Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Austrian Shock Therapy

Someone asked me today to send them a list of Austrian primers, to get started with the one form of economics which actually manages to coherently explain all economic phenomena from inflation through to welfare dependency, via empire building, and onto boom and bust. I thought this might be a useful list for other budding Austrians to get their teeth into.

What has the government done to our money? A primer for inflation. Read around 10 linked pages for a good precis on the whys, hows, whens, and wheres, of what inflation is and how it comes about:
http://www.mises.org/money/3s1.asp

What else you should know about inflation. The classic text in the Austrian field:
http://www.mises.org/books/inflation.pdf

The origin of the horrors of the Welfare state and why it always destroys the human spirit:
http://www.mises.org/efandi/ch12.asp

How the welfare state corrupted Sweden:
http://www.mises.org/story/2190

Man vs. The Welfare State. Another Hazlitt classic:
http://www.mises.org/books/manwelfarestate.pdf

The Welfare state's attack on the family:
http://www.mises.org/story/2218

Democracy. The God that failed:
http://www.mises.org/hoppeintro.asp

The myth of efficiency (or the myth of the economy of scale):
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/efficiency.pdf

Economics in one lesson. A complete synopsis of Austrian economics:
http://www.mises.org/books/onelesson.pdf

What is the Austrian school?
http://www.mises.org/etexts/austrian.asp

Intellectuals and why the state looks after them:
http://www.mises.org/etexts/intellectuals.asp

Business Cycle - Boom and Bust - and how Austrianism explains it:
http://www.mises.org/story/672

Man, Economy, and State. A complete economic treatise, in much greater depth.
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/mes.asp

Human Action. The defining work of Austrian Economics:
http://www.mises.org/resources/3250

That should be enough to keep anyone going for a few days! :-)

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