1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
This file is a single-authored conference paper: Rothbard’s polemical assessment of Austrian economics after the 1970s revival...
“Value Implications of Economic Theory” — Summary Rothbard’s essay is a methodological argument about the limits of economic science in public policy...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “What is the Proper Way to Study Man?” This is a short single-author review essay. Rothbard reviews three books—Ludwig von Mises’s Epistemological Problems of Economics, Louise Sommer’s edite...
Murray N. Rothbard, Education: Free & Compulsory (1999) Rothbard’s pamphlet argues from a libertarian perspective that compulsory schooling violates parental authority and promotes political uniformity...
Murray N. Rothbard’s Das Schein-Geld-System, the German translation of What Has Government Done to Our Money?, is a compact Austrian-libertarian theory and history of money...
Ludwig von Mises and the Paradigm for Our Age — Summary Rothbard’s essay is a methodological and political defense of Ludwig von Mises as the economist whose system can replace the dominant positivist paradigm...
Murray N. Rothbard, “National Liberation” (orig. 1974) This short polemical essay uses the Northern Ireland crisis to restate a libertarian case for national self-determination...
Murray N. Rothbard, “War, Peace, and the State” This file is a single argumentative essay/chapter in libertarian political theory...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar Rothbard’s essay, first published in 1962 and later framed by a retrospective preface, is not a plea for restoring the imperfect pre-1933 system...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Political Thought of Étienne de La Boétie” Rothbard’s essay rescues La Boétie from Montaigne’s shadow and from the narrower history of Huguenot resistance theory...
Murray N. Rothbard, Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics (1956) Rothbard’s essay attempts to rebuild utility and welfare economics by stripping them of measurable utility, hypothetical preference sche...
Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué — Summary Rothbard reads Frank S. Meyer less as the successful theorist of fusionism than as evidence that fusionism cannot stand as an independent political philosophy...