1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Summary: Hans F. Sennholz, “Two Yardsticks of Morality” Hans F. Sennholz’s “Two Yardsticks of Morality” is a compact moral and political essay built around a stark contrast: people often condemn coercion, seizure, and ha...
Summary: Hans F. Sennholz, “A Bubble Economy” (1992) “A Bubble Economy” is a short policy-economic essay. Written amid recessionary weakness, it challenges the Keynesian and Federal Reserve view that monetary ease, low r...
Sennholz’s “A Different Inflation” is a short 1997 economic commentary on the U.S. financial boom of the mid-1990s. Its central claim is that inflation should not be identified only with rising consumer prices...
Summary of Hans F. Sennholz, “A Farewell” (1997) The file is a contributed chapter in a larger retrospective FEE volume, with running heads placing it in Reflection and Remembrance and the section “Charting the Course.”...
Hans F. Sennholz, “A Good Education” — Summary This file contains a single short didactic essay. Sennholz defines education as moral formation rather than credentialing, then uses that definition to indict state-run scho...
Summary: Hans F. Sennholz, “A Weak Dollar” Hans F. Sennholz’s “A Weak Dollar” is a short single-author policy essay and monetary polemic, dated from notes in August 1994...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Affirmative Action” — Summary This file is a short polemical economic essay. Sennholz treats affirmative action as a case study in what he sees as the self-defeating logic of political intervention: go...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Ambivalent Voters” — Summary This file is a short political-economic essay. Sennholz’s scope is the American fiscal state: federal debt, transfer payments, voter behavior, and the moral status of democ...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Balancing the Budget” (1997) This short March 1997 policy essay is a polemical fiscal commentary. Sennholz’s scope is the federal balanced-budget debate of the late 1990s, but his target is broader: th...
Summary: Hans F. Sennholz, “Boom Without End” (1997) Hans F. Sennholz’s “Boom Without End” is a short, single-author economic commentary from December 1997...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Budget Deficits” (1995/1997) This short political-economic essay, dated April 1995 and later printed under the title “Budget Deficits,” argues that federal deficit finance is not a technical budget pro...
Summary: Hans F. Sennholz, “Congressional Profligacy” This file is a short political-economic essay. Sennholz’s scope is narrow but ambitious: he uses the federal debt as an entry point into a moral and institutional cri...