Economic History
Complete Histories
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History of Economic Analysis by Joseph Schumpeter
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A History of Interest Rates by Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla
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Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History by Angus Maddison
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Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation by Robert Schuettinger
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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark
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American Economic History
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Conceived in Liberty by Murray Rothbard
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How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo
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A History of Currency in the United States by Alonzo Barton
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A History of Money and Banking: The Colonial Era to World War II by Murray Rothbard
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A History of American Currency with Chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper Money by Willliam Sumner
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The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Bootrls from Colonial Days to the Present Time by A. M. Sakolski
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Tariff History of the United States by F.W. Taussig
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The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies by Murray n. Rothbard
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Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation by Mark Thorton
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The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914 by Robert Higgs
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The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton Fulsom
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History of Crises Under the National Banking System by O.M.W. Sprague
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The Depression of 1873–1879: An Austrian Perspective by Patrick Newman
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Railroads and Regulation: 1877-1916 by Gabriel Kolko
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The Progressive Era by Murray Rothbard
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Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure by Dominick Armentano
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Americas Money Machine, The Story of the Federal Reserve by Elgin Groseclose
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A Bubble That Broke the World by Garet Garrett
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Economics and the Public Welfare by Benjamin Anderson
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In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition by Butler Shaffer
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Early 20th Century and World War I
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War Collectivism by Murray Rothbard
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War Collectivism and World War I by Murray Rothbard
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Great Wars and Great Leaders by Ralph Raico
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How the Fed Helped Pay for World War I by John Koning
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The 1920s and The Great Depression
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Banking and the Business Cycle, A Study of the Great Depression in the United States by C. A. Phillips,
T. F. McManus, and R. W. Nelson
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The Depression of 1920–1921: A Credit Induced Boom and a Market Based Recovery? by Patrick Newman
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America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard
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Industrial Employment and the Policies of Herbert C. Hoover by D.W. MacKenzie
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The Great Depression by Lionel Robbins
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The Great Depression as a Credit Boom Gone Wrong by Barry Eichengreen and Kris Mitchener
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Deflation and Economic Growth: The Great Depression as the Great Outlier by Pavel Ryska
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal by Robert Murphy
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Great Myths of the Great Depression by Lawrence Read
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The Gold Standard Did Not Cause the Great Depression by Robert Murphy
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The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn
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1940s and Post World War II
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Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s by Robert Higgs
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The Reality of the Wartime Economy More Historical Evidence on Whether World War II Ended the Great Depression by Seven Horowitz and Michael McPhillips
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Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy by Robert Higgs
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The Great Depression of 1946 by Richard Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway
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Business Tides by Henry Hazlitt
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Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs
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International Economic History
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The New Deal in Old Rome by H. J. Haskell
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Early Speculative Bubbles and Increases in the Supply of Money by Douglas French
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Fiat Money Inflation in France by Andrew White
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Monetary and Economic Policy Problems Before, During, and After the Great War by Ludwig von Mises
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The Economics of Inflation: A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany by Costantino Bresciani-Turroni
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Exchange, Prices, and Production in Hyper-Inflation: Germany 1920-1923 by Frank Graham
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The Causes of the Economic Crisis, and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression by Ludwig von Mises
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When Money Destroys Nations: How Hyperinflation Ruined Zimbabwe, How Ordinary People Survived, and Warnings for Nations that Print Money by Phillip Haslam and Russell Lamberti
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