 | Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $14.65 From 2009. An excellent analysis of the roots of the market collapse and how the heavy hand of the government was at fault and not the invisible hand of Adam Smith.
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 | Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $4.55 from 1980. A companion book to a PBS mini-series. This book was very influential in getting me to pay attention to economics. Timeless and very readable.
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 | The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $3.75 A great basic guide for beginners to this field. Read some of the Amazon reviews to get an idea of the reader response.
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 | The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire by Andrew Bernstein
Buy new: $33.34 / Used from: $17.94 published in 2005; historical defense of capitalism
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 | Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition by Milton Friedman
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $7.25 Originally published in 1962. The classic book that influenced Reagan, myself, and so many others.
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 | Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century by Deepak Lal
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $12.94 From the description and reviews, a historical defense of ideas that I would describe as "capitalism"
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 | Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $4.86 Published in 1946. A classic introduction to free markets.
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 | Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $15.75 / Used from: $7.24 Published in 1957 and perhaps more relevant today than ever.
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 | Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.94 From 1966. Non-fiction essays from Any Rand. Some are dated, others are interesting in their over-the-top way.
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 | The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (Studies in Ethics and Economics) by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Buy new: $18.76 / Used from: $14.11 Wait a minute -- don't give Protestants all the credit for free market capitalism. Catholics gave birth to it as well as Woods demonstrates here.
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 | The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $5.11 I love this book for its demonstration that the government's actions did not pull the country out of the Great Depression.
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 | How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present by Thomas DiLorenzo
Buy used from: $3.50 Dilorenzo calls it an "untold" story. It's been told but this book tells it well and focused on the role of capitalists, good and bad
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 | The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $9.50 A great book for the big picture.
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 | The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen by Arthur B. Laffer
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $1.54 From 2009. A look at the current situation and a defense of capitalism
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 | On The Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World by P. J. O'Rourke
Buy new: $10.14 / Used from: $1.78 An introduction to the Adam Smith classic
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 | The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, 2nd Edition by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $35.51 The basics of private property explained by a master of the Austrian school
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 | Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse (Lynn Sonberg Books) by Peter D. Schiff
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $5.23 I should have read this two years ago, but we can read it now.
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