1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
How Should Prices Be Determined? — Summary Henry Hazlitt’s “How Should Prices Be Determined?” is a concise policy essay, first published in The Freeman in February 1967, on the economic and legal problem of price formati...
Income Without Work — Summary This file is best read as a compact anti-guaranteed-income collection rather than as a single freestanding Hazlitt article...
This brief polemical economic article distills Henry Hazlitt’s anti-Keynesian critique into a compact argument about deficit spending, money creation, and the political amnesia surrounding inflation...
Market Prices vs. Communist Commands — Summary Hazlitt’s essay turns a question about Soviet agriculture into a compact restatement of the socialist calculation argument...
Henry Hazlitt, “On Appeasing Envy” — Summary The file is a single-author political-economic essay/chapter. Its scope is narrow but ambitious: Hazlitt treats envy as a moral-psychological force behind redistributive polit...
Henry Hazlitt, “Private Property, Public Purpose” — Summary This is a single-author classical-liberal economic essay, originally published in The Freeman...
Henry Hazlitt, “Rights” — Summary This file is a single argumentative essay in legal and political philosophy, originally published in The Freeman in 1964...
Should We Divide the Wealth? — Summary Henry Hazlitt’s Should We Divide the Wealth? is a single-author economic polemic, first published in The Freeman in February 1972...
Henry Hazlitt, “Herbert Spencer” — Summary This article-length chapter surveys Herbert Spencer’s political theory within Hazlitt’s broader account of nineteenth-century theories of government...
Henry Hazlitt, “The Sphere of Government: Nineteenth-Century Theories” — Summary Hazlitt’s essay continues his inquiry into the proper limits of state power by turning from modern minimal-state theory to nineteenth-centu...
Summary Henry Hazlitt’s The ABC of a Market Economy is a short didactic essay from The Freeman (February 1985), written as a primer on the institutional logic of markets, socialism, and intervention...
Henry Hazlitt, The Ballooning Welfare State — Summary This single-author essay, first published in The Freeman in April 1972, is a compact polemic on the institutional logic of welfare states...