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Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
by Charles P. Kindleberger
Hardcover price: $19.95
A highly regarded historical/theoretical explanation of why financial crises
keep happening.
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Gold Wars:The Battle Against Sound Money as Seen from a Swiss Perspective
by Ferdinand Lips
Paperback price: $19.95
A Swiss economist’s history of the abandonment of gold-as-money and the
ongoing attempts by central banks to manipulate the gold market.
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles MacKay
Hardcover price: $9.98
The classic history of humanity’s financial bubbles. The striking thing
about MacKay’s depiction of the Dutch Tulip mania and its many successors is
how familiar they seem.
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Human Action
by Ludwig von Mises
Paperback price: $24.95
Mises was one of the founders of the Austrian school of economics and
remains a deity in the sound-money world. This serious economics text is
well worth the effort.
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Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets
by Frank Partnoy
Paperback price: $15.00
An accessible explanation of how financial engineering in general and
derivatives in particular are corrupting global capitalism.
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Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression
by Robert Prechter.
Hardcover Price: $27.95
This book lays out, in terrifying detail, the theoretical basis for
Prechter’s prediction of a deflationary depression.
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The Case for the 100% Gold Dollar, and What Has Government Done to Our
Money?
by Murray Rothbard
Rothbard offers the libertarian take on the nature of money, and gold’s
potential in tomorrow’s monetary system. These, along with several of his
other books, can be downloaded free of charge from the Ludwig von Mises
Institute web site.
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