1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Murray N. Rothbard, “Panic on Wall Street” (1987) “Panic on Wall Street” is a short polemical economic essay. Its immediate scope is the 1980s prosecution of insider trading, but Rothbard uses that episode to make a broa...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Balanced-Budget Amendment Hoax” (1987) This file is a short single-author polemical policy essay, appearing as an entry in Making Economic Sense...
This file is a short argumentative essay by Murray N. Rothbard on the methodological slogan that Austrian economics studies “the consequences of human action, not human design.” Its scope is narrow but polemical: Rothbar...
Hans F. Sennholz, “The Ethics of Entitlement” Sennholz’s essay presents entitlement policy as a modern political innovation and subjects it to a combined moral, economic, and civic critique...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Homeless and the Hungry” (1987) This file is a short single-author polemical chapter from Making Economic Sense...
Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics — Summary Voegelin’s lectures define political science as an inquiry into order, representation, and the symbols by which societies understand their place in reality...
Hans F. Sennholz, The Politics of Unemployment — Summary Hans F. Sennholz’s 1987 work is a compact political-economic essay on unemployment, written from a free-market perspective and aimed at overturning the common view...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Specter of Airline Re-Regulation” (1987) Rothbard’s essay is a compact libertarian intervention in the late-1980s controversy over U.S. airline deregulation...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung — Summary Schumpeter’s Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung explains capitalism not as a static allocation mechanism but as an internally transformative...
Babbitry and Taxes: A Profile in Courage? is a short single-author polemical essay in political economy. Its scope is narrow—the 1988 presidential-season celebration of Bruce Babbitt for supporting tax increases to reduc...
The file is a single polemical essay/chapter on the 1988 U.S. presidential election. Rothbard’s scope is narrow but pointed: compare George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis by policy rather than campaign image...
This file is a short single-author polemical essay by Murray N. Rothbard, written as an Austrian-economics intervention into late twentieth-century enthusiasm for chaos theory...