Austrian Economics Reading List
Learn the fundamental aspects of Austrian thought, from subjectivism and marginal utility to inflation and the business cycle.
Economics in One Lesson — Henry Hazlitt
What Has Government Done With Our Money- Murray Rothbard
Handbook on Contemporary Austrian Economics — Peter Boettke
Ten Great Economic Myths — Murray Rothbard
PRINCIPLES
Principles of Economics — Carl Menger
Capital and Interest — Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Human Action — Ludwig von Mises
Man, Economy, and State w/ Power and Market — Murray Rothbard
Individualism and Economic Order — F.A. Hayek
Natural Value — Friedrich von Wieser
Lectures on Political Economy — Knut Wicksell Volume 1 and Volume 2
METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY
Epistemological Problems of Economics — Ludwig von Mises
The Counter-Revolution of Science — F.A. Hayek
Economic Science and the Austrian Method — Hans Hermann Hoppe
An Essay on The Nature and Significance of Economic Science — Lionel Robbins
The Economic Point of View — Israel Kirzner
Theory and History — Ludwig von Mises
Praxeology and Understanding — George Selgin
The Pretense of Knowledge — F.A. Hayek
Economics and Knowledge — F.A. Hayek
Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory — James Buchanan
Big Players and the Economic Theory of Expectations — Roger Koppl
The Empirics of Austrian Economics — Steve Horwitz
HISTORY OF THOUGHT
The Making of Modern Economics — Mark Skousen
Economic Thought Before Adam Smith (Volume 1) — Murray Rothbard
Classical Economics (Volume 2) — Murray Rothbard
History of Economic Analysis — Joseph Schumpeter
A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures — Lionel Robbins
ECONOMIC HISTORY
America’s Great Depression — Murray Rothbard
A History of Money and Banking in the United States — Murray Rothbard
The Great Depression — Lionel Robbins
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal — Robert Murphy
Early Speculative Bubbles and Increases in the Supply of Money — Douglas E. French
The Transformation of the American Economy 1865–1914 — Robert Higgs
The Panic of 1819 — Murray Rothbard
The Forgotten Depression — James Grant
MONETARY THEORY
Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective — Steve Horwitz
Money: Sound and Unsound — Joe Salerno
The Theory of Money and Credit — Ludwig Von Mises
Less Than Zero — George Selgin
The Origins of Money — Carl Menger
The Mystery of Banking — Murray Rothbard
Denationalisation of Money — F.A. Hayek
Choice in Currency — F.A. Hayek