1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
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...
Friedrich August von Hayek, “Die Erhaltung des liberalen Gedankengutes” (1975) This text is a Zurich lecture from winter 1973/74, published in 1975...
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...
Summary This file is a brief commemorative reminiscence by Fritz Machlup. Its scope is personal, institutional, and intellectual: Machlup presents Ludwig von Mises as teacher, seminar leader, political seer, theorist of...
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...
This file is a brief commemorative address by F. A. Hayek on Ludwig von Mises. Its scope is intellectual-biographical: Hayek explains Mises’s place in the revival of liberalism by tracing his development from theoretical...
Henry Hazlitt, “The Search for an Ideal Money” (1975) This is a short single-author monetary essay, reprinted from The Freeman...
Henry Hazlitt, “To Restore World Monetary Order” — Summary Hazlitt’s essay is a polemical diagnosis of the post-Bretton Woods monetary breakdown...
Hans F. Sennholz, Death and Taxes Hans F. Sennholz’s Death and Taxes, introduced by John W. Robbins, treats federal estate and gift taxation as a central symptom of the modern fiscal state...
Friedrich A. Hayek, Geldtheorie und Konjunkturtheorie (1929/1976) This file is a scholarly monograph in monetary and cycle theory: Hayek’s 1929 text, reissued in 1976 with a retrospective preface and Kurt Leube’s bibliog...
Fritz Machlup, “If Matter Could Talk” (1976) Machlup’s essay is a methodological reflection on what truly distinguishes the social sciences from the natural sciences...