List of @saifedean's Austrian Economics reading recommendations from his excellent blog post: A Beginner’s Guide to Austrian Economics...
For a general reader looking for an easy and quick read that covers the most important topics in economics and the Austrian perspective on them, it is hard to beat Henry Hazlitt’s Economics In One Lesson. amazon.com/Economics-One-…
If you are interested in a thorough, comprehensive, and systematic treatment of economics, there is no better book than Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State mises.org/library/man-ec… as well as its sequel Power and Market. mises.org/library/power-…
Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action is another great read, and although significantly shorter than Man, Economy and State, Mises’s work might prove a more cumbersome read than Rothbard’s, given that Mises’ work is older, and that his first language was German. mises.org/library/human-…
Menger’s Principles of Economics is the canonical work, of course, but it is almost 150 years old and not the smoothest read for the modern reader. mises.org/library/princi…
For a discussion of money, a good brief layman’s introduction is Murray Rothbard’s What Has Government Done to Our Money? mises.org/library/what-h…
A more technical, although shorter, article, is Rothbard’s The Austrian Theory of Money, which is essential reading in my opinion. mises.org/library/austri…
A more detailed treatment with a grounding in legal theory and history can be found in Jesus Huerta de Soto’s Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles. mises.org/library/money-…
The founding work of Austrian economics on the topic is Menger’s essay On the Origins of Money. mises.org/library/origin…
Mises’ most important work might be The Theory of Money and Credit, which he completed when he was only 30. A century later, many economists have written books on money, but practically nobody has added much that is useful to what Mises wrote. mises.org/library/theory…
Although not an economist or academic, the late Swiss financier Ferdinand Lips has written a masterful volume on monetary history entitled Gold Wars, which was enormously influential in shaping my understanding of the topic amazon.com/Gold-Wars-Batt…
Friedrich Hayek’s Monetary Nationalism and International Stability is a must-read for a sober explanation of the gradual way in which money moved from being a free market institution to a government controlled monopoly mises.org/library/moneta…
An excellent book on political economy and political philosophy is Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s masterpiece Democracy: The God That Failed. amazon.com/Democracy-God-…
The philosophical foundations for Anarcho-capitalism were laid in Murray Rothbard’s masterpiece The Ethics of Liberty. mises.org/library/ethics…
A more popularized treatment of [Anarcho-capitalism] can be found in Rothbard’s For a New Liberty. mises.org/library/new-li…
Hoppe also edited The Myth of National Defense, a good collection of essays on the question of security and defense, and why a government is not needed for these functions, and how a free society can provide them. mises.org/library/myth-n…
An excellent brief treatment of [interest rate manipulation] can be found in Rothbard’s essay Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure. mises.org/library/econom…
A more thorough treatment can be found in the first four chapters of Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression, during which Rothbard also takes to task the alternative excuses of theories presented by various economists. mises.org/library/americ…
Naturally, since business cycles are inseparable from their monetary causes, Jesus Huerta de Soto’s aforementioned Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles, also contains an excellent treatment of this topic. mises.org/library/money-…
Possibly the most eye-opening single paper on economics is [Hayek's] The Use of Knowledge in Society, a brief paper worth re-reading over and over for the insights it contains. econlib.org/library/Essays…
Hayek’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, titled The Pretense of Knowledge, is also very important and a complete demolition of any delusions of scientific respectability any Keynesian economist might harbor. mises.org/library/preten…
Vernon Smith is also extremely important, particularly his distinction between constructivist rationalism and ecological rationalism, which he summarized very well in his Nobel Prize speech Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics. nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/e…
Hayek’s work on the philosophy of science is also extremely important, though not very well-known. His book The Counter-revolution of Science: Studies on the Abuse of Reason will make you reevaluate a lot of the things you have taken for granted mises.org/library/counte…
He has two volumes with eye-opening essays on this topic: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and the History of Ideas. amazon.com/Studies-Philos… & amazon.com/studies-philos…
Perhaps the best summary of the entirety of the [socialism] debate... is in a paper written in the 1990’s by Rothbard under the title The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited. Anyone who reads this and remains a socialist cannot read. mises.org/library/end-so…
