Readings from The Mises Circle
From 2012 to 2014, I had the pleasure of hosting the Mises Circle at the University of Texas at Austin with Pierre Rochard, Daniel Krawisz, George McHugh, and many other Austrian longhorns. We covered a wide array of literature from Austrians and fellow travelers, as well as begin comprehensively analyzing Bitcoin through an Austrian lens, which later formed the basis of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
The continued explosion of interest in Bitcoin has also fueled an increased interest in Austrian economics among bitcoiners. Here I have collected all of the readings from Mises Circle meetings. The list is not intended to be a cohesive curriculum, but instead serves to guide readers down rabbit holes they may have not seen before. For a self-guided introductory course in Austrian economics, I recommend combing through Saifedean Ammous’s “A Beginner’s Guide to Austrian Economics” and of course reading his book, The Bitcoin Standard. If you are looking for other people to read with, I recommend checking out the Bitcoin Reading Group managed by Justin Moon.
Happy reading!
- Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
- “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read
- “The Single Tax: Economic and Moral Implications” by Murray N. Rothbard
- “The Myth of Natural Monopoly” by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
- “The Austrian Theory of Money” by Murray N. Rothbard
- Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises
- The Production of Security by Gustave de Molinari
- “How the Free Market Works” by Daniel Krawisz
- “The Evenly Rotating Economy” from Human Action) by Ludwig von Mises
- “Great Myths of the Great Depression” by Lawrence Reed
- “The Use of Knowledge in Society” by Friedrich A. Hayek
- “Ronald Reagan: An Autopsy” by Murray N. Rothbard
- “Introduction” from Theory and History by Ludwig von Mises
- “Time Preference as an Essential Requisite of Action” from Human Action) by Ludwig von Mises
- “Time Preference, Government, and the Process of De-civilization — From Monarchy to Democracy” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- “Fallacies of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- “Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics” by Murray N. Rothbard
- “Williamson and the Austrians” by Peter G. Klein
- “Bank Credit Expansions and Its Effects on the Economic System” From Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles by Jesús Huerta de Soto
- “In Defense of Fiduciary Media — or, We are Not Devo(lutionists), We are Misesians!” by George A. Selgin and Lawrence H. White
- “Against Fiduciary Media” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe with Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Walter Block
- “The Origins of the Fed” by Ron Paul
- “The Origins of the Federal Reserve” by Murray N. Rothbard
- How an Economy Grows and Why it Doesn’t by Irwin A. Schiff
- “The Production Structure” by Pater Tenebrarum
- “Hyperinflation, Money Demand, and the Crack-up Boom” by Thorsten Polleit
- Keynes: The Man by Murray N. Rothbard (HTML)
- “Is There Hope for Liberty in Our Lifetime?” by Jacob H. Huebert (Transcript)
- Time Will Run Back by Henry Hazlitt
- “Economics of Bitcoin: is Bitcoin an alternative to fiat currencies and gold?” by Peter Šurda
- “Entrepreneurship” and “Socialism” from Socialism, Economic Calculation and Entrepreneurship by Jesús Huerta de Soto
- “The Sweden Myth” by Stefan Karlsson
- “How the Welfare State Corrupted Sweden” by Per Bylund
- “Stagnating Socialist Sweden” by Per Bylund
- “How Keynes Saved Sweden?” by Per Bylund
- “The Nature and Role of Entrepreneurship in Markets: Implications for Policy” by Frédéric Sautet and Israel Kirzner
- “Alertness, Action, and the Antecedents of Entrepreneurship” by Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein
- “The Economics of Housing Bubbles” by Mark Thornton
- “The Higher-Education Bubble Has Popped” by Doug French
- Deflation and Liberty by Jörg Guido Hüllsmann (HTML)
- “Bitcoins, the regression theorem, and that curious but unthreatening empirical world” by Konrad S. Graf
- “Cobden on Freedom, Peace, and Trade” by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
- “On the Repeal of the Corn Laws” by Richard Cobden
- “The Candlemakers’ Petition” from Economic Sophisms by Frédéric Bastiat
- “Customary Law for the Commercial Revolution” from The Enterprise of Law by Bruce L. Benson