Basic Introduction to Austrian School Economics and the Money System 

Books – Overviews

1.       The Revolution by Ron Paul (esp. Chapters 4 and 6) 
http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Manifesto-Ron-Paul/dp/0446537519 

2.       Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt 
http://prawo.uni.wroc.pl/~kwasnicki/EkonLit/Economics%20In%20One%20Lesson.pdf

3.       What Has Government Done to Our Money? / The Case for a 100% Gold Dollar by Murray Rothbard http://mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf

4.       The Case Against the Fed by Murray Rothbard
http://mises.org/books/fed.pdf  

5.       Economics for Real People by Gene Callahan
http://mises.org/resources/2031

Books – Applications to Current Events

1.       Meltdown by Thomas Woods
http://www.amazon.com/Meltdown-Free-Market-Collapsed-Government-Bailouts/dp/1596985879 

2.       Crash Proof by Peter Schiff
http://www.amazon.com/Crash-Proof-Economic-Collapse-Sonberg/dp/0470043601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240385552&sr=1-1
3.       The Left, the Right, and the State by Lew Rockwell
http://www.amazon.com/Left-Right-State-Llewellyn-Rockwell/dp/1933550201/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240385625&sr=1-1

Documentaries

1.       “Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve.”  Online documentary by the Mises Institute
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-466210540567002553 

Web Sites

1.       Ludwig von Mises Institute
http://www.mises.org

2.       Weekly articles by Peter Schiff
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/schiff/archive.html

3.       The Bailout Reader
http://mises.org/story/3128

4.       Sound Money Educational Archive
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/edu/sound-money.php