Reading List
Free Market Oriented Books
For Layman and Business Students

Most of these items are older classics. They can be read by everyone even if you have no special economics training.
Frederic Bastiat, The Law, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007. The original edition was published in 1850.
David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: Revised an updated edition of Libertarianism: A Primer. Simon and Schuster, 2015. This is a new book which I included because I just heard the author talk about the book.
John Chamberlain, The Roots of Capitalism. Liberty Press, 1976. The original edition was published in 1959 by Van Nostrand, Co.
Hernando DeSoto, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. Basic Books, 2000.
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1962. There are newer editions.
Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose. There was a TV series with the same title.
Gwartney, Lawson, & Hall, Economic Freedom of the World, Fraser Institute. Any current year.
Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson. Crown Publishers, Inc., 1979. The original edition was published in 1946.
F.A. Hayek, The Road To Serfdom, University of Chicago Press, 2007. The original edition was published in 1944.
R.A. Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order. University of Chicago Press 1980. The original edition was published in 1948.
Benjamin A. Rogge, Can Capitalism Survive. Liberty Fund, 1979.
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. Any of the many editions. Book I is his basic economics and theory of growth. Book is the famous discussion of Mercantilism.
Henry Grandy Weaver, Mainspring of Human Progress, The Foundation For Economic Education, 1947. There are newer editions.
Something Different – Mysteries with economic twists.
Hill and Dale, Death on Demand, Horton, 1985.
Wolfson and Buranelli, In the Long Run We Are All Dead, St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
Marshall Jevons, Murder at the Margin, Horton, 1978.
Marshall Jevons, A Deadly Indifference, Princeton University Press, 1995.