Inspired by a list put out be Merryn Somerset Webb, I recommend, ranked from easiest to read to most difficult:
Harry Browne's Why Government Doesn't Work
Thomas Dilorenzo's The Problem with Socialism
Gary North's Marx's Religion of Revolution
Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
And if you don't own these books yourself, get them for yourself, they are all important books for the anti-socialist.
-RW
Apropos of books on political economy, there is a review of a biography of Karl Polanyi on the NY Review of Books website that is worth reading. Polanyi was a leftist Austrian born 1886 that did intellectual battle with Mises, the socialist pricing debate being a main point of contention. Both the subject and author of the article subscribe to the predictable statist nonsense, but still an interesting read. It's called "The Mad from Red Vienna"
ReplyDeleteSocialists don't read books unless they have pretty pictures of Dear Leaders on them or Oprah told them to.
ReplyDeleteI would suggest Frank Chodorov's "Fugitive Essays," or "The Rise and Fall of Society."
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