1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Ludwig von Mises, “Deception of Government Intervention” — Summary This file is a single short political-economic essay. Its scope is theoretical and polemical: Mises defines the proper function of government, warns agai...
Economic Freedom in the Present-Day World — Summary This file is a short single-author polemical essay by Ludwig von Mises, originally a response to a 1957 questionnaire...
This file is a single-author conference paper, presented in 1945 and later printed in Economics and Ideas. Its genre is a programmatic liberal essay: Mises offers not a technical model but a compact philosophical defense...
Foreign Spokesmen for Freedom — Summary Foreign Spokesmen for Freedom is a short reprinted review-essay from The Freeman rather than a chaptered monograph...
This file is a short foreword by Ludwig von Mises to Percy L. Greaves, Jr.’s Understanding the Dollar Crisis, a volume based on seven lectures delivered in Buenos Aires in 1969...
Freedom Has Made a Comeback — Summary This file is a short occasional political statement: Mises’s 1962 address to a Young Americans for Freedom rally, followed by a brief collection-style transition into “Economics and...
Murray N. Rothbard, “From the Bench—Down With the De-e-e-fense” (1990) This file is a short single-author polemical sports column...
This file is a short single-author policy essay. Its scope is the connection Mises draws among labor unions, institutional unemployment, Keynesian “full employment” policy, and inflation...
Ludwig von Mises, “Gold versus Paper” (1953) This short essay defends the gold standard against the mid-century conviction that managed paper money, deficit spending, and Keynesian full-employment policy had made metalli...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Government Medical ‘Insurance’” (1990) Rothbard’s chapter presents American medical insurance as a compact demonstration of Austrian intervention theory...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “Government-Business ‘Partnerships’” This file is a single polemical economic-history chapter...
Summary: Ludwig von Mises, “How Can Europe Survive?” This brief 1955 review essay by Ludwig von Mises assesses Hans F. Sennholz’s How Can Europe Survive? as a decisive case study against postwar interventionist economics...