1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
The Soviet System's Economic Failure — Summary This file is a short polemical newspaper essay. Mises’s scope is narrow but strategic: he reframes the Cold War dispute over socialism and capitalism as a test of economic p...
The Symptomatic Keynes — Summary Mises’s essay is a polemical review of R. F. Harrod’s biography of John Maynard Keynes, but its real subject is the historical meaning of Keynes’s fame...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Trade Cycle” — Summary This file is a short single-author economic essay, reprinted from The Freeman in 1951...
Summary: The Why of Human Action The Why of Human Action is a short single-author polemical and retrospective essay, reprinted from Plain Talk in 1949...
Summary: Ludwig von Mises, “Unemployment and the Height of Wage Rates” This file is a short polemical economics essay by Ludwig von Mises, reprinted from Christian Economics in 1961...
Ludwig von Mises, “Wage Earners and Employers” — Summary This file is a short radio-broadcast essay. Its scope is narrow and polemical: Mises answers whether American wage earners and employers have opposed interests...
Ludwig von Mises’s “Wage Interference by Government” is a short, single-author economic polemic, reprinted from Christian Economics...
Why Read Adam Smith Today? — Summary This file is a short single-author introductory essay by Ludwig von Mises, written for a 1953 selection from The Wealth of Nations...
Inflation and You is a brief wartime essay in public economics, written for non-specialist Americans rather than for theorists...
Ludwig von Mises, Interventionism: An Economic Analysis (1940/1998) Written in 1940 and published from Mises’s papers in Bettina Bien Greaves’s 1998 edition, Interventionism is an immanent critique of the “third way.” Mi...
Ludwig von Mises, Epistemological Problems of Economics Ludwig von Mises’s Epistemological Problems of Economics is a single-author methodological essay volume, the English version of the 1933 Grundprobleme der Nationalö...
Mises, “The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics” — Summary Mises’s essay is both a history of the Austrian School and a defense of economics as a universal science of human action...