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The following is a collection of articles and books in the libertarian tradition to help you get started. All links point to online resources. Please help yourself.

Austrian Economics Resources

15 Great Austrian Economists - (http://www.mises.org/books/15great.pdf)
Introduction to Economic Reasoning, An - (http://mises.org/books/EconReasoning.pdf)
Introduction to Austrian Economics, An - (http://mises.org/books/introtoaustrian.pdf)
Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays, The - (http://mises.org/pdf/austtrad.pdf)
Chaos Theory (the one about Anarchist Capitalism, not fractals)- (http://mises.org/books/chaostheory.pdf)
Economic Science and the Austrian Method - (http://mises.org/esandtam.asp)
Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School (2nd edition) - (http://mises.org/books/econforrealpeople.pdf)
Economics of Liberty, The - (http://www.mises.org/books/economicsofliberty.pdf)
Theory and History Hardcover - (http://mises.org/Books/theoryhistory.pdf)
Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises - (http://mises.org/midroad.asp, http://mises.org/libprop.asp)
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth - (http://mises.org/pdf/econcalc.pdf)
Education: Free and Compulsory - (http://mises.org/books/education.pdf)
Antitrust: The Case for Repeal - (http://mises.org/books/antitrust.pdf)
Economics in One Lesson - (http://jim.com/econ/)
What Has Government Done To Our Money? (http://www.mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf)
HSC CD - (http://mises.org/resources/2022)
HSC Supplemental Reading: - (contains snippets from the following)

Articles and Papers

"Moral Equivalence?"
"A World Without You""Laissez-Faire Radical: A Quest for the Historical Mises"

"Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist"

Lew Rockwell "An American Classical Liberalism"
Murray Rothbard "Anatomy of the State"
"A Strategy for the Right"
Gene Callahan
Dmitry Chernikov "War as Chaos Enforcement"
"Ideology and Social Evolution"
"The Bogeyman of Libertarian 'Atomism'"
"Our Interests and Theirs"
"Drafting Sowell"
"Attaining Both Security and Liberty"
"Animal Rightists – Allies for Liberty?"
"Sowell and His Efficient Police State"
Jeff Tucker & Lew Rockwell "The Cultural Thought of Ludwig von Mises"
Joseph Salerno "Ludwig von Mises As Social Rationalist"
"Postscript: Why a Socialist Economy is 'Impossible'"
Alex Tabarrok "Death Taxes: Theory, History, and Ethics"
Michael Levin "How Philosophical Errors Impede Freedom"
Donald W. Livingston "A Moral Accounting of the Union and the Confederacy"
Paul A. Cantor "Hyperinflation and Hyperreality: Thomas Mann in Light of Austrian Economics"

Pertaining specifically to the Austrian school of economics: Required Readings.

Books

Étienne de La Boétie, Discource on Voluntary Servitude
Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson
Gene Callahan, Economics for Real People
Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition
---, Socialism
---, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
---, Epistemological Problems of Economics
Murray Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty
---, Making Economic Sense
---, What Has Government Done to Our Money?
---, The Mystery of Banking
---, Education: Free and Compulsory
George Reisman, The Government Against the Economy
Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (abridged)
Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government
Hans-Hermann Hoppe ed., The Myth of National Defense
Lysander Spooner, No Treason

Massive Treatises

Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Murray Rothbard, Man, Economy, & State with Power and Market
George Reisman, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics
Jesus Huerta de Soto, Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles