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Contents:

  1. Complete Histories
  2. American Economic History
  3. The Gilden Age and Progressive Era
  4. Early 20th Century and World War I
  5. The 1920s and Great Depression
  6. 1940s and Post World War II
  7. International Economic History

Complete Histories

History of Economic Analysis by Joseph Sschumpeter

A History of Interest Rates by Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History by Angus Maddison

Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation by Robert Schuettinger

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark


American Economic History

Conceived in Liberty by Murray Rothbard

How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo

A History of Currency in the United States by Alonzo Barton

A History of Money and Banking: The Colonial Era to World War II by Murray Rothbard

A History of American Currency with Chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper Money by Willliam Sumner

The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Bootrls from Colonial Days to the Present Time by A. M. Sakolski

Tariff History of the United States by F.W. Taussig

The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies by Murray n. Rothbard

Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation by Mark Thorton


The Gilden Age and Progressive Era

The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914 by Robert Higgs

The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton Fulsom

History of Crises Under the National Banking System by O.M.W. Sprague

The Depression of 1873–1879: An Austrian Perspective by Patrick Newman

Railroads and Regulation: 1877-1916 by Gabriel Kolko

The Progressive Era by Murray Rothbard

Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure by Dominick Armentano

Americas Money Machine, The Story of the Federal Reserve by Elgin Groseclose

A Bubble That Broke the World by Garet Garrett

Economics and the Public Welfare by Benjamin Anderson

In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition by Butler Shaffer


Early 20th Century and World War I

War Collectivism by Murray Rothbard

War Collectivism and World War I by Murray Rothbard

Great Wars and Great Leaders by Ralph Raico

How the Fed Helped Pay for World War I by John Koning


The 1920s and Great Depression

Banking and the Business Cycle, A Study of the Great Depression in the United States by C. A. Phillips, T. F. McManus, and R. W. Nelson

The Depression of 1920–1921: A Credit Induced Boom and a Market Based Recovery? by Patrick Newman

America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard

Industrial Employment and the Policies of Herbert C. Hoover by D.W. MacKenzie

The Great Depression by Lionel Robbins

The Great Depression as a Credit Boom Gone Wrong by Barry Eichengreen and Kris Mitchener

Deflation and Economic Growth: The Great Depression as the Great Outlier by Pavel Ryska

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal by Robert Murphy

Great Myths of the Great Depression by Lawrence Read

The Gold Standard Did Not Cause the Great Depression by Robert Murphy

The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn


1940s and Post World War II

Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s by Robert Higgs

The Reality of the Wartime Economy More Historical Evidence on Whether World War II Ended the Great Depression by Seven Horowitz and Michael McPhillips

Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy by Robert Higgs

The Great Depression of 1946 by Richard Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway

Business Tides by Henry Hazlitt

Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs


International Economic History

The New Deal in Old Rome by H. J. Haskell

Early Speculative Bubbles and Increases in the Supply of Money by Douglas French

Fiat Money Inflation in France by Andrew White

Monetary and Economic Policy Problems Before, During, and After the Great War by Ludwig von Mises

The Economics of Inflation: A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany by Costantino Bresciani-Turroni

Exchange, Prices, and Production in Hyper-Inflation: Germany 1920-1923 by Frank Graham

The Causes of the Economic Crisis, and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression by Ludwig von Mises

When Money Destroys Nations: How Hyperinflation Ruined Zimbabwe, How Ordinary People Survived, and Warnings for Nations that Print Money by Phillip Haslam and Russell Lamberti