1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Ludwig von Mises’s Foreign Investments and the Spirit of Capitalism presents foreign investment as a decisive episode in the uneven global diffusion of capitalism...
Individualism and the Industrial Revolution — Summary This file is a single-author polemical lecture/essay by Ludwig von Mises...
Ludwig von Mises, “Mind, Materialism, and the Fate of Man” (1952) This lecture opens Mises’s philosophical critique of Marxism by arguing that Marx’s enduring power lies less in economics than in a theory of mind, truth,...
Liberty and Property — Summary Liberty and Property is a lecture-essay in which Ludwig von Mises links the modern meaning of freedom to private ownership and the market economy...
Ludwig von Mises’s Letter to Alfred Müller-Armack, 14 November 1961 This file is a brief German-language letter, not a treatise, essay, or edited collection...
Ludwig von Mises, “On Equality and Inequality” (1961) This file is a single-author political-economic essay, organized in seven short sections...
Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science (1962) Mises’s late methodological essay defines economics as the most elaborated branch of praxeology, the science of human action...
This brief ceremonial address, delivered by Ludwig von Mises for Henry Hazlitt’s seventieth birthday in 1964, turns a tribute into a compact statement of classical liberal vocation...
Ludwig von Mises, “Monopole – Dichtung und Wahrheit” — Summary Mises’s 1965 essay treats the fear of inevitable capitalist monopoly as the successor to Marx’s discredited immiseration thesis...
Summary Mises’s Im Namen des Staates oder Die Gefahr des Kollektivismus, written in Geneva in 1938/39 and published only in 1978, diagnoses the doctrines that made modern war likely...
Ludwig von Mises, Notes and Recollections (1978) Mises’s Notes and Recollections is less a conventional autobiography than an intellectual deposition written in exile in 1940...
This file is an edited German translation of six public lectures on economic policy, delivered by Ludwig von Mises in Buenos Aires in 1958 and posthumously prepared for publication by Margit von Mises...