top of page

Economic History

Complete Histories

​

​

History of Economic Analysis by Joseph Schumpeter

​

​

​

A History of Interest Rates by Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla

​

​

​

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History by Angus Maddison

​

​

​

Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation by Robert Schuettinger

​

​

​

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark

​

​

American Economic History

​

​

Conceived in Liberty by Murray Rothbard

​

​

​

How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo

​

​

​

A History of Currency in the United States by Alonzo Barton

​

​

​

A History of Money and Banking: The Colonial Era to World War II by Murray Rothbard

​

​

​

A History of American Currency with Chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper Money by Willliam Sumner

​

​

​

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

​

​

​

Tariff History of the United States by F.W. Taussig

​

​

​

The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies by Murray n. Rothbard

​

​

​

Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation by Mark Thorton

​

​

The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

​

​

The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914 by Robert Higgs

​

​

​

The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton Fulsom

​

​

​

History of Crises Under the National Banking System by O.M.W. Sprague

​

​

​

The Depression of 1873–1879: An Austrian Perspective by Patrick Newman

​

​

​

Railroads and Regulation: 1877-1916 by Gabriel Kolko

​

​

​

The Progressive Era by Murray Rothbard

​

​

​

Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure by Dominick Armentano

​

​

​

Americas Money Machine, The Story of the Federal Reserve by Elgin Groseclose

​

​

​

A Bubble That Broke the World by Garet Garrett

​

​

​

Economics and the Public Welfare by Benjamin Anderson

​

​

​

In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition by Butler Shaffer

​

​

Early 20th Century and World War I

​

​

War Collectivism by Murray Rothbard

​

​

​

War Collectivism and World War I by Murray Rothbard

​

​

​

Great Wars and Great Leaders by Ralph Raico

​

​

​

How the Fed Helped Pay for World War I by John Koning

​

​

The 1920s and The Great Depression

​

​

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

​

​

​

The Depression of 1920–1921: A Credit Induced Boom and a Market Based Recovery? by Patrick Newman

​

​

​

America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard

​

​

​

Industrial Employment and the Policies of Herbert C. Hoover by D.W. MacKenzie

​

​

​

The Great Depression by Lionel Robbins

​

​

​

The Great Depression as a Credit Boom Gone Wrong by Barry Eichengreen and Kris Mitchener

​

​

​

Deflation and Economic Growth: The Great Depression as the Great Outlier by Pavel Ryska

​

​

​

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal by Robert Murphy

​

​

​

Great Myths of the Great Depression by Lawrence Read

​

​

​

The Gold Standard Did Not Cause the Great Depression by Robert Murphy

​

​

​

The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn

​

​

1940s and Post World War II

​

​

Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s by Robert Higgs

​

​

​

The Reality of the Wartime Economy More Historical Evidence on Whether World War II Ended the Great Depression by Seven Horowitz and Michael McPhillips

​

​

​

Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy by Robert Higgs

​

​

​

The Great Depression of 1946 by Richard Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway

​

​

​

Business Tides by Henry Hazlitt

​

​

​

Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs

​

​

International Economic History

​

​

The New Deal in Old Rome by H. J. Haskell

​

​

​

Early Speculative Bubbles and Increases in the Supply of Money by Douglas French

​

​

​

Fiat Money Inflation in France by Andrew White

​

​

​

Monetary and Economic Policy Problems Before, During, and After the Great War by Ludwig von Mises

​

​

​

The Economics of Inflation: A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany by Costantino Bresciani-Turroni

​

​

​

Exchange, Prices, and Production in Hyper-Inflation: Germany 1920-1923 by Frank Graham

​

​

​

The Causes of the Economic Crisis, and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression by Ludwig von Mises

​

​

​

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

​

​

bottom of page