General

Re: Your Austrian Library

Marko — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:51:43 GMT

Posting my library (actually a shelf) in the hopes of ressurecting this classic thread:

Re: Your Austrian Library

AdrianHealey — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:18:05 GMT

Then I might as well add this picture:

Re: Your Austrian Library

DanielMuff — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:15:34 GMT

Nice, Jeremiah. I've attended two Mises Circles and have gotten every speaker at those events to sign my of The Case Against the Fed.

Re: Your Austrian Library

Jeremiah Dyke — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:06:07 GMT

Here are some autographs from Mises University

Re: Your Austrian Library

Jeremiah Dyke — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:03:03 GMT

Re: Your Austrian Library

fancyshirtman — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:54:58 GMT

Re: Your Austrian Library

AdrianHealey — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:22:01 GMT

Rcder:

Wow AdrianHealey, that's quite the collection; on one of the pictures it looks like your shelf is bowing in! That Soviet textbook sounds interesting. Is there an English translation on the Internet by any chance? I can't imagine what a social science course in a communist nation would be like.

I'll have to post my collection some time tomorrow. For fiction, I have an embarassing amount of Stephen King books (he was the first author that really got me into reading), but my nonfict
Rcder:

Wow AdrianHealey, that's quite the collection; on one of the pictures it looks like your shelf is bowing in! That Soviet textbook sounds interesting. Is there an English translation on the Internet by any chance? I can't imagine what a social science course in a communist nation would be like.

I'll have to post my collection some time tomorrow. For fiction, I have an embarassing amount of Stephen King books (he was the first author that really got me into reading), but my nonfiction collection has been bolstered by the F.A. Hayek collection. The unfortunate reality of soul-crushing high school academia has been keeping me from delving to deep into it, however.

It's an old cupboard (<= is this the correct word?). ;)

Well; I have no idea wether or not there is an English translation. The book is called - if translated - 'Textbook Political Economy' so googling it isn't really helpful for obvious reasons. I got it at our local left wing book store - which also has like 5 non-leftwing books: one of Friedman, Tyler Cowen, Adam Smith and 2 more. Next to the 3 shelfs of Marx/Lenin/Stalin/Che. :p The book - in it's translated version - actually looks like any 'normal' economist (using verbal logic! :p) textbook. The chapters are in a logical order and at the end of each chapter there is a summary and all.

ion collection has been bolstered by the F.A. Hayek collection. The unfortunate reality of soul-crushing high school academia has been keeping me from delving to deep into it, however.

Re: Your Austrian Library

Michael J Green — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:49:54 GMT

Damn Healey, I'm envious. Ditto for Jonathan's, though I've been following his purchases at economicthought.

I'll post a picture of my collection once the last of my recent orders arrive. I'm waiting on Competition and Currency by Larry White, The Fluttering Veil by Leland Yeager and Choice, Contract, Consent: A Restatement of Liberalism by Anthony de Jasay. I've been waiting on the first two for a while now; the USPS seems determined to keep me from reading about free banking.

Re: Your Austrian Library

Rcder — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:33:14 GMT

Wow AdrianHealey, that's quite the collection; on one of the pictures it looks like your shelf is bowing in! That Soviet textbook sounds interesting. Is there an English translation on the Internet by any chance? I can't imagine what a social science course in a communist nation would be like.

I'll have to post my collection some time tomorrow. For fiction, I have an embarassing amount of Stephen King books (he was the first author that really got me into reading), but my nonfiction collection has been bolstered by the F.A. Hayek collection. The unfortunate reality of soul-crushing high school academia has been keeping me from delving to deep into it, however.

Re: Your Austrian Library

AdrianHealey — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:13:23 GMT

I should sort that out, I know.

Re: Your Austrian Library

AdrianHealey — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:09:33 GMT

168873_10150122303002160_504907159_7895711_2162351_n.jpg

Top of my shelf. The very to is just some random general interest. (US history for dummies, how to give presentations, a reprint and translation of an economics text book used in the Soviet Union (first published in the '50), use of logic, black swan, history of philosophy, that kind of things.

Second and third shelf: libertarian supreme. Some Cato publications ('From mutual aid to the welfare state', 'libertarian reader'), some Mises (Hayek, Kirzner, After Liberalism, enterprise of the law), some general ('Law and Revolution'), some liberty fund (de jouvenel), ...

My fourth, fifth and sixth shelf.

Fourth is more of the same: Rand, Kirzner, a whole bunch of Mises, some Rothbard, Anarchy and the law, Thomas Sowell, 'Norms of Liberty', etc.

Also interesting: 'the anarchical society' (political science).

Final shelf: first part 'leftovers' (some marxist stuf), than, starting like the 7th book: everything I'm 'currently' sort of reading/working with (mostly for my mastersthesis. it's not just that, but certainly this): Ostrom, Palmer, Beito, study guides to HA and MES, Vernon Smith, ...)

My printed documents: mostly articles from the journal of libertarian studies. Also: Capitalism (Reisman) and a random sociology book, which I thought was interesting so I kept it.

I'm a proud daddy. ^^

Re: Your Austrian Library

Jonathan M. F. Catalán — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:48:30 GMT

I'm still in the process... a very long process.

Re: Your Austrian Library

Hard Rain — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:44:01 GMT

Wow, an amazing collection, Mr. Catalan. Have you read them all?

I would love to spend six months locked in a room with that bookcase!

Re: Your Austrian Library

Jonathan M. F. Catalán — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:23:38 GMT

I'll indulge the gravedig, and post my updated econ/poli.sci. library (what it looked like a year ago is posted around here somewhere),

Re: Your Austrian Library

Blueline976 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:49:11 GMT

Grave dig, yes?

Just some recent additions since Christmas:

Democracy: The God that Failed, Human Action (w/ study guide), Theory and History

Also got The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark and Contact by Carl Sagan.

So here is my current library:

An Introduction to Economic Reasoning by David Gordon

Man, Economy, and State (with Power and Market), Scholar's Edition by Murray N. Rothbard

Human Action, Scholar's Edition by Ludwig von Mises

Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig von Mises

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray N. Rothbard

Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Tom Woods

Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture by Thom Hartmann

The Structure of Argument by Annette T. Rottenberg

Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking by Merrilee H. Salmon

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin

Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard

Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School by Gene Callahan

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Theory and History by Ludwig von Mises

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

Walden; Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written By Himself by Frederick Douglass

Self-reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan by William M. Fowler, Jr.

The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written By Himself (w/ new introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) by Frederick Douglass