Ново в Икономическата библиотека (25 – 27 май 2011)
„Economics deals with society’s fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.“ – Ludwig von Mises
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007
New hardcover edition, introduction by Murray N. Rothbard.
“Here Mises defends his all-important idea of methodological dualism: one approach to the hard sciences and another for the social sciences. He defends the epistemological status of economic proposition. He has his most extended analysis of those who want to claim that there is more than one logical structure by which we think about reality. He grapples with the problem of determinism and free will. And presents philosophy of history and historical research. Overall, this is a tremendously lucid defense of the fundamental Misesian approach to social philosophy.” http://library.ime.bg/theory-and-history-2/
Economic Calculation In the Socialist Commonwealth
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010
This is the essay that overthrew the socialist paradigm in economics, and provided the foundation for modern Austrian price theory. When it first appeared in 1920, Mises was alone in challenging the socialists to explain how their pricing system would actually work in practice.
Mises proved that socialism could not work because it could not distinguish more or less valuable uses of social resources, and predicted the system would end in chaos. The result of his proof was the two-decade-long „socialist-calculation debate.“ This new edition contains an afterword by Joseph Salerno, who applies the calculation argument to contemporary problems like environmentalism and business regulation. http://library.ime.bg/economic-calculation-in-the-socialist-commonwealth/
The Great Austrian Economists
Randall G. Holcombe (ed.)
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009
This collection presents ideas from the full sweep of this intellectual history, highlighting 15 thinkers who made the greatest contribution to advancing the Austrian School of economics. These original essays are written by top Austrians who explain the Austrian view of property, markets, prices, competition, entrepreneurship, business cycles, and government policy.
Contributors include Murray Rothbard, Israel Kirzner, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, Jeffrey Herbener, Peter Klein, Mark Thornton, Jesus Huerta de Soto, Larry Sechrest, John Egger, Roger Garrison, Shawn Ritenour, Thomas DiLorenzo, and Jeffrey Tucker.
Economists covered are de Mariana, Cantillon, Turgot, Say, Bastiat, Menger, Wicksteed, Boehm-Bawerk, Fetter, Mises, Hazlitt, Hayek, Hutt, Roepke, and Rothbard.
http://library.ime.bg/the-great-austrian-economists/
Education: Free and Compulsory
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999
What is it about today’s school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have so many generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level of mediocrity?
In this radical and scholarly monograph, out of print for two decades and restored according to the author’s original, Murray N. Rothbard identifies the crucial feature of our educational system that dooms it to fail: at every level, from financing to attendance, the system relies on compulsion instead of voluntary consent.
As Kevin Ryan of Boston University points out in the introduction, if education reform is ever to bring about fundamental change, it will have to begin with a complete rethinking of public schooling that Rothbard offers here. http://library.ime.bg/education-free-and-compulsory/
