Which book should I buy?

gwax23 said:
I know the Mises Institutes website has a free downloadable PDF of the book. No registration needed.

I still recommend buying a physical copy though. Great book for anyones library.

Free To choose is also a good book unless your a die hard anarcho capitalist purist who rejects everything.
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Here's the link>http://mises.org/books/economics_in_one_lesson_hazlitt.pdf I read it on pdf and then I bought the book. I just wanted a personal copy that I could loan out. Spread the Idea.
 
The best book to start with is The Revolution by Ron Paul. It's a very easy read and covers all the basics of liberty. He also gives some excellent further reading suggestions at the end. I'd follow it with The Law, Economics in One Lesson, and What Has Government Done to Our Money? Just reading those books will give you a better understanding of economics and the basis of law than 99% of the population.
 
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I'm reading Walden and Civil Disobedience by Thoreau right now and it is very enjoyable! Seriously can't recommend it enough. Economics in One Lesson which has already been mentioned is another easy and enjoyable book. I'd stay away from Hayek and Mises for a first read, their writing style makes reading their books more difficult, and while very informative, less enjoyable. Not vacation material IMO. Just my $.02.
 
If no one has suggest these yet "End The Fed" and "The Case For Gold" by Ron Paul will both give you everything you need to know to understand why the Federal Reserve is an immoral, ineffective, idiotic institution and why hard money based on gold (and possibly silver) is best choice for monetary policy and economy. "The Case For Gold" is even a free pdf on mises.org.
 
If no one has suggest these yet "End The Fed" and "The Case For Gold" by Ron Paul will both give you everything you need to know to understand why the Federal Reserve is an immoral, ineffective, idiotic institution and why hard money based on gold (and possibly silver) is best choice for monetary policy and economy. "The Case For Gold" is even a free pdf on mises.org.
 
Might I suggest you try and find the one you pick, leather bound. Specially if it has any thing to do with college taught economics.

That way maybe when things get bad we can make a soup or broth out of it and try get something out of it. :p
 
Read the holy bible, it is the best book out there. Ron is good, but God is great!
 
Wow thanks guys! Didn't even know about that mises website. Thanks for some links too!

Noticed The Law is only like 80 pages long...I kinda like that lol

Seth said:
The best book to start with is The Revolution by Ron Paul. It's a very easy read and covers all the basics of liberty. He also gives some excellent further reading suggestions at the end. I'd follow it with The Law, Economics in One Lesson, and What Has Government Done to Our Money? Just reading those books will give you a better understanding of economics and the basis of law than 99% of the population.
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There are so many good ones out there. Thinking of making a list.

http://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understand/dp/0517548232
"There are countless important books to consider, but the following are an excellent starting point: The Law by Frédéric Bastiat; Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt; What has Government Done to our Money? by Murray Rothbard; The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek; and Economics for Real People by Gene Callahan."
 
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New York Times and Amazon.com #1 bestseller in May 2008.
 
Other considerations:

Leviathan–Thomas Hobbes
Second Treatise of Civil Government; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding–John Locke
American Crisis; Common Sense; Rights of Man–Thomas Paine
The Prince–Niccolo Machiavelli
The Social Contract–Jean-Jacques Rousseau
On Liberty–John Stuart Mills
Art of War–Sun Tzu
Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey–Lao Tzu (Revisioned by: Stephen Mitchell)
 
randpaul2016 said:
This will be my FIRST book purchase.

Liberty Defined by Ron Paul
Government Bullies by Rand Paul
Rebloodicans and Democrips by Jesse Ventura
????
Plato Republic?

I DONT read books lol But am going to buy 1 for a looong plane ride (vacation).


Anyone here read any? Recommendations?


I also might pick up reading as a new hobby, just to educate myself more. Figured out rather than spending time on the internet learning stuff that way, I might get more out of reading a book.
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The Rand Paul book is the best one, the Ron Paul one is 2nd.

The Ventura book is not that great, his earlier books are better.

If you want to read a dialogue, read Galileo's dialogue, they are a lot better than Plato.
 
Here is one of the greatest books ever written that Libertarians do not know about:

The Mexican Wars for Independence [Paperback]
Timothy J. Henderson (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Mexican-Wars-Independence-Timothy-Henderson/dp/0809069237

It is a short easy-to-read book. It covers the main people in the Revolution; Hidalgo, Allende, Guerrero, Mina, Morales, Iturbide, and Santa Ana.

Read this book and you will have new-found respect for the American Founding Fathers. This is a MUST-READ.
 
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