1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Summary: “Herbert Hoover and the Myth of Laissez-Faire” Murray N. Rothbard’s 1972 historical essay surveys Herbert Hoover’s political economy from the post–World War I “Reconstruction Program” through his presidency and...
Murray N. Rothbard, “War Collectivism in World War I” — Summary Rothbard’s essay treats U.S. economic mobilization in World War I not as a temporary emergency departure from capitalism, but as the formative episode in Am...
The Essential von Mises — Summary Rothbard’s The Essential von Mises is a short single-author introductory monograph: intellectual biography, doctrinal survey, and libertarian polemic...
This file is a single political-philosophical essay/polemic by Murray N. Rothbard. Although headers name the larger collection, the supplied body is one sustained argument...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Justice and Property Rights” (1974) Rothbard’s essay argues that free-market economics cannot rest on exchange alone, because exchange presupposes rightful ownership...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Kid Lib” (1974) — Summary This file is a single polemical libertarian essay, presented as chapter 7 of Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Anatomy of the State” — Summary Rothbard’s essay is a compact libertarian anatomy of political rule...
This file is a brief single-author memorial tribute or commemorative address by Murray Rothbard on Ludwig von Mises. Its scope is narrow but pointed: Rothbard recalls Mises personally, assesses his intellectual achieveme...
Summary: My New Year’s Wish For The Movement Rothbard’s New Year’s essay is a compressed, comic reprimand to the libertarian movement...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “Gold vs. Fluctuating Fiat Exchange Rates” This is a single-author monetary-economics essay, written in the aftermath of Bretton Woods and the failed Smithsonian Agreement...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Society Without A State” — Summary Rothbard’s “Society Without A State,” delivered in 1974 and printed in The Libertarian Forum in 1975, is a focused defense of anarcho-capitalist legal order...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Austrian Theory of Money” (1976) Rothbard’s chapter is a synthetic and polemical reconstruction of Mises’s monetary theory as the specifically Austrian alternative to price-level aggregation, mon...