1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Summary: Ludwig von Mises, “The Agony of the Welfare State” This file is a single-author political-economic essay, originally reprinted from The Freeman in 1953...
The Economic Foundations of Freedom — Summary This file is a short, single-author political-economic essay by Ludwig von Mises, reprinted from The Freeman in 1960...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Economic Role of Saving and Capital Goods” This short economic essay is a compact Austrian argument about capital accumulation, wages, and intervention...
This file is a single political-economic essay, reprinted from The Freeman (1962). Its five sections move from inequality, to property, to “economic power,” to employer authority, and finally to the duty of the elite...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Market and the State” This file is a short political-economic essay. Mises’s scope is theoretical and polemical: he contrasts market cooperation with state coercion, argues that limited coercive go...
This file is a compact, single-author polemical essay in political economy and intellectual history. Mises’s central thesis is that Marxian class theory illicitly transfers the real conflicts of a status society into a c...
The Marxian Theory of Wage Rates — Summary Ludwig von Mises’s essay is a concentrated attack on Marxism at what he regards as its economic foundation: the doctrine that capitalist wages are forced down to bare subsistenc...
Summary: The Objectives of Economic Education Ludwig von Mises’s “The Objectives of Economic Education” is a short 1948 memorandum to Leonard E. Read, published as an extract rather than a treatise or collection...
This file is a short economic essay by Ludwig von Mises, reprinted from a 1966 periodical issue. Its scope is polemical and diagnostic: Mises moves from nineteenth-century foreign investment to twentieth-century national...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Plight of Business Forecasting” — Summary This file is a short reprinted magazine essay, followed by a brief editorial transition introducing “Mises as Critic.” Its main body is not a forecasting m...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Saver as a Voter” This short translated essay is a compact political-economic intervention on savings, inflation, and democratic responsibility...
This short 1955 review essay by Ludwig von Mises, reprinted from The Freeman, uses William E. Rappard’s book The Secret of American Prosperity as the occasion for a broader Cold War argument about capitalism, development...