1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
This file is a short, single-author political-historical polemic: an August 1991 essay by Murray N. Rothbard. Its occasion is the exhumation of President Zachary Taylor, prompted by Clara Rising’s suspicion that Taylor’s...
Summary This file is a short polemical essay by Murray N. Rothbard: it assesses Margaret Thatcher’s premiership at the moment of her fall, measuring “Thatcherism” against libertarian standards rather than against Labour...
Frank Meyer and Sydney Hook — Summary This file is a short polemical essay by Murray N. Rothbard from January 1991. Its scope is strategic and intra-conservative: Rothbard rereads Frank Meyer’s fusionism and Sidney Hook’...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labor” — Summary Rothbard’s essay argues that freedom, inequality, and the division of labor are not separable social accidents but mutually supp...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Lessons of the Gulf War” (1991) — Summary Murray N. Rothbard’s “Lessons of the Gulf War” is an April 1991 satirical polemic about the domestic political ideology generated by the U.S.-led Gulf War...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Lessons of the Recession” (1991) Rothbard’s essay is a compact polemic on the 1990–91 downturn and on the intellectual habits that, in his view, made professional economists slow to recognize it...
This August 1991 polemical essay uses Thurgood Marshall’s retirement from the Supreme Court as the occasion for a broader attack on civil-rights jurisprudence, conservative accommodation to it, and judicial centralizatio...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Should We Bail Out Gorby?” — Summary This short political-economic essay, appearing as chapter 97 of Making Economic Sense, is Rothbard’s polemical intervention in the 1991 debate over American aid t...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Cyprus Question” (1991) This file is a short single-author political commentary. Rothbard uses George H. W...
Summary of “The Glorious Postwar World” This brief political-economic essay, chapter 104 of Murray N. Rothbard’s Making Economic Sense, is a polemic on the domestic consequences of war, written in the immediate aftermath...
This file is a single-author polemical political essay from December 1991. Its immediate scope is the Clarence Thomas–Anita Hill confirmation controversy, but Rothbard uses the episode to attack organized feminism, sexua...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Infant Mortality ‘Crisis’” Murray N. Rothbard’s “The Infant Mortality ‘Crisis’” is a short polemical chapter from Making Economic Sense, set within the welfare-policy section “The Socialism of We...