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Books The Incredible Bread Machine, R.W. Grant $15, 299 pp. A Study of Capitalism, Freedom, and the State Part 1: The Laissez Faire Capitalism that never was Part 2: The three priciples of capitalism and the free society Part 3: The Principles ignored - How political force disrupts our lives Part 4: The principles applied: Alternatives to Political force Part 5: What now? Twilight of the state and more The Machinery of Freedom, by David Friedman, $19 This book argues the case for a society organized by private property, individual rights, and voluntary co-operation, with little or no government. David Friedman's standpoint, known as "anarcho-capitalism," has attracted a growing following as a desireable social ideal since the first edition appeared in 1971. This new edition is thoroughly revised and includes much new material, exploring fresh applications of the author's libertarian principles. Among topics covered: how the U.S. would benefit from unrestricted immigration; why prohibition of drugs is inconsistent with a free society; why the welfare state mainly takes from the poor to help the not-so-poor; how police protection, law courts, and new laws could all be provided privately; what life was really like under the anachist legal system of medeval Iceland; why non-intervention is the best foreign policy; why no simple moreal rules can generate acceptable social policies - and why these policies must be derived in part from the new discipline of economic analysis of law. Liquid Gold - The lore and logic of using urine to grow plants, $15 by Carol Steinfeld Everyday we urinate nutrients that can fertilize plants - plants that could be used for beautiful landscapes, food, fuel, and fiber. Instead, these nutrients are flushed away and treated at high cost, or they are dischaged to waters where they overfertilize and choke off aquatic life. Urine accounts for most of the nutrients in domestic wastewater, and it usually carries no disease risk. Liquid Gold: The lore and logic us using urine to grow plants tells you how to put it to work as a resouce. Starting with a short history of urine use (from ritual to medicinal to even culinary) and a look at some unexpected urinals, Liquid Gold show how urine is used worldwide to grow food and landscapes, while protecting the environment, saving its users the cost of fertilizer, and reconnecyting epople to the land and the nutrient cycles that sustain them. That's real flower power! The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook, Claire Wolfe, $15 In stock! America is in that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards . . . The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrant's greatest enemies." Clair e Wolfe is back and has expanded her original 101 things to do until the revolution to now 179 things. Some are serious, some are fun. Some will work for nearly anyone; some will work for those who are more radical. All of them will shore up the privacy barrier - a barrier that has become nonexistent in places where corporate interestes, the Patriot Acet, and other legislation designed to keep up the facade of protecting our freedom and security has been dissolved. It's up to you to make the choice to do something, but if yo have been sitting back waiting for the water to a little hotter and more ncomfortable before you jump out of the vat, at least Claire gives you some tools with which to work and plan. From the table of contents: Get your private informatino out of the public eye - Don't talk to strangers - Don't get too hung up on financial security - Never beg for your rights - Don't let the government control your kids - Get started with PGP - Protect your medical privacy - Assume all phones are tapped and the Internet too - Instead of television - Simple alternative to health insurance - Community: the most radical idea - Your three-day grab-and-go kit - Stand up for people who stand up for their rights - Find out what your dirver's licencse says about you - Hididng things in plain sight - and so much more! A Vision of Liberty, Jim Davies, $13. For ten thousand years, governments have denied every person's basic right to own and operate his own life - resulting in distortion, mayhem, destruction, misery and death; in the 20th Century alone they murdered 160 million people supposedly under their "protection." During the 2010s and early 2020s Americans learned how to manage without them, and in 2027 the last remaining government employee walked out of his office and turned out the light. Then began the most thrilling experiment in human history: FREEDOM  Time-traveler Jim Davies reports for us in A Vision of Liberty how the new era progressed in its first three years. Jim was raised in England and holds a Master's from Cambridge, as a member of the college where Sir Isaac Newton discovered how gravity works, where Lord Acton taught that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" and where Lord Keynes either didn't listen, or didn't care. Jim does.
or Advance Praise for A Vision of Liberty: Utterly wonderful. Thank you for this. It's just the kind of inspiration so lacking in libertarian literature. Brian Nickerson Jim nailed it. This is what life in freedom would be like. Anthony I S Alexander, collaborator in the creation of the Tannehills' classic, The Market for Liberty. 'Where there is no vision, the people perish' - Jim has removed that danger.
Per Bylund, founder, anarchism.net  Whatever Happened to Justice? $18. By Richard Maybury (256 pp. Ages 10 to adult)
“. . . critical reading for all Americans. If our economical and political downfall are to be avoided, we must expose an entire generation of Americans to the ideas found in this wonderful book.” –Ron Paul  This is must reading for anyone with aspirations to political office, and those who wish to understand the basics of politics. Do you know the difference between Natural/Common Law and Political Law, and the results of each of them? Did you know that the founding fathers did not like democracy and didn’t trust it? They wanted Liberty. The Constitution says nothing about Democracy. Explains the Legal Model and explores America’s legal heritage, what’s gone wrong with our legal system and economy and how to fix it. Richard Maybury examines: 1) There is a higher law than any government’s law. 2) The government’s law often contradicts Higher law. 3) Individuals must choose which law they will support and defend.
 Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? $15. By Richard Maybury (192 pp. Ages 10 to Adult) This book is written for people who think economics, business, and money is beyond them and best left to experts. In Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Richard Maybury uses historical events from Ancient Rome to explain economic principles. This clearly written book about economics is a remarkably easy and fun explanation of investment cycles, velocity, business cycles, recessions, inflation, the demand for money and more. Essential for every student, business person and investor. Excerpt: “In my opinion, the quickest and easiest way to understand history is to study the history of money, especially gold and silver. This is because money is a mirror of civilization. Throughout history, whenever we find good, reliable noninflated money, we almost always find a strong, healthy civilization. Whenever we find unreliable, inflated money, we almost always find a civilization in decay.” A Foreign Policy of Freedom $20. by Ron Paul, Congressman and 2008 Presidential Candidate In stock! There is one and only one voice in Congress for a foreign policy of freedom, and it belongs to Ron Paul, who has stood alone for freedom for many years. Ron is the seemingly impossible: a voice for reason and truth in a den of thieves.  A Foreign Policy of Freedom is his 372-page manifesto, a collection of inspired statements to the House of Representatives that show him to be the most consistent and morally responsible politician, perhaps, in the whole of American history.
This book takes on a special significance with his 2008 run for the US presidency. Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., writes the introduction. Recently, you might have heard Ron condemning foreign aid, the Iraq War, our vast and needlessly growing military budgets, bombings of this country and that, troops in most all countries in the world, and all the other meddlesome activities of the US empire. This foreign policy, Congressman Paul has pointed out, is contrary to American ideals, diminishes American liberty, and ends up making worse the very problems it seeks to alleviate. But did you know that Ron has been delivering this message through thick and thin from his first day in Congress in 1976 until the present day? That's 31 years of prophetic warnings, 31 years of courageous stands against the tide, 31 years of being proven right by subsequent events. There are no flip-flops, backpeddles, regrets, or coverups. He has told the truth again and again, no matter what it cost him. In the middle of the Cold War, he decried the endless streams of subsidies from the US to communist governments. At the same time, he stood firm against aid to insurgents seeking to overthrow those regimes. He sensibly pointed out that the Soviet Union would collapse if it had to face financial reality, and an end to US aid would make that possible. He has been a stickler on the power of the presidency, refusing to grant the president authority to start wars without Congressional approval. Herein you will find a chronicle of hypocrisy. Paul condemned the policy that subsidized Saddam Hussein, and the policy that waged war on Iraq and killed Saddam. The same is true of Noriega in Panama and the "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan who later made up the shock troops of Al-Qaeda. "Our experiment with foreign policy interventionism has failed, just as our experience with domestic economic interventionism has failed," he said in 1982. He said the same in mid-1990s. "War, and the threat of war, are big government's best friend," he wrote only recently. "Liberals support big government social programs, and conservatives support big government war policies, thus satisfying two major special interest groups. And when push comes to shove, the two groups cooperate and support big government across the board — always at the expense of personal liberty. Both sides pay lip service to freedom, but neither stands against the welfare-warfare state and its promises of unlimited entitlements and endless war." In many ways, this book is a history of a quarter century of folly, told by a man who saw what others did not, and had the temerity to state his view publicly. No voice for peace has been as consistent in the demand that government stop its intervention across the board. No supporter of free markets has been so determined to apply the logic of liberty to all aspects of foreign policy. This book makes Ron Paul's place in history. There has never been anything so forthright, truth telling, and ultimately devastating from a US politician. Not since Taft has there been a book like this, and this one makes Taft's own classic seems vague and abstract by comparison. The Case for Gold, $24. by Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman, 245 pages, 6" x 9", paperback  In 1982, Ron Paul served on the U.S. Gold Commission to evaluate the role of gold in the monetary system. In fact, the Commission was his idea. It was carrying forth a promise made in the Republican platform. Ron couldn't pick the members, so from the beginning, the deck was stacked. The majority was dominated by monetarists, who saw gold as too scarce and paper as just fine. Ron Paul's team was ready, however, with this marvelous minority report. Rarely has a dissent on a government commission done so much good! The result was The Case for Gold, and it was the greatest result of the commission. It covers the history of gold in the United States, explains that its breakdown was caused by governments, and explains the merit of having sound money: prices reflect market realities, government stays in check, and the people retain their freedom. The scholarship and rigor impressed even the critics of the minority. Ron and Lewis Lehrman worked with a team of economists that included Murray Rothbard, so it is hardly suprising that such a book would result. It still holds up as an excellent blueprint for moving beyond paper money and into the age of sound money. In particular, Ron favors complete monetary freedom to use any commodity as money, to make contracts in any money, and an end to the monopolization and printing power of the Federal Reserve. There is a strong piece of history in this book. Not since the 19th century has a political figure made such a sweeping and devastating case for radical monetary reform. This congressman ran circles around even the experts at the Fed. A dazzling performance indeed, and an inspiring and learned book.  What has Government done to our Money? The case for a 100% Gold Dollar
$20. by Murray Rothbard The Liberty Bell Store is pleased to present his very beautiful hardbound edition of Rothbard's most famous monetary essay--the one that has influenced two generations of economists, investors, and business professionals. The Mises Institute has united this book with its natural complement: a detailed reform proposal for a 100 percent gold dollar. "The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar" was written a decade before the last vestiges of the gold standard were abolished. His unique plan for making the dollar sound again still holds up. Some people have said: Rothbard tells us what is wrong with money but not what to do about it. Well, by adding this essay, the problem and the answer are united in a comprehensive whole. After presenting the basics of money and banking theory, he traces the decline of the dollar from the 18th century to the present, and provides lucid critiques of central banking, New Deal monetary policy, Nixonian fiat money, and fixed exchange rates. He also provides a blueprint for a return to a 100 percent reserve gold standard. The book made huge theoretical advances. He was the first to prove that the government, and only the government, can destroy money on a mass scale, and he showed exactly how they go about this dirty deed. But just as importantly, it is beautifully written. He tells a thrilling story because he loves the subject so much. The passion that Murray feels for the topic comes through in the prose and transfers to the reader. Readers become excited about the subject, and tell others. Students tell professors. Some, like the great Ron Paul of Texas, have even run for political office after having read it. Rothbard shows precisely how banks create money out of thin air and how the central bank, backed by government power, allows them to get away with it. He shows how exchange rates and interest rates would work in a true free market. When it comes to describing the end of the gold standard, he is not content to describe the big trends. He names names and ferrets out all the interest groups involved. Since Rothbard's death, scholars have worked to assess his legacy, and many of them agree that this little book is one of his most important. Though it has sometimes been inauspiciously packaged and is surprisingly short, its argument took huge strides toward explaining that it is impossible to understand public affairs in our time without understanding money and its destruction. This volume's contents include: - Preface by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
- I. Introduction by Murray Rothbard
- II. Money in a Free Society
- 1. The Value of Exchange
- 2. Barter
- 3. Indirect Exchange
- 4. Benefits of Money
- 5. The Monetary Unit
- 6. The Shape of Money
- 7. Private Coinage
- 8. The Proper Supply of Money
- 9. The Problem of Hoarding
- 10. Stabilize the Price Level?
- 11. Coexisting Moneys
- 12. Money-Warehouses
- 13. Summary
- III. Government Meddling With Money
- 1. The Revenue of Government
- 2. The Economic Effects of Inflation
- 3. Compulsory Monopoly of the Mint
- 4. Debasement
- 5. Gresham's Law and Coinage
- 6. Summary: Government and Coinage
- 7. Permitting Banks to Refuse Payment
- 8. Central Banking: Removing the Checks on Inflation
- 9. Central Banking: Directing the Inflation
- 10. Going Off the Gold Standard
- 11. Fiat Money and the Gold Problem
- 12. Fiat Money and Gresham's Law
- 13. Government and Money
- IV. The Monetary Breakdown of the West
- 1. Phase I: The Classical Gold Standard, 1815-1914
- 2. Phase II: World War I and After
- 3. Phase III: The Gold Exchange Standard (Britain and the United States) 1926-1931
- 4. Phase IV: Fluctuating Fiat Currencies, 1931-1945...
- 5. Phase V: Bretton Woods and the New Gold Exchange Standard (the United States) 1945 1968
- 6. Phase VI: The Unraveling of Bretton Woods, 1968-1971
- 7. Phase VII: The End of Bretton Woods: Fluctuating Fiat Currencies, August-December, 1971
- 8. Phase VIII: The Smithsonian Agreement, December 1971-February 1973
- 9. Phase IX: Fluctuating Fiat Currencies, March 1973-?
- The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar
- Preface by Murray Rothbard
- 1. The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar
- 2. Money and Freedom
- 3. The Dollar: Independent Name or Unit of Weight?
- 4. Monopolizing the Mint
- 5. Encouraging Bank Inflation
- 6. 100 Percent Gold Banking
- 7. Objections to 100 Percent Gold
- 8. Professor Yeager and 100 Percent Gold
- 9. The 100 Percent Gold Tradition
- 10. The Road Ahead
ISBN 0945466447
Hardcover, 191 pages including index The Creature from Jekyll Island A second look at the Federal Reserve, $24. by G. Edward Griffen
 Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story — which it really is. But it's all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island is a "must read." Your world view will definitely change. You'll never trust a politician again — or a banker.
 Education - Free and Compulsary by Murray Rothbard, $6. What is it about today's school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have so many generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level of mediocrity? In this radical and scholarly monograph, out of print for two decades and restored according to the author's original, Murray N. Rothbard identifies the crucial feature of our educational system that dooms it to fail: at every level, from financing to attendance, the system relies on compulsion instead of voluntary consent. Certain consequences follow. The curriculum is politicized to reflect the ideological priorities of the regime in power. Standards are continually dumbed down to accommodate the least common denominator. The brightest children are not permitted to achieve their potential, the special- needs of individual children are neglected, and the mid-level learners become little more than cogs in a machine. The teachers themselves are hamstrung by a political apparatus that watches their every move. Rothbard explores the history of compulsory schooling to show that none of this is accident. The state has long used compulsory schooling, backed by egalitarian ideology, as a means of citizen control. In contrast, a market-based system of schools would adhere to a purely voluntary ethic, financed with private funds, and administered entirely by private enterprise. An interesting feature of this book is its promotion of individual, or home, schooling, long before the current popularity of the practice. As Kevin Ryan of Boston University points out in the introduction, if education reform is ever to bring about fundamental change, it will have to begin with a complete rethinking of public schooling that Rothbard offers here. Paperback, 57 pages including index. Mises and Austrian Economics, A Personal View Ron Paul $3.  Ron Paul deserves a high place in the history of liberty for being the only seriously principled statesman to serve in the US House of Representatives in the last quarter of the 20th century.
It should not be a surprise to discover that Ludwig von Mises had a huge impact on Congressman Paul's view of statesmanship. This essay is a moving tribute to Mises and a look into the mind of a remarkable politician. The Case Against the Fed (Federal Reserve System) by Murray Rothbard, $7.  The most powerful case against the American central bank ever written. This work begins with a mini-treatment of money and banking theory, and then plunges right in with the real history of the Federal Reserve System. Rothbard covers the struggle between competing elites and how they converged with the Fed.
Rothbard calls for the abolition of the central bank and a restoration of the gold standard. His popular treatment incorporates the best and most up-to-date scholarship on the Fed's origins and effects. The contents of this volume include: - Introduction: Money and Politics
- The Genesis of Money
- What is the Optimum Quantity of Money?
- Monetary Inflation and Counterfeiting
- Legalized Counterfeiting
- Loan Banking
- Deposit Banking
- Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: The Criminal Law
- Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: Insolvency
- Booms and Busts
- Types of Warehouse Receipts
- Enter the Central Bank
- Easing the Limits on Bank Credit Expansion
- The Central Bank Buys Assets
- Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Advent of the National Banking System
- Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Steet Discontent
- Putting Cartelization Across: The Progressive Line
- Putting a Central Bank Across: Manipulating a Movement, 1897-1902
- The Central Bank Movement Revives, 1906-1910
- Culmination at Jekyll Island
- The Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation
- The New Deal and the Displacement of the Morgans
- Deposit "Insurance"
- How the Fed Rules and Inflates
- What Can Be Done?
ISBN 0-945466-17-X 158 pp. The Case for a 100% Gold Dollar, by Murray Rothbard $4.  Rothbard not only argues for the gold standard; he shows how it can be restored in a practical, step-by-step plan. No other system will stop the seemingly endless monetary inflation of the Federal Reserve system. He also makes his strongest case against fractional reserve banking. This essay was written in 1962 and this edition includes Rothbard's sweeping introduction from 1991, in which he argues that the true gold standard is more viable than ever.
Contents of this volume include: - The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar
- Money and Freedom
- The Dollar: Independent Name or Unit of Weight
- The Decline from Weight to Name: Monopolizing the Mint
- The Decline from Weight to Name: Encouraging Bank Inflation
- 100 Percent Gold Banking
- Objections to 100 Percent Gold
- Professor Yeager and 100 Percent Gold
- The 100 Percent Gold Tradition
- The Road Ahead
ISBN 0-945466-34-X
75 pp. (pb)  The Economics of Liberty, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, $5. This collection of short, entertaining articles exposes how government interference with the economy violates individual liberty, leads to inefficiencies, and rewards special interests. Contributors include Murray Rothbard, Walter Block, David Gordon, Robert Higgs, and Tom Bethell. The contents of this volume include: - Introduction (Llewellyn H. Rockwell)
- I. Economic Truth vs. Political Power
- Outlawing Jobs: The Minimum Wage, Once More (Murray N. Rothbard)
- The Scourge of Unionism (Llewellyn H. Rockwell)
- Keynesianism Redux (Murray N. Rothbard)
- The Keynesian Dream (Murray N. Rothbard)
- The Free-Rider Confusion (Tom Bethell)
- Property Rights, Taxation, and the Supply-Siders (Tom Bethell)
- The Regulatory Attack on the Market (Llewellyn H. Rockwell)
- Are Savings Too Low? (Murray N. Rothbard)
- The "We" Fallacy (Sheldon L. Richman)
- U.S. Trade Law: Losing Its Bearings (Alex Taborrok)
- Statistics: Destroyed from Within? (Murray N. Rothbard)
- The Truth About Economic Forecasting (Graeme B. Littler)
- Michael R. Milken: Political Prisoner? (Llewellyn H. Rockwell)
- The Economic Wisdom of the Late Scholastics (Jeffrey A. Tucker)
- II. Debunking the Bankers
- Bring Back the Bank Run! (James Grant)
- Nick and Jim Dandy to the Rescue (Bradley Miller)
- Q&A on the S&L Mess (Murray N. Rothbard)
- Inflation Redux (Murray N. Rothbard)
- Faustian Economics (John V. Denson)
- A Gold Standard for Russia? (Murray N. Rothbard)
- The Source of the Business Cycle (Jeffrey A. Tucker)
- The Key to Sound Money (Edwin Vieira, Jr.)
- Foreclose on the World Bank (E. Cort Kirkwood)
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