Austrian Economic Reads of 2013 (41 books)

Books published in the year 2013 that champions the principles of Austrian economics, freedom, Laissez-faire, and capitalism. SELF PROMOTION IS NOT ALLOWED.

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1	Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better by Clive Thompson 3.94 avg rating — 2,486 ratings score: 174, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	What's Wrong with Fat? by Abigail C. Saguy 4.09 avg rating — 223 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Moneywood: Hollywood in Its Last Age of Excess by William Stadiem 2.46 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Bully Nation: Why America's Approach to Childhood Aggression is Bad for Everyone by Susan Eva Porter 3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman 3.89 avg rating — 718 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson 4.01 avg rating — 218 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Totally Incorrect: Conversations with Doug Casey by Douglas R. Casey 3.78 avg rating — 87 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity by Bernard A. Lietaer 4.03 avg rating — 134 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay by Jess Bravin 4.12 avg rating — 113 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future by Samuel Gregg really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge by Marjorie Heins 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Coolidge by Amity Shlaes (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 7,430 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President by Charles C. Johnson 3.82 avg rating — 106 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century by Alex Sayf Cummings (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Homeland (Little Brother, #2) by Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 9,597 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet by Ramez Naam (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 572 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory by Jesse Walker 3.56 avg rating — 977 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 460 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasr 3.74 avg rating — 487 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Snob Zones: Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate by Lisa Prevost 3.66 avg rating — 58 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? by Steven Raphael 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion by Virginia Postrel (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 311 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	How Money Walks - How $2 Trillion Moved Between the States, and Why It Matters by Travis H. Brown 3.32 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill 4.08 avg rating — 5,098 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The King of Sports: Football's Impact on America by Gregg Easterbrook (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 431 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine by Peter W. Huber 3.83 avg rating — 53 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty by Nina Munk (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 1,459 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling by Jal Mehta 3.85 avg rating — 89 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov 3.67 avg rating — 1,425 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown by Edward Shorter 3.42 avg rating — 77 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women by Carol Dyhouse (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 266 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Manipulation of Choice: Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism by Mark D. White (Goodreads Author) 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties by Fred Turner 3.98 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain by Robert Spoo 3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country by Andrew J. Bacevich 4.07 avg rating — 504 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Hbo Effect by Dean J. DeFino 3.52 avg rating — 58 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad by Brett Martin (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 3,521 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto by Matt Kibbe 3.81 avg rating — 717 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High by Mike Power 4.08 avg rating — 209 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis by Jessica M. Lepler 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate by Jayson Lusk (Goodreads Author) 3.35 avg rating — 208 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars