I am painting all the rooms in the house, starting this weekend. My wife knows how I despise painting plus I am missing my Saturday class of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. She was like, "why don't you buy those old men t-shirts? and throw in a few books".
The shirts are a no brainer...what 4 books and only 4 would you buy from Mises.org?
I already own, Economics in One Lesson and Rothbard's Great Depression and all 4 volumes of Conceived in Liberty.
Definately add Theory and History to the list.
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
- Edmund Burke
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Bob Dylan
A lot of the books can be downloaded in pdf form for free in the Literature section of Mises.org.
Some of the books that the Mises Institute does NOT offer for free, but I would recommend you buy are:
"Road to Serfdom" - F. A. Hayek"Democracy: The God That Failed" - Hans-Hermann Hoppe"Meltdown" - Tom Woods"Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism" - Robert A. Pape (not from Mises.org, but a must-read nonetheless)
"Anticapitalist theories share in common an inability to take human nature as it is. Rather than analyzing man as a complex creature, anticapitalist theories tend to focus on what the theorist wishes man to be." - Isaac Morehouse
Economics for Real People was a good book, though if I were you, I'd first look around the free literature section to see which books I would want to get.
Political Atheists Blog
A World in Debt, by Freeman Tilden. Written in 1936.
http://www.amazon.com/World-Debt-Freeman-Tilden/dp/0969157908/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236457395&sr=8-1
I just finished this book. I highly recommend it. It's not Keynesian or Monetarism. It has a classical approach and focuses on the history of debt, debt default and debt repayment. It also looks at the historical relationship between debtors and creditors. In the end the 1980's commentary takes a look at the FDIC, the Federal Reserve and why their operations & existence has turned the stability and prudence of free banking decisions into risk taking and imprudence - leading to debt bubbles and wealth destruction.
# Hans-Hermann Hoppe - Democracy: The God That Failed
# Ludwig von Mises - Socialism
At least these two, absolutely must haves. Maybe A Requiem for Marx edited by Yuri Maltsev.