1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Nationalism, Socialism, and Violent Revolution — Summary This file is a single-author, lecture-like essay in intellectual history and liberal political theory...
Profit and Loss, Private Property, and the Achievements of Capitalism — Summary This file is a single theoretical essay or lecture by Ludwig von Mises...
Mises presents modern civilization as the result of saving made intelligible by economic calculation. His “Crusoe economics” is not an attempt to model society as isolation, but to isolate the elementary fact that longer...
Profit & Loss — Ludwig von Mises Ludwig von Mises’s Profit and Loss is a compact defense of entrepreneurial profit as the central coordinating device of capitalism...
Ludwig von Mises, Der freie Markt und seine Feinde — Summary This file is a German translation of Mises’s 1951 Foundation for Economic Education lecture series, delivered over twelve days and framed by Richard Ebeling’s...
Marxism and the Manipulation of Man — Summary This lecture-essay, followed by a short question-and-answer addendum, surveys Marxism’s intellectual prestige and political uses rather than offering a technical economic cri...
Money, Interest, and the Business Cycle — Summary This file is a single-author theoretical lecture-essay, followed by brief question-and-answer comments...