1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Henry Hazlitt, “The Case for the Minimal State” — Summary Hazlitt’s essay is a review of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia and, more broadly, a reflection on the old problem of political power: how to justify th...
This is a short, single-author article of popular political economy, first published in The Freeman in June 1972. Hazlitt uses the essay’s narrow compass to make a broad classical-liberal argument: poverty policy must be...
The Distribution of Income Henry Hazlitt’s “The Distribution of Income” is a single-author economic polemic, first published as a Freeman article...
The Literature of Freedom — Summary This file is a short programmatic essay and bibliographical introduction to Henry Hazlitt’s The Free Man’s Library, a wide-ranging guide to writings on individual freedom, free markets...
Henry Hazlitt’s “The Road Not Taken” is a retrospective libertarian policy essay on the decades after the founding of the Foundation for Economic Education...
Henry Hazlitt, “The Story of Negro Gains” — Summary This is a short single-author polemical economics article. Its scope is the economic status of Black Americans in the postwar United States, especially 1949–1969, and i...
Henry Hazlitt’s “The Task Confronting Libertarians” turns a familiar practical question—what can one person do?—into a broader strategic diagnosis of libertarian politics...
Henry Hazlitt, “The Torrent of Laws” (1979) Hazlitt’s essay is a short political-economic polemic, originally published in The Freeman, on legislative proliferation in the United States...
Henry Hazlitt’s “Uruguay: Welfare State Gone Wild” is a short polemical magazine essay in political economy, first published in The Freeman in 1969...
Summary Henry Hazlitt’s “Welfarism Gone Wild” is a compact libertarian polemic on American welfare from the New Deal to 1971...
Henry Hazlitt, “Why Anticapitalism Grows” (1983/1993) — Summary Hazlitt’s essay is a compact polemical reply to a young defender of free enterprise who faces ten recurring objections to capitalism...
Henry Hazlitt’s Why Some Are Poorer is a short economic-policy essay first published in The Freeman in January 1972. Its scope is historical mass poverty, residual poverty in affluent capitalist societies, and the limits...