1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Henry Hazlitt, “The Torrent of Laws” (1979) Hazlitt’s essay is a short political-economic polemic, originally published in The Freeman, on legislative proliferation in the United States...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Their Malcolm...and Mine” (1993) Rothbard’s 1993 essay is a brief, sharp polemic on the revival of Malcolm X as a public icon in the early 1990s...
Gottfried Haberler, “Theoretical Reflections on the Trade of Socialist Economies” Haberler frames the chapter as a deliberately limited exercise in trade theory rather than an empirical study of Soviet-type economies...
This file is a two-part translated intervention: Gottfried Haberler’s 1930 article on the transfer problem, followed by his 1931 rejoinder to Bertil Ohlin...
Henry Hazlitt’s “Uruguay: Welfare State Gone Wild” is a short polemical magazine essay in political economy, first published in The Freeman in 1969...
Summary Henry Hazlitt’s “Welfarism Gone Wild” is a compact libertarian polemic on American welfare from the New Deal to 1971...
Hans F. Sennholz, “What’s Holding Black Americans Back?” — Summary This short 1993 policy essay argues from a classical-liberal economic perspective that black economic advancement is impeded less by market inequality it...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Where Intervene Next?” (1993) Murray N. Rothbard’s “Where Intervene Next?” is a short September 1993 political polemic and foreign-policy commentary...
Henry Hazlitt, “Why Anticapitalism Grows” (1983/1993) — Summary Hazlitt’s essay is a compact polemical reply to a young defender of free enterprise who faces ten recurring objections to capitalism...
Henry Hazlitt’s Why Some Are Poorer is a short economic-policy essay first published in The Freeman in January 1972. Its scope is historical mass poverty, residual poverty in affluent capitalist societies, and the limits...
This file is a short single-author political polemic from November 1993. Rothbard’s target is not merely Nafta itself but the fervor with which prominent free-market institutions and commentators defended it...
Murray N. Rothbard, “A New Strategy for Liberty” (1994) — Summary This file is a single-authored political-strategy essay: an October 1994 polemic in which Rothbard reassesses libertarian and conservative tactics after w...