1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Political Thought of Étienne de La Boétie” Rothbard’s essay rescues La Boétie from Montaigne’s shadow and from the narrower history of Huguenot resistance theory...
Murray N. Rothbard, Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics (1956) Rothbard’s essay attempts to rebuild utility and welfare economics by stripping them of measurable utility, hypothetical preference sche...
Ludwig von Mises, Epistemological Problems of Economics Ludwig von Mises’s Epistemological Problems of Economics is a single-author methodological essay volume, the English version of the 1933 Grundprobleme der Nationalö...
Mises, “The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics” — Summary Mises’s essay is both a history of the Austrian School and a defense of economics as a universal science of human action...
Summary of The Underground Economy Hans F. Sennholz’s 1984 pamphlet argues that hidden production is not a marginal curiosity but the predictable counterpart of the tax-and-regulatory state...
Hans F. Sennholz, “A New Kind of War” (2001) This is a short single-author political essay, written immediately after September 11 and later paginated in Foreign Maladies...
Hans F. Sennholz, “A Precarious Dollar” This file is a short single-author monetary-economics essay, dated April 1999. Its scope is narrow but ambitious: Sennholz reads the late-1990s weakness of the dollar as a symptom...
Summary: Hans F. Sennholz, “A Pyramid of Debt” Hans F. Sennholz’s “A Pyramid of Debt” is a short single-author political-economic essay, dated April 2002, on federal borrowing, fiat money, external debt, housing, and mil...
This file is a single-author political-economic travel essay. Hans F. Sennholz uses a brief 2002 visit to Russia as the occasion for an Austrian-economics diagnosis of post-Soviet transition: why the move from command so...
Hans F. Sennholz, “At War with Iraq” (2003) Sennholz’s May 2003 essay reads the Iraq War through history, political economy, and a libertarian theory of postwar reconstruction...
Hans F. Sennholz’s “Blaming the Fed” is a post-dot-com monetary polemic that reads the market collapse as the exposure of Alan Greenspan’s celebrated reputation and of the Federal Reserve’s deeper institutional failure...
Summary: Hans F. Sennholz, “CEO Remuneration” (2003) This file is a brief single-author economic essay. Its scope is narrow but polemical: Sennholz enters the early-2000s controversy over executive pay by separating mark...