Category Archives: Books

New Translation of Cantillon’s Essai

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Jonathan Finegold Catalán

The new translation of Cantillon’s Essai is finally available through the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Continue reading →

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Robert Higgs on the post-1865 American Economy

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Jonathan Finegold Catalán

If you are looking for a great mainstream account of the U.S. economy between 1965 and 1914, look no further than Robert Higgs’s “The Transformation of the American Economy”, published in 1971 when Higgs had not yet discovered the Austrian school. Continue reading →

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The Synthetic A Priori and What It Means For Economics

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Mattheus von Guttenberg

Immanuel Kant, one of history’s great philosophers, created perhaps a larger paradigm in the course of philosophy than he himself realized. While famous for his Categorical Imperative, Kant’s true claim to fame was his discovery into the nature of knowledge … Continue reading →

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The Blessings of Destruction

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Mattheus von Guttenberg

From Part II, Chapter III of Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics In One Lesson” Chapter III The Blessings of Destruction So we have finished with the broken window. An elementary fallacy. Anybody, one would think, would be able to avoid it after … Continue reading →