1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis Joseph A. Schumpeter’s unfinished History of Economic Analysis, edited by Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter, presents economics as the history of an analytic craft rather than a sequence...
Nationalism, Socialism, and Violent Revolution — Summary This file is a single-author, lecture-like essay in intellectual history and liberal political theory...
Profit and Loss, Private Property, and the Achievements of Capitalism — Summary This file is a single theoretical essay or lecture by Ludwig von Mises...
Mises presents modern civilization as the result of saving made intelligible by economic calculation. His “Crusoe economics” is not an attempt to model society as isolation, but to isolate the elementary fact that longer...
Oskar Morgenstern, Die Grenzen der Wirtschaftspolitik (1934) Morgenstern’s essay is a methodological defense of economics against both political overclaiming and anti-theoretical “practical” disdain...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Nazi-Socialism” (1933) This file is a brief political-economic essay from spring 1933, written as a contemporaneous diagnosis of Hitler’s rise...
The Betrayal of the American Right — Summary Rothbard’s book combines intellectual history, political argument, and memoir...
Murray N. Rothbard, The Case Against the Fed (1994) Rothbard’s book advances a stark thesis: the Federal Reserve is not the public’s shield against inflation but the institution that makes continuing inflation, bank cart...
Murray N. Rothbard, The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies Rothbard’s book is a historical monograph on the first nationwide American depression, concerned less with narrating suffering than with reconstructing the po...
Profit & Loss — Ludwig von Mises Ludwig von Mises’s Profit and Loss is a compact defense of entrepreneurial profit as the central coordinating device of capitalism...
Murray N. Rothbard, The Mystery of Banking — Summary The Mystery of Banking is a single-author Austrian monetary-economics treatise. Its scope runs from the elementary logic of money to the institutional history of U.S...
Hayek, Choice in Currency: A Way to Stop Inflation — Summary Hayek’s 1976 pamphlet argues that persistent inflation is not a technical error in policy management but the expected result of giving governments monopoly pow...