Show off your [ever-expanding] library of Austrian books.
These are the ones I have in physical form, while I have nearly every book in the Mises.org library on my eBook reader.
History of Economic Thought - Economic Thought Before Adam Smith
Man, Economy, and State with Power & Market
America's Great Depression
Human Action
Theory of Money and Credit
Socialism
Theory and History
Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles
End the Fed
PIG to the Great Depression and the New Deal
Meltdown
The Privatization of Roads and Highways
Democracy - The God That Failed
Crisis and Leviathan
Defending the Undefendable
The School of Salamanca
A Tiger by the Tail (original first edition)
History of Economic Thought - Classical Economists
This is fun! I had like every Ayn Rand book but gave them all away and never got them back! I hope thats a good thing...
I had more on my Kindle but usually archive stuff when I am done with it. Can't remember what all I've read...
P.S. Is "The Driver" any good? I hadn't really started it yet. Caught up in Human Action atm..
(Those are my precious Loeb Classical Library books making a cameo appearance on the top shelf.)
My collection of Austrian books isn't as impressive as Le Master's, but it consists of...
A huge proportion of my "reading", however, is in audio form. Besides these I've listened to Block's Defending the Undefendable, Woods' Meltdown and Rothbard's Conceived in Liberty, Ethics of LIberty, For a New Liberty, The Case Against the Fed, What Has Government Done to Our Money, Economics 101, and much more. I've also read Rothbard's entire History of Money and Banking in the United States and countless of his monographs online.
Four of the books pictured above (Menger's Principles, de Soto's MBCEC, Rothbard's MESwPM, and Hazlitt's FotNE) sit on my shelf courtesy of the generosity of Jeff Tucker, and his eagerness to support writers who are just starting out. Thank you again Mr. Tucker!
filc:Is "The Driver" any good? I hadn't really started it yet
The Driver is fantastic.
filc:I had like every Ayn Rand book but gave them all away and never got them back
My mom currently has my Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Also not included in my library pic are The Ethics of Liberty, which one of my little brothers is borrowing, and Economics in One Lesson, which another little brother is reading.
liberty student:The Driver is fantastic.
I have it on my Reader too. I'm considering putting it near the top of my long queue of books. You ought to put a review of it on Amazon.com if you're up to it, liberty student.
At first, I kept a list of all my WWII books (and still do), and now I keep a list of all my economics/politics/libertarianism books. As you may notice, they are not all so "liberty" (Marx, Keynes and Stiglitz, e.g.).
Lilburne:Besides these I've listened to Block's Defending the Undefendable,
Ha! I just finished reading it on my Kindle. Very thought provoking, fantastic!
I guess I'll have to toss Driver up next on my list.
Lilburne:Those are my precious Loeb Classical Library books making a cameo appearance on the top shelf
Wowzers. I want those! Do you have every volume? I'm always on the lookout for an affordable auction of it on eBay. I also desperately want the complete Franklin Library. I found the complete OED 2nd Ed sealed for next to nothing and that's where my AE books currently rest atop.
I thought I was the only sicko who enjoyed being walled in by books. =p
Le Master:Wowzers. I want those! Do you have every volume?
Oh no, not even close. The Loeb Library numbers in the hundreds; I only have 15. :( Most of my Greco-Roman reading is with the much more affordable Penguin Classics. But I love those too: beautiful covers, and superb introductions and footnotes.
Le Master:I'm always on the lookout for an affordable auction of it on eBay.
The husband of one of my co-workers teaches Greek and Latin, and he got his school to buy the ENTIRE set for his classroom!
Le Master:I found the complete OED 2nd Ed sealed for next to nothing
Way to keep an eye out!
filc: I thought I was the only sicko who enjoyed being walled in by books. =p
It's nice to see you guys owning a personal library, which I don't.
Anybody has genuine information on Hazlitt's library? One of my friends said he (Hazlitt) had over 10,000 books in his personal library.
I'm not nearly organized enough to keep my books on an actual physical bookshelf together; however, I did find and start using Shelfari because of my slowly-expanding Austrian library. Seems like the perfect site for the people on here.
Life and reality are neither logical nor illogical; they are simply given. But logic is the only tool available to man for the comprehension of both.—Ludwig von Mises
Life and reality are neither logical nor illogical; they are simply given. But logic is the only tool available to man for the comprehension of both.
I attempted to sign into Shelfari, and it turns out that I registered two years ago. I didn't even realize it. The site and concept seem pretty neat. I think I may set up my library on there over the next couple of days.
I just created my own shelfari, although I can see it getting very old very fast. :P http://www.shelfari.com/o1514465113/shelf
I would take a picture of my book shelf but it might scare some people.
'Men do not change, they unmask themselves' - Germaine de Stael
Laughing Man: I would take a picture of my book shelf but it might scare some people.
Oh, come on. We can handle it.
filc: This is fun! I had like every Ayn Rand book but gave them all away and never got them back! I hope thats a good thing...
I cant understand why The Creature From Jekyll Island isnt more hyped than it is.
It might be one of the best, if not the best, books on the Fed.
The power of Christ compels you!
I would post mine but...Some books are on my iPod in audiobook form, others on the computer. Right now I have: America's Great Depression, For a New Liberty, What Has Government Done to Our Money?, and Atlas Shrugged. I'm about halfway through For a New Liberty.
Laughing Man:I would take a picture of my book shelf but it might scare some people.
I bet it's mostly socialist/commie books. :D
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
Seph: I cant understand why The Creature From Jekyll Island isnt more hyped than it is. It might be one of the best, if not the best, books on the Fed.
People are too quick to tag conspiracy like.
I enjoyed it though!
Daniel: Laughing Man:I would take a picture of my book shelf but it might scare some people. I bet it's mostly socialist/commie books. :D
You've discovered my secret shame.
Top to bottom, Left to Right:
A Manual for Writers [ Basic citation book for Turabian style ] by Kate Turabian
Philosophy of History by MC Lemon [ A good book for understanding how history is interpreted ]
50 Key Thinkers on History by Marine Warrington [ Again a good book on how history is interpreted ]
The Inferno by Dante [ I just like his writing style ]
The Tailor King by Anthony Arthur [ A book on the history of Munster and the Anabaptist communists who took it over ]
The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn [ On the history of post millenarian medieval movements that were usually communist ]
Strange and Fascinating Facts About Presidents by Charle Reichblum [ I like odd facts about presidents ]
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffry Chaucer [ People make scratch their heads to this but I think it is a good portrayal of social status in medieval Britain ]
Becoming a Historian by the American Historical Association [ Just a nice book on the hoops you have to jump through to become an official historian ]
The Socialist Tradition by Alexander Gray [ My favorite and I think my oldest book [1943] on the history of Socialism ]
The Triumph of Conservatism by Gabriel Kolko [ We know this one, no explanation necessary ]
The Moulding of Communists by Frank Meyer [ An interesting book on the psychological mentality of cadre communists while working in the communist party]
The Breakdown of Socialism by Arthur Shadwell [ I have yet to read but from what I gather a history of Socialist parties and movements ]
The History of Money and Banking by Rothbard [ self-explanatory ]
Fire on the Minds of Men by James Billington [ A history of revolutionary movements especially socialists ]
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams [ self-explanatory ]
The Origins of the First World War by James Joll [ self-explanatory ]
Perilous Times by Geoffrey Stone [ A history of dissident speech in US politics ]
Political Pilgrims by Paul Hollander [ A history of political theorists and journalists who went to communist countries during their hey-day and reported on their situations, people like Lincoln Steffens ]
The Revolution by Ron Paul [ self-explanatory ]
The Articles of Confederation & Constitution
Second Row
The Great Anarchists by Paul Eltzbacher [ I can't recommend this book whole-heartedly because it is somewhat wishy washy. The author decides to put himself in the book. Though it does cover Bakunin, Proudhon, Stirner, Spencer, Godwin and Kroptkin. You just have to get over the first chapter which is the author's views]
Who Killed the Constitution? by Thomas Woods [ self-explanatory ]
The First Anarchist Manifesto by Anselme Bellegarrigue [ A wonderful pamphlet by a French individualist anarchist who lived during the French revolution. Highly recommend this work ]
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek [ self-explanatory ]
Leading Economic Controversies of 1996 [ I keep this around because Greenspan has an article in it about monetary policy ]
The Myth of the Robber Barons by Folsom [ self-explanatory ]
The Anti-Capitalist Mentality by Mises [ self-explanatory ]
Nation, State, and Economy by Mises [ self-explanatory ]
Designing the Industrial State by James Gilbert [ A history of collectivist planning in the United States from 1890 to 1940 ]
The Development of Economic Doctrine by Alexander Gray [ A history of economic thought by Gray which includes the Austrians. Very good book, the store here has it ]
Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt [ self-explanatory ]
The Invisible Hand of Planning by Guy Alchon [ Another history of collectivist planning specifically in the 1920's ]
FDR's Folly by Jim Powell [ self-explanatory ]
How Capitalism Saved America by DiLorenzo [ self-explanatory ]
The Panic of 1819 by Rothbard [ self-explanatory ]
Our Enemy, The State by Albert Jay Nock [self-explanatory ]
The Basic Works of Aristotle
Animal Farm by Orwell [ self-explanatory ]
1984 by Orwell [ self-explanatory ]
The Left, The Right, & The State by Lew Rockwell [ self-explanatory ]
Propaganda for War by H.C. Peterson [ A history of propagandizing that lead us into WWII ]
Benevolent Assimilation by Stuart Miller [ A history of the Philippine intervention ]
Twelve Against Empire by Robert Beisner [ A history of the Anti-Imperialist League ]
The Decline of American Liberalism by Arthur Ekrich [ self-explanatory ]
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken [ self-explanatory ]
Corporations and the Cold War by David Horowitz [ A collection of essays concerning economic planning during the cold war ]
Third Row:
No Treason by Lysander Spooner [ the book that converted me to anarchism ]
Meltdown by Thomas Woods [ self-explanatory ]
We Who Dared to Say No to War by Thomas Woods & Murry Polner [ self-explanatory ]
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask by Thomas Woods [ self-explanatory ]
Anarchism: A documentary history of Libertarian Ideas volume one by Robert Graham [ A wonderful history of primary source documents written by various anarchists though many are the traditional collectivist type. Still a very good volume and I highly recommend ]
History of Economic Thought volume one and two by Rothbard [ self-explanatory ]
The People's Pottage by Garrett [ self-explanatory ]
For a New Liberty by Rothbard [ self-explanatory ]
Ressessing the Presidency by John Denson [ self-explanatory ]
Capitalism, Socialism, & Democracy by Schumpeter [ It's a first edition all the way from the forties ]
Inclined to Liberty by Carabini [ self-explanatory ]
Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed [ A first hand account of the Boshevik revolution in 1918 in Russia ]
Main Currents of Marxism volume one, two & three by Kolakowski [ probably the definitive work on this history of Marxist movement and its actors ]
The Marx-Engels Reader by Robert Tucker [ The selected works of both Marx and Engels ]
Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx by Robert Tucker [ An account of the philosophical origins on Marx and a biography of his life, very good book but very technical. Not for beginners concerning understanding Marxism ]
Socialism and Communism in Their Practical Application by Reverend Kaufmann [ A history of the application of socialist thought with movements ]
A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End by Peter Kenez [ kind of self-explanatory ]
Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest [ A history of the great famines experience by collectivist farming in Russia ]
The Great Terror by Robert Conquest [ A history of Stalin's reign of terror in Russia ]
And finally my Kindle DX with a nifty Ian Fleming Dr. No screen saver.
Laughing Man:And finally my Kindle DX with a nifty Ian Fleming Dr. No screen saver.
Do you like your DX? I'm kind of disappointed it came out the day after I bought my Kindle2. I was never able to get it a fair assessment.
filc: Laughing Man:And finally my Kindle DX with a nifty Ian Fleming Dr. No screen saver. Do you like your DX? I'm kind of disappointed it came out the day after I bought my Kindle2. I was never able to get it a fair assessment.
Oh yes, I love it. Just click and drag the Mises pdf's. No converting necessary and a nice big screen.
Laughing man and everyone else, you should post reviews on Amazon of the Austrian books you have. I made a post recently about it: http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/11587.aspx
This is my library. I also have Omnipresent State And Total War but I couldn't find it.
I think a lot of Austrian libraries would be as scary, if such diverse books as writing manuals and Dante qualified as Austrian.
Lilburne:I think a lot of Austrian libraries would be as scary, if such diverse books as writing manuals and Dante qualified as Austrian.
Dante....was a late...scholastic..yes..a late scholastic.
Within arm's reach her in the living room:
In my car for some reason:
For some reason, No Treason is in the spare bedroom.
The "library" upstairs consists of (sorry, no picture right now!)
I think I have a few more squirreled away or on loan right now that I can't think of off-hand.
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"The issue is always the same, the government or the market. There is no third solution."
That is a nice library. What is your profession?
Let's see.. I just started collecting physical books. I didn't get into Austrian Economics or Libertarians until the middle of 2009. But these are the books I bought this year. I know not all of these are Austrian...
Economics in One Lesson, Hazlitt
Block: The Privatization of Roads and Highways, Defending the Undefendable
Rothbard: The Ethics of Liberty, America's Great Depression, What has Government done with our Money?, For a New Liberty
Rand: Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, Capitalism: Unknown Ideal, The Virtue of Selfishness, Anthem
Let's Abolish Government, Spooner
The Creature of Jekyll Island, G. Edward Griffin
Democracy: The God That Failed, Hoppe
Recarving Rushmore & The Voluntary City, Independent Institute
New Libertarian Manifesto, EK3
The Agorist Class Theory
More Guns, Less Crime, John R. Lott Jr. (awesome book)
The Market for Liberty, Tannehill
Anti-Trust Policy, D.T. Armentaro
The Nature of Man and His Government, Robert LeFevre
Human Action, Ludwiq von Mises
Healing our World in an Age of Aggression, Mary J. Ruwart
A Woman's Right to Pornography & Liberty for Women, Wendy McElroy
And various Freedomain books.
Paul: The Revolution & End the Fed
Crash Proof 2.0, Peter Schiff
Meltdown, Thomas E. Woods Jr
You observe, but you do not see.
Justin Laws:A Woman's Right to Pornography & Liberty for Women, Wendy McElroy
I've been meaning to get my hands on something by McElroy. Is she a good author?
Laughing Man: Justin Laws:A Woman's Right to Pornography & Liberty for Women, Wendy McElroy I've been meaning to get my hands on something by McElroy. Is she a good author?
She's not bad. I managed to finish both books, anyway. Liberty for Women is more of a book of essays by various people. She has a couple of essays in there. She also edited it. The Pornography one.. that was an interesting look into the world of porn from a woman's view, was good, tbh.
Justin Laws:She's not bad. I managed to finish both books, anyway. Liberty for Women is more of a book of essays by various people. She has a couple of essays in there. She also edited it. The Pornography one.. that was an interesting look into the world of porn from a woman's view, was good, tbh.
I find it interesting that she is a feminist. You don't see many libertarian feminist writers, so it kind of intrigued me. Thanks for the review.
Laughing Man: Justin Laws:She's not bad. I managed to finish both books, anyway. Liberty for Women is more of a book of essays by various people. She has a couple of essays in there. She also edited it. The Pornography one.. that was an interesting look into the world of porn from a woman's view, was good, tbh. I find it interesting that she is a feminist. You don't see many libertarian feminist writers, so it kind of intrigued me. Thanks for the review.
I wonder if she believes in one of the main tenets of feminism; that women are paid lesser wages because they are women.
LM, I think you'd really enjoy her audiobooks. She's co-written a number of them with Ralph Raico.
Lilburne:Ralph Raico.
Sold.
my economics library (in physical format at least) is sparse. I have the essentials: the three major works of economics that have impacted policy and their austrian based refutations. I have Smith's Wealth of Nations next to Rothbard's history of economic thought, Marx's Das Kapital next to Mises' Socialism, and Keynes' General Theory next to Failure of the New Economics by Hazlitt. The rest I read in electronic form.
nazgulnarsil:Marx's Das Kapital next to Mises' Socialism
I think may constitute a violation of the NAP right there