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Mises traces money from individual valuations through bank-issued claims, capital, price ceilings and convertibility rules, showing what monetary policy cannot create.

DiLorenzo's 2012 collection of 52 essays applies incentive analysis to rulemakers and their funding; read it and test its sweeping claims.

Walter Block argues all roads need private ownership and market provision, testing that case against congestion, accidents, insurance, holdouts and Tullock.

Rothbard's short monetary primer traces money from market exchange through bank claims and coin ratios to the end of gold redemption.

Murphy's introductory textbook derives specialization, saving, profit, calculation, price controls and business cycles from purposeful choice, counting forgone alternatives as costs.

Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson guides beginners through prices, machinery, employment and saving, tracing economic consequences for all groups over time.