1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Murray N. Rothbard, “A Walk on the Supply Side” — Summary Rothbard’s “A Walk on the Supply Side,” collected in Making Economic Sense, is a compact polemic against supply-side economics as an intellectual fashion of the l...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Airport Congestion: A Case of Market Failure?” (1985) This file is a short single-author political-economic essay, later collected as a chapter in Rothbard’s broader critique of regulation and interv...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Competition at Work: Xerox at 25” — Summary This short polemical business essay uses the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Xerox 914 to make a broader argument about innovation, firm size, and competit...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Deductibility and Subsidy” (1985) — Summary This file is a brief single-author political-economic essay...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Flat Tax or Flat Taxpayer?” (1985) “Flat Tax or Flat Taxpayer?” is a short polemical economic essay on the U.S. Treasury’s 1986 draft tax plan and the academic celebration of a flatter income tax...
Professor Hébert on Entrepreneurship — Summary Rothbard’s essay intervenes in an Austrian dispute over whether entrepreneurship can be separated from uncertainty, capital, and ownership...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Crusade Against South Africa” (1985) This file is a short single-author polemical essay. Its scope is narrow: Rothbard addresses the mid-1980s American campaign for university divestment, embargo...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “The Politics of Famine” (1985) This file is a brief polemical essay in political economy, written amid public debate over famine relief, especially in Ethiopia...
“The Water Is Not Running” is a short polemical economic essay, presented as a chapter in Rothbard’s broader critique of welfare-state socialism...
Summary “A Trip to Poland” is a short first-person political travel essay by Murray N. Rothbard, recounting a March 1986 conference in northern Poland and using that episode to contrast Eastern bloc intellectual dissent...
Murray N. Rothbard, “First Step Back to Gold” (1986) This file is a short polemical monetary-policy essay. Rothbard’s scope is narrow—the 1986 minting of the American Eagle gold coin—but he treats that event as a test of...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “Government vs. Natural Resources” (1986) This file is a short polemical economics chapter. Rothbard’s scope is narrow but programmatic: he contests the environmental claim that private capit...