市场经济理论的经典。

本书是马克·史库森(Mark Skousen)的又一部力作。基于他对两大学派经济学家的访谈，揭示了他们各自的强势和弱势，在每章的结尾部分都对“谁对谁错”作出了研判。最后，全书的分析得到了令人惊喜的结论，正如作者在全书结尾所期望的，这两个争论不休的学派有望增进他们共同的理论基础。

In his new book, "Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes?" economist and author Mark Skousen debates the Austrian and Chicago schools of free-market economics, two schools in constant, heated disagreement in their theories of money, business cycle, government policy, and methodology.

We are beyond mere excitement about Lessons for the Young Economist. It is easily the best introduction to economics for the young reader—because it covers both pure economic theory and also how markets work (the domain of most introductory books).
Robert Murphy has the right frame of mind and mastery of the subject matter to provide the best possible pedagogy. The logic is super clear. The organization is impeccable. It achieves a great balance between “plain old” economics and that aspect of economic thought that is considered particularly Austrian. Therefore, it prepares the student for both conventional economic studies in the future and provides the logical rigor and policy clarity that only the Austrian School perspective can offer.
Most of the attempts at such texts falter because they are either too dry and technical for the young reader or they are littered with attempts to keep the student entertained with references to pop culture or cheesy passages that attempt to “speak the child’s language” but only end up sounding patronizing.
Dr. Murphy’s text has none of this. The prose has relentless fire without needless fireworks. What drives it forward is intellectual passion born of his love of the topic. What’s also nice is that he is nowhere self-consciously trying to sound like someone he is not. It is his real voice, explaining everything point by point. For this reason, the text is warm and engaging.
Here is the product of vast experience and daily writing. This permits the voicing of the book to achieve a remarkable integration page to page, chapter to chapter. Though he is drawing from the whole history of the development of economics, the text ends up being strikingly original. His approach is not based on anything but his own sense of how to teach this subject.
This book will not be boring or useless even for people who think they already know the subject. Every page or two, there are fresh insights. For example, on the problems with barter, he shows that in the real world, most goods and services would not have come into existence at all (so that there would be no trading of tractors for cobbler services because there would be no tractors or repairable shoes). In another place, he points out that one of the advantages of the division of labor is that it makes the advantages of automation more readily apparent.
Maybe these points appear in other introductory texts but the way he works them into a logical and seamless system is very impressive. It has a much larger market than just high-school students. Anyone can enjoy this book and learn from it. The appropriate age here is probably 13 and up but any adult will love this book.
Murphy wrote the first study guides to Human Action and Man, Economy, and State. He can now add another medal to his chest. It is a big one. There is every reason to believe that this book will still have powerful legs decades from now.
As for the price, it is close to being a miracle for a textbook of this size and expanse. The conventional publishers of bad books at high prices don't stand a chance against this landmark.

本书是一本独具特色的基础经济学读本，由奥地利经济学派新锐代表人物罗伯特·墨菲（Robert P．Murphy）博士撰写。墨菲博士深通写作之道，他用出神入化的笔触向普通民众讲述关于真实人的经济学，逻辑超清晰，框架超优美，文字温馨而迷人，不仅实现了“朴素而传统”的经济学与奥地利学派思想的完美融合，而且为学生打下了继续学习高级经济学的基础。

《哈耶克自由哲学》内容简介：哈耶克，奥地利裔英国政治思想家和经济学家，新自由主义的代表人物，当代西方自由保守主义最重要的代表。早期的哈耶克主要关注自由市场经济学，首度提出投资过度理论。哈耶克确信资本主义体系自身具有保持稳定的能力，反对国家干预经济生活。由于他在经济学上的突出成就，于1974年获得诺贝尔经济学奖。他的影响遍及经济学、理论心理学、政治哲学、科学哲学、法律人类学、人类思想史等领域，尤其是他在政治哲学领域内对自由主义的褒扬，使他在政治哲学界影响深远，并左右着当代西方政治哲学理论的走向。

《经济发展理论》一书是约瑟夫·熊彼特早期成名之作。熊彼特在这本著作里首先提出的“创新理论”，当时曾轰动西方经济学界，并且一直享有盛名。此书最先以德文发表于1912年，修订再版于1926年，越数年又重印了德文第三版。 1934年，以德文修订本为依据的英译本，由美国哈佛大学出版社出版，被列为（哈佛经济丛书）第46卷。现在的中译本，据此英译本译出。
熊彼特的《经济发展理论》以 “对于利润、资本、信贷、利息和经济周期的考察”作为副标题，涉猎范围可谓极其广泛。但是书中最具特色和最引人注目的，还是他所提出的“创新理论”。
全书共分为六章。
第一、第二两章最为重要，从静止状态的“循环流转”到经济发展的根本现象，特别是第二章　，对经济发展，包括从“企业家”的特点和功能、 “生产要素的新组合”、“创新”的涵义和作用，直到资本主义的产生，熊彼特都作了开创性的精辟的论述，既是理论上的探讨，也是历史发展过程的概述。
第三、 四、五各章则进一步分别阐述了信贷与资本，企业家利润，以及资本的利息。我们可以概括地说，“创新理论”就是熊彼特“经济发展理论”的核心。

奥地利学派经济学方法论的代表作。

Stressing verbal logic rather than mathematics, Israel M. Kirzner provides at once a thorough critique of contemporary price theory, an essay on the theory of entrepreneurship, and an essay on the theory of competition. "Competition and Entrepreneurship" offers a new appraisal of quality competition, of selling effort, and of the fundamental weaknesses of contemporary welfare economics.
Kirzner's book establishes a theory of the market and the price system which differs from orthodox price theory. He sees orthodox price theory as explaining the configuration of prices and quantities that satisfied the conditions for equilibrium. Mr. Kirzner argues that "it is "more" useful to look to price theory to help understand how the decisions of individual participants in the market interact to generate the market forces which compel changes in prices, outputs, and methods of production and in the allocation of resources."
Although "Competition and Entrepreneurship" is primarily concerned with the operation of the market economy, Kirzner's insights can be applied to crucial aspects of centrally planned economic systems as well. In the analysis of these processes, Kirzner clearly shows that the rediscovery of the entrepreneur must emerge as a step of major importance.

Can the market fully manage the money and banking sector?
Jesús Huerta de Soto, professor of economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, has made history with this mammoth and exciting treatise that it has and can again, without inflation, without business cycles, and without the economic instability that has characterized the age of government control.
Such a book as this comes along only once every several generations: a complete comprehensive treatise on economic theory. It is sweeping, revolutionary, and devastating--not only the most extended elucidation of Austrian business cycle theory to ever appear in print but also a decisive vindication of the Misesian-Rothbardian perspective on money, banking, and the law.
Jörg Guido Hülsmann has said that this is the most significant work on money and banking to appear since 1912, when Mises's own book was published and changed the way all economists thought about the subject.
Its five main contributions:
a wholesale reconstruction of the legal framework for money and banking, from the ancient world to modern times,
an application of law-and-economics logic to banking that links microeconomic analysis to macroeconomic phenomena,
a comprehensive critique of fractional-reserve banking from the point of view of history, theory, and policy,
an application of the Austrian critique of socialism to central banking,
the most comprehensive look at banking enterprise from the point of view of market-based entrepreneurship.
Those are the main points but, in fact, this only scratches the surface. Indeed, it would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this book. De Soto provides also a defense of the Austrian perspective on business cycles against every other theory, defends the 100% reserve perspective from the point of view of Roman and British law, takes on the most important objections to full reserve theory, and presents a full policy program for radical reform.
It was Hülsmann's review of the Spanish edition that inspired the translation that led to this Mises Institute edition in English. The result is astonishing: an 875-page masterpiece that utterly demolishes the case for fiat currency and central banking, and shows that these institutions have compromised economic stability and freedom, and, moreover, are intolerable in a free society.
De Soto has set new scholarly standards with this detailed discussion of monetary reform from an Austro-libertarian point of view. Huerta de Soto s solid elaboration of his arguments along these lines makes his treatise a model illustration of the Austrian approach to the study of the relationship between law and economics.
It could take a decade for the full implications of this book to be absorbed but this much is clear: all serious students of these subject matters will have to master this treatise.

"One of the great political works of our time, . . . the twentieth-century successor to John Stuart Mill's essay, 'On Liberty.'"—Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek
"A reflective, often biting, commentary on the nature of our society and its dominant thought by one who is passionately opposed to the coercion of human beings by the arbitrary will of others, who puts liberty above welfare and is sanguine that greater welfare will thereby ensue."—Sidney Hook, New York Times Book Review
In this classic work Hayek restates the ideals of freedom that he believes have guided, and must continue to guide, the growth of Western civilization. Hayek's book, first published in 1960, urges us to clarify our beliefs in today's struggle of political ideologies.