1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Fritz Machlup, Remaking the International Monetary System (1968) Machlup interprets the Rio Agreement on Special Drawing Rights as a monetary reform achieved through deliberate semantic looseness...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Tax and Tax” (1968) Hans F. Sennholz’s “Tax and Tax” responds to Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler’s September 1968 tax-reform proposals...
Hans F. Sennholz, “The Economy: Does Anyone Really Want Reform?” (1968) Sennholz’s essay asks whether economic reform, especially saving the dollar from inflation, can be produced by electoral hope alone...
Lord Robbins, The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought Robbins’s Chichele Lectures recover development economics as a continuous tradition of inquiry into real income per head...
Summary: Ilse Mintz, Dating Postwar Business Cycles Ilse Mintz’s study argues that postwar West Germany did not escape business cycles...
Murray N. Rothbard, Economic Depressions: Causes & Cures Rothbard’s pamphlet presents an Austrian critique of Keynesian business-cycle management...
Fritz Machlup’s “Liberalism and the Choice of Freedoms” is a single-author lecture-essay in political economy and political theory...
Methodological Individualism and the Market Economy — Summary Ludwig M. Lachmann’s “Methodological Individualism and the Market Economy” is a single theoretical essay in four sections...
“Money Crisis” — Summary Hans F. Sennholz’s 1969 “Money Crisis” treats the pressure on the pound and franc not as a temporary disturbance but as evidence that the postwar gold-exchange system is nearing failure...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Meaning of Revolution” (1969) This file is a short polemical-theoretical essay. Rothbard’s scope is conceptual and strategic: he clarifies what “revolution” should mean for libertarians, arguing...
Summary — Murray N. Rothbard, “Anarcho-Communism” (1970) This short polemical essay is a New Left-era intervention in which Rothbard distinguishes libertarian anti-statism from anarcho-communism...
William E. Rappard, “Small States in the League of Nations” Rappard’s chapter examines the League of Nations as an institution founded on sovereign equality yet structured by Great-Power privilege...