1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Hans F. Sennholz’s “Jubilee 2000” is a short policy-theological essay, written in April 1999, against the campaign for sweeping cancellation of poor-country debt. Its scope is not a technical debt model but an ethical and political-economic argument: Sennholz asks whether debt forgiveness actually helps the poor or instead rewards the institutions and rulers who helped produce poverty.
Hans F. Sennholz’s essay is a commemorative intellectual memoir that presents Mises as teacher, theorist, and embattled defender of capitalist civilization. The opening is personal: after immigrating, Sennholz sought American training and chose NYU because Mises taught there. This autobiographical frame matters because the essay treats Mises’s legacy as something transmitted through seminars, students, books, and acts of public loyalty such as the Festschrift and honorary degree.
This file is a single-author economic essay: a short, topical intervention on the late-1990s stock-market boom, the Internet economy, Federal Reserve policy, and the likelihood of an Austrian-style correction. Sennholz’s thesis is that the “new economy” contained genuine technological change but that Wall Street converted it into a speculative bubble, sustained less by profits than by faith, credit expansion, and policy accommodation.
Hans F. Sennholz’s “Globalization Under Fire” is a polemical essay in political economy that defends globalization as peaceful exchange made possible by falling trade barriers, post-Soviet liberalization, capital mobility, and international production. Its governing claim is that globalization is not a conspiracy against workers, nations, or cultures, but an expansion of voluntary cooperation; the true danger lies in protectionist politics, subsidies, and international economic management.
This file is a short single-author economic essay. Written in July 2000, it is an Austrian-style diagnosis of the late-1990s U.S. boom, treating the strong dollar, trade deficits, debt growth, derivatives, equity inflation, and Federal Reserve policy as interconnected signs of an unstable credit expansion rather than a durable “new economy.”
Sennholz’s essay interprets Japan’s postwar rise, 1980s asset boom, and 1990s stagnation as a warning about interventionist credit policy. It is not a neutral economic history but an Austrian-style argument: Japan’s real achievements came from saving, enterprise, and capital formation, while its malaise came from monetary expansion, protected banking losses, deficit spending, and the refusal to let markets liquidate bad investments.
Genre and scope: this is a short single-author economic essay, dated November 2000. Sennholz’s main thesis is that America’s record current-account deficits should not be read through mercantilist fear of imports or blamed chiefly on Asian financial turmoil. They arise from the dollar’s exceptional role as world money, from Federal Reserve credit expansion, and from foreign willingness to hold dollar assets. The danger is not an accounting “deficit” as such, but dependence on continued global confidence in the fiat dollar.
Hans F. Sennholz’s 1984 pamphlet argues that hidden production is not a marginal curiosity but the predictable counterpart of the tax-and-regulatory state. He frames informal exchange historically, as a recurrent way ordinary people preserve work, income, and trade when official rules make lawful production costly or impossible.
This is a short single-author political essay, written immediately after September 11 and later paginated in Foreign Maladies. It argues that the attacks revealed a changed form of conflict: the United States faced neither a normal state adversary nor a conventional army, but clandestine terror directed at the conditions of social cooperation. Sennholz's central thesis is that the United States must defend itself, yet not by launching an imperial, open-ended war that would deepen the forces it seeks to defeat.
This file is a short single-author monetary-economics essay, dated April 1999. Its scope is narrow but ambitious: Sennholz reads the late-1990s weakness of the dollar as a symptom of a deeper fiat-money and credit problem beneath the apparent success of low consumer-price inflation.
Hans F. Sennholz’s “A Pyramid of Debt” is a short single-author political-economic essay, dated April 2002, on federal borrowing, fiat money, external debt, housing, and military overreach. It is not a technical debt study but an Austrian polemic: American prosperity and power rest on a stack of government, household, banking, and foreign claims whose stability depends on confidence in the dollar. Its thesis is that deficits consume capital, inflation masks repayment, and a run from dollar assets could turn financial predominance into fragility.
This file is a single-author political-economic travel essay. Hans F. Sennholz uses a brief 2002 visit to Russia as the occasion for an Austrian-economics diagnosis of post-Soviet transition: why the move from command socialism to democracy, property, and markets remained slow, painful, and morally confused.