Reading List: Understanding Whole Life Insurance and Beyond
Maybe you have been intrigued by a topic on this site, and have decided to read more. It's hard to know where to start, especially when there is a lot of material out there that is misleading, or even just plain wrong. This list goes way beyond understanding whole life insurance, but rather spreads into several fields. I consider all of these important: Understanding more areas helps you understand each area that much better.
Here is an (expanding) list of books that I have read, and personally recommend to you for their insight. Obviously, that does not mean that I am giving a wholesale endorsement of every sentence in every book. I provide this because there is something to be gained from reading this material. No one is perfect, and authors of books are not exempt from this human limitation. If you are looking for advice on something extremely specific, please reach out and I will be happy to help if I can.
Please note that some books touch on many topics, and may be duplicated in different sections! This is a conscious decision and not an error.
Building Your Own Banking System / Understanding Whole Life Insurance:
Becoming Your Own Banker: Unlock the Infinite Banking Concept, by R. Nelson Nash
Building Your Warehouse of Wealth, by R. Nelson Nash
How Privatized Banking Really Works: Integrating Austrian Economics with the Infinite Banking Concept, by L. Carlos Lara and Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D.
The Case for IBC: How to Secede from Our Current Monetary Regime One Household at a Time, by R. Nelson Nash, L. Carlos Lara, and Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D.
Taxes
For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization, by Charles Adams
The Income Tax: Root of all Evil, by Frank Choderov
401(k)aos, by Andy Tanner
History
Conceived in Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
America's Great Depression, by Murray N. Rothbard
The Great Deformation, by David Stockman
Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History, by Milton Friedman
Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life, by Edward Peter Stringham
Requiem for Marx, by Yuri N. Maltsev
Democracy: The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by G. Edward Griffin
A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II, by Murray N. Rothbard
End the Fed, by Ron Paul
The Case Against the Fed, by Murray N. Rothbard
Meltdown, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Education: Free and Compulsory, by Murray N. Rothbard
Fascism Versus Capitalism, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden
Dark Alliance, by Gary Webb
The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins
Theory and History, by Ludwig von Mises
Economics
Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt
I, Pencil, by Leonard E. Read
Man, Economy, and State, by Murray N. Rothbard
Human Action, by Ludwig von Mises
Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History, by Milton Friedman
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by G. Edward Griffin
A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II, by Murray N. Rothbard
Meltdown, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Defending the Undefendable, by Walter Block
Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action, by Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D.
Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies, by Murray N. Rothbard
Theory and History, by Ludwig von Mises
Building a Free Society
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, by Murray N. Rothbard
The Privatization of Roads & Highways: Human and Economic Factors, by Walter Block
Psychology and Philosophy
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, by Jordan B. Peterson
The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
Theory and History, by Ludwig von Mises
Self-Development
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan B. Peterson
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, by Jordan B. Peterson
Thinking as a Science, by Henry Hazlitt
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It, by Chris Voss
Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant, by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth, by T. Harv Eker
Business
Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat, by Michael Masterson
Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant, by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth, by T. Harv Eker
Politics and Law
The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat
Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Democracy: The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Anatomy of the State, by Murray N. Rothbard
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, by Murray N. Rothbard
The State, by Franz Oppenheimer
Fascism Versus Capitalism, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, by Étienne de la Boétie
Theory and History, by Ludwig von Mises
Health
The Primal Prescription: How to Navigate the "Sick Care" Sinkhole, by Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D. and Doug McGuff, M.D.
Fiction
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
Dune, by Frank Herbert
A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge
1984, by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
