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What are some books are on your reading list currently? I'm currently listening to an audio book of Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises after having a buddy recommend it. Very informative so far.
 
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Just bought Man, Economy and State with Power and Market by Rothbard as well as vM's Human Action. IIRC, MES was supposed to be a textbook about Human Action, but morphed into it's own book.

Be a few weeks before I can start on them though.
 
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Bezdomny said:
Just bought Man, Economy and State with Power and Market by Rothbard as well as vM's Human Action. IIRC, MES was supposed to be a textbook about Human Action, but morphed into it's own book.

Be a few weeks before I can start on them though.
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The same friend also suggested The Law by Frédéric Bastiat and The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek as well.
 
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Burhead said:
What are some books are on your reading list currently? I'm currently listening to an audio book of Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises after having a buddy recommend it. Very informative so far.
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Dude, I'm scared to pick that one up. Big endeavor. Been eyeballing a long time. Here's my political/history reading list from the last few years, with a 1-5 star rating associated with each:

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n_huffhines what are your opinions on the Road to Serfdom & The Law? I'm going to start those after Human Action.
 
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Burhead said:
The same friend also suggested The Law by Frédéric Bastiat and The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek as well.
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The Law is probably my favorite book of all time. Can't believe how easy it is to read considering it's written by a French 19th century economist/philosopher. It's so awesome. Road to Serfdom is pretty good, too, but it's a difficult and somewhat tedious read.
 
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n_huffhines said:
The Law is probably my favorite book of all time. Can't believe how easy it is to read considering it's written by a French 19th century economist/philosopher. It's so awesome. Road to Serfdom is pretty good, too, but it's a difficult and somewhat tedious read.
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Thanks, if you're interested, here is the link to the free audio book;

Human Action A Treatise on Economics
 
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Good to be king by Michael Badnarik

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve By G Edward Griffith

The Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins

A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship by Ron Paul

Government and Legal Plunder: Bastiat Brought Up to Date by Dean Russell

Black's Law Dictionary
 
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Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Its not political. It's about the markets, but it's entertaining and smart
 
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at one time I was making my way thru Presidential biographies but slowed and kept getting sidetracked by other figures mentioned in the books. I need to get back at it
 
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Another good book that explains the basics of economics without using any of the boring equations and is very easy to read is:

Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity
 
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KingNick865 said:
Currently reading The Republic right now, not entirely sure what I'd like to read next.
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Read the Laws; then, follow that up by reading Cicero's Republic and Cicero's Laws (maybe throw some Philo of Alexandria in there as well).
 
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Personally, I would suggest that everyone read Smith's Wealth of Nations AND his Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Wealth of Nations lays out why capitalism is the optimal solution for an actual society; Theory of Moral Sentiments lays out why it is against one's self-interest to actually be a capitalist.
 
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Hmmm...I don't know why I gave it just 3 stars. I did really enjoy the book...it was actually the audiobook, which he himself reads. I think that makes it funnier.
 
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BEATBAMA12 said:
Where's GSVol on this ? I know he's got some good literature to recommend .
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Defend has some must reading on his list.

I am most definately a Von Mises fan.

No reading list is complete without Tragedy and Hope by Quigley.

Here is one I reccomend for everyone:

Brian Sussman's Ecotyranny.

In “Eco-Tyranny,” author Brian Sussman sounds a timely and important warning: The radical "greens" are not in retreat. With the defeat of cap-and-trade legislation in 2010 and the increasingly discredited alarmist theory of anthropogenic global warming, the greens may have lowered their public profile; however, with the full cooperation of the Obama administration, they are forging ahead with their illiberal agenda of gaining ever more control over the American economy and people.

Sussman, a trained meteorologist and veteran San Francisco talk-show host, has followed up his 2010 demolition of the global warming quackery, “ Climategate ," with a book that takes a big-picture view of the history, ideology, and goals of the anti-capitalist, anti-people green movement.

The event that drove Sussman to write “Eco-Tyranny” was a federal document to which a Department of Interior employee had alerted him. On October 5, 2009, President Obama signed an executive order titled, “Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance.” Although that title hints at the immense scope of the order, it understates the frightening extent to which it expands the power of the federal government and constricts the rights and liberty of private citizens. According to Sussman’s Interior Department insider, the long-term goal of President Obama’s “green team” is to “divide the country into sectors where all humans would be herded into urban hubs” while most of the land would be “returned to a natural state upon which humans would only be allowed to tread lightly.” (The full text of the 14-page executive order is reproduced in the appendix of “Eco-Tyranny.”)

Far too few Americans are aware that environmentalism is one of the most virulent illiberal ideologies in the world. Sussman traces the history of illiberal environmentalism from the 1800s up to the present, and he includes a helpful summary of key dates in the appendix.

Remarkably, Sussman shows readers that such destructive figures as Marx, Lenin, and Hitler were intellectual and political forerunners of the modern illiberal green movement. Readers will be interested to learn of the four left-wingers who influenced and shaped the thinking of Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book, “Silent Spring,” marked the birth of the modern environmentalist movement.

“Eco-Tyranny” shows how closely the American left has worked to fulfill the United Nations’ explicit plans to hamstring American prosperity, using hundreds of billions of our own tax dollars against us.
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Even though Earth hasn't warmed over the last sixteen years this administration is carrying out it's war on coal.

Of 500 coal fired plants in America 111 have shut down since Obama took office while China adds about one per month and India isn't far behind and their's don't burn nearly as clean as our.

Numerous other planned coal plants in have been scrapped.

Far reaching bills such as the endangered species, clean water and clean air acts free up the EPA and other federal agencies to carry out a policy of deconstructing American industry and commerce.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I don't think I'd get much out of an audiobook "reading" of that. I need to sit down with a book and a highlighter, with 100% focus.
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On some books I like to listen and read at the same time, Human Action has been one of those :hi:
 
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