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Nonfiction · Economics

Human Action

Ludwig von Mises
1949 · 912 pages

Every economic law follows from one fact, Mises argues: people act to relieve uneasiness. Planners without market prices are blind, and three generations of the libertarian right have drawn their economics from him.

★ 5.8
Nonfiction · Economics

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith
1776 · 537 pages

Wealth is not gold in a vault but what a country produces, and specialization multiplies it. Smith begins with ten men making pins and every economic argument since descends from him.

★ 8.2