What great timing. Just as I was beginning to discuss with various friends and acquaintances how to include economics in homeschooling, Mises.org releases this thorough set of recommendations.

Note this comment from Jim Fedako:

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy was the book that introduced me – at age 38 – to Austrian Economics. I read the book after my wife bought it as an economics text for my oldest son. Penny Candy shook my neoclassical background to the core, in an evening nonetheless.

The book is a great introduction to the free market for middleschoolers, highschoolers, and adults who haven’t yet shed the statist influences of public education.

A truly excellent book!

Here’s one that could have been written by George Reisman himself:

A wonderful Hayek quote via Sudha Shenoy:

[E]xclusive knowledge of a single sector of the social sciences is of little use…. While you may be a very useful member of society if you are a competent chemist or biologist but know nothing else, you will not be a useful member of society if you know only economics or political science and nothing else. You cannot successfully use your technical knowledge unless you are a fairly educated person, and, in particular, have some knowledge of the whole field of the social sciences as well as some knowledge of history and philosophy…. But if you know only economics and nothing else, you will be a bane to mankind, good, perhaps, for writing articles for other economists to read, but for nothing else.”

The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, p. 42.