seen the potential in that object. And, hence, the profit earned by bringing that opportunity into existence justly belongs to the creator and discoverer.