1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Murray N. Rothbard, “In Defense of ‘Extreme Apriorism’” — Summary Rothbard’s essay intervenes in the Machlup-Hutchison debate over economic method by arguing that both sides miss the most important alternative: Misesian...
Rothbard’s text is a single-author scholarly essay/chapter in the history of economic thought and methodology. Its scope is focused: it rereads the Mises-Lange socialist-calculation controversy through Oskar Lange’s late...
“Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution” — Summary Murray N. Rothbard’s essay reconstructs environmental tort law from libertarian first principles...
Rothbard’s essay reconstructs the socialist-calculation debate as a dispute not over technical administration but over the institutional preconditions of rational economic choice...
Summary: “Money, the State, and Modern Mercantilism” Rothbard’s essay combines monetary theory with revisionist economic history...
New Light on the Prehistory of the Austrian School — Summary Rothbard’s essay is a historiographical reconstruction of Austrian economics before Menger...
Praxeology as the Method of the Social Sciences — Summary This file is a single methodological essay by Murray N. Rothbard, organized around three movements: a critique of positivist economics, a reconstruction of the pr...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Praxeology, Value Judgments, and Public Policy” Rothbard’s essay is a methodological argument about what economics can and cannot do in public controversy...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics” (1997) This file is a single-authored methodological essay/chapter...
This file is a single-author monetary-policy essay by Murray N. Rothbard, originally a chapter-length intervention in Austrian monetary theory...
The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited — Summary Rothbard’s essay revisits the socialist calculation debate after the collapse of Soviet-style planning, presenting that collapse as belated confirmation...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Myth of Efficiency” — Summary This file is a short, single-author theoretical essay, originally a comment on Mario Rizzo’s critique of efficiency in law-and-economics...