Books

“Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation” by Professor Allen C. Guelzo of Gettysburg College, that sets Lincoln in the context of the world in which he lived.

Ayn Rand was ridiculed and derided for years by journalists like Victor Navasky for her evaluation of Song of Russia. But she was completely correct.

An Excerpt from the first draft of the Introduction to Andrew Bernstein’s forthcoming book The Capitalist Manifesto.

In The Theory of Money and Credit, Mises shows that money was originally developed by men in a market setting.

This is the riveting story of a company that dared to develop a revolutionary method of steel-production, which the rest of the industry had dismissed as too risky.

This book is an uncompromising argument for freedom in the realm of banking.

The radical nature of this book is fully captured by its title. For it is Gunderson's theme that wealth is created—not stolen, exploited or simply stumbled upon. He argues that creative thinking is what underlies the act of creating wealth. To defend this thesis, the...

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.