1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero Rothbard’s essay is an admiring intellectual biography that treats Ludwig von Mises as the central system-builder of modern Austrian economics and as a model of principl...
Murray N. Rothbard, Nine Myths About the Crash (1988) This file is a short single-author polemical economics essay, structured as a rapid rebuttal of nine public explanations of the October 19, 1987 stock-market crash...
This file is a single polemical economics chapter or short essay. Rothbard uses the 1988 debate over raising the federal minimum wage as an occasion to restate a libertarian and Austrian-style critique: minimum wage law...
Summary: “Privatization: Best Hope for a Vanishing Wilderness” This file is a short policy essay and advocacy survey. Reprinted from The Freeman, Lawrence W...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Collapse of Socialism” (1988) This file is a short polemical essay or chapter. Its scope is global and historical: Rothbard interprets the reform movements of the late 1980s—glasnost, perestroika...
Murray N. Rothbard’s “The Interest Rate Question” is a compact polemical essay rather than a systematic treatise. Its occasion is the rapid turn in opinion after Black Monday, when commentators shifted from assuming perm...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The National Bureau and Business Cycles” (1988) This is a short single-author economic polemic: Rothbard’s target is the National Bureau of Economic Research’s authority over the dating and interpret...
Summary: “The Return of the Tax Credit” “The Return of the Tax Credit” is a brief single-author political-economic polemic...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Are Savings Too Low?” — Summary This file is a short single-author economic essay, chapter 9 of Making Economic Sense...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Business Cycles, Volume I — Summary Volume I is a single-author theoretical, historical, and statistical treatise on capitalism as an evolutionary system...
Israel M. Kirzner, Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice (1989) This file is a full-length single-author monograph in seven chapters...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Government and Hurricane Hugo: A Deadly Combination” (1989) This file is a short single-author polemical essay...