"Austrian" Books for the Romanian Reader
This section hosts Romanian versions of complete books as well as working translations.
In the right column one can see a „shelf” of our translated fundamental books of the Austrian School, such as Human Action or The Ethics of Liberty.
Recently, we have translated and published, both online and in print, Huerta de Soto's Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles.
At present, our most important translation project is Rothbard's For a New Liberty.
In case you found our work important and want us to keep on outputting for the Romanian readers, please seriously consider making a donation.
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Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles
„The significance of Jesús Huerta de Soto's new 681-page book, Dinero, crédito bancario y ciclos económicos (Money, bank credit, and business cycles), is precisely that it is the first Misesian treatise on money and banking to appear since the publication of Mises's original work eighty-eight years ago.” (J.G. Hülsmann). The international bestseller by Huerta de Soto is now available in romanian from the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
The Austrian view on Entrepreneurship and Equilibrium
In her PhD thesis, Diana Costea presents the treatment of entrepreneurship in the Austrian economic thought and gives a critical and comparative analysis, from this point of view, of the mainstream treatment of monopoly theory, equilibrium, economic calculation and the theory of the firm.
The Business Cycle In Modern Economic Theory
Marius Spiridon’s PhD thesis:
The present work is not a mainstream work, methodologically or from any other point of view. It poses questions at a fundamental level, both theoretically and institutionally. At the theoretical level, the work is part of the misesian praxeological tradition centered on the faith in the power of reason and human logic to analyse the laws that govern personal action and interactions, in other words what we usually call „social phenomena”. This praxeological vein is the underlying feature of the present work which is a plea not only for an explanation of the business cycle but also an illustration of the intellectual fertility of this kind of approach. The desire to go the fundamentals, characteristic for praxeology and economic science in general, is not abandon when we approach the institutional level. The current institutional framework, among the underlying features of which we can count the central bank, fractional reserve, budget deficits, public debt, welfare state, etc, is taken neither as the only one possible nor as unquestionably the best one. It must carefully be distinguish between the natural impossibility and the ideological impossibility. The later does not represent at all a valid argument against the serious discussion of the merits of alternative institutional arrangements.
For a New Liberty
Murray N. Rothbard
(The table of contents will be updated as new chapters are translated.)
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7. Împotriva socialismului educaţional
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9. Împotriva socialismului monetar
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12. În apărarea libertăţii naturale
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Original title: Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty. The Libertarian Manifesto, ediţie revizuită, Fox & Wilkes, San Francisco, 1994, pp. 119-141.
© 2002 by The Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.
© 2004 Institutul Ludwig von Mises - România pentru ediţia în limba română.
Human Action
Murray Rothbard has called Ludwig von Mises' Human Action "the Economic Bible of civilized man", and we confidently recommend it as vol. 1 of the discerning social scientists' Philokalia. So harmoniously sound is the Misesian edifice, that it is hard not to see in it (part of) the kataphatic dimension of a more complex spiritual whole. It will be most profitably read by those who can identify the Misesian spirit in every part of it, and place it above Mises' letter, in the time-honored tradition of his hard-core followers.
The first three parts explore the meaning of the methodological a priori and its place in the social sciences, while developing fundamental praxeology, from a first analysis of the category of action to the general principles of social cooperation and the role of calculative action. No understanding of catallactics, or economics proper, with price theory centered on the nature and possibility of economic calculation, is possible without a thorough grasp of these crucial introductory chapters.
One is swiftly lead to the conclusion that, in basic epistemology, empiricism quite literally kills, while rationalism leads to life. However, to paraphrase Mises, a sound (rationalist) approach to law & economics, and the interpretation of human events, requires caution and subtlety on every level, and the uncritical and superficial minds have again and again been led astray by the careless confusion of the epistemologically different methods implied.
We wish to thank Mrs. Bettina Bien Greaves, without whom this translation could not have been e-published on MisesRomania.org.
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible. A Free Market Odyssey
Innocence implies the ability to restrain from the initiation of aggression, and to question those who don't. A simple and funny way to gain this wisdom is by reading Ken Schoolland's book.
We wish to thank ISIL (The International Society for Individual Liberty), without whom this translation could not have been published on our site.
Bureaucracy
The most straightforward introduction to economic calculation and the Misesian paradigm. Thoroughly develops original insights into the economic mess (notably what Rothbard would later call "centers of calculational chaos") and socio-psychologic problems ("the bureaucratic mentality") inherent in bureaucratic state management.
Economic Policy. Thoughts for Today and for Tomorrow
Six lectures given by Mises in Buenos Aires in 1958, originally published as Economic Policy. Thoughts for today and for Tomorrow in 1979. The fact that the lectures were addressed to beginners makes them an ideal short introduction to the Austrian School and the Misesian way of thinking. Moreover, the book is important for its clear treatment of issues that are essential for the existence of an orderly society. Understanding these issues or changing one's views with respect to them, in the direction suggested by Mises, resembles a sudden environmental improvement, like a passage out of the dark and into the light. The book is also admirable for its robust continuity from one lecture to the next, this being an additional reason to read it, time and again.
Defending the Undefendable
"For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force ... It is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice."
St.
John Chrysostom,
On Priesthood.
Socialism. An Economic and Sociological Analysis
80 years after its first German edition, Socialism remains the cornerstone of any understanding of the socialist phenomenon. Mises builds on his irrefutable economic argument of the impossibility of economic calculation in a socialist community (first published in his 1920 article, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth) an exhaustive critique of all socialist theories.
The book is of interest not only for the wertfrei economist, who sees the Misesian method, of the suitability of the means to the ends sought, applied, but also for the political scientist, the historian, and the sociologist. One of the multiple advantages of the book is its systematic approach, opened to different levels of understanding.
The point of departure is correctly identified by Mises in the property issue, in its economically relevant dimension. Part one continues with the development of the concept of property and its consequence, the contract, in different parts of the social life: economic, political, family. (To be continued...)
Hi! I am wondering if any of you have read Ayn Rand? That could be a very interesting addition to your studies. Wishing you all the best! Here’s to Mises!!
Michael · 30 mai 2008, 00:59 · #