Though over 100 years old, this short monograph remains one of the most vivid descriptions of the damage that government control over money can do, as White describes the late 18th century inflation that the French government inflicted on its people. Making use of good economic theory and a thorough command of the history, White’s provides a compelling indictment of how economic ignorance combined with an unconstrained state can lead to misery. Many of the lessons in this book could still be learned by politicians in our own day.
Also from the FEE Library
Cliches of Socialism Number 64 by Paul L. Poirot
“Industrialization causes unemployment in capitalist countries.”
A Bibliography on The Voluntary Society by F.A. Harper
F.A. “Baldy” Harper’s reference list: A Bibliography on the Voluntary Society: 100 Selected Titles in Economics, History, and Philosophy.
The Foundation of Historic Irvington by Barbara Dodsworth
This pamphlet is a short history of the town of Irvington, New York and the FEE property.
Carl Menger and Early Austrians by Paul Cwik
Professor Paul Cwik’s 2010 PowerPoint presentation “Carl Menger and Early Austrians.”
Essentials of Economics by Faustino Ballve
Translated from the Spanish, this short book is an overview of most of the basic ideas of economics, presented from an Austrian school perspective. The organization of the book roughly parallels that of Mises’s Human Action, though it is considerably shorter and written in a way more accessible to people reading economics for the first [...]
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