1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Murray N. Rothbard, “Margit von Mises: 1890–1993” This file is a short memorial essay or obituary. Rothbard’s scope is deliberately intimate: he does not attempt a full biography of Margit von Mises, but commemorates her...
This file is a short polemical economic essay by Murray N. Rothbard. Its scope is narrow—the British controversy over Margaret Thatcher’s local “community charge,” or poll tax—but Rothbard uses that episode to make a bro...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “Oil Prices Again” This file is a single-author polemical economics essay. Its scope is narrow and topical: Rothbard interprets the gasoline price increases following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwai...
This file is a single-authored theoretical chapter in Austrian economics: Kirzner’s essay on Hayek, prices, dispersed knowledge, and market discovery...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Protectionism, Old and New” (1995) Hans F. Sennholz’s “Protectionism, Old and New” is a short single-author political-economy essay...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Roots of the Insurance Crisis” — Summary This short polemical essay is a single-author chapter from Making Economic Sense...
Summary: Ten Great Economic Myths This file is a single-author polemical essay from Murray N. Rothbard’s Making Economic Sense...
This file is a short, single-authored polemical economic essay by Murray N. Rothbard. Its narrow scope is the early-1990s revival of proposals for a federal gasoline-tax increase, but Rothbard uses that proposal to stage...
This file is a short single-author polemical essay/chapter by Murray N. Rothbard on fixed exchange rates under fiat money...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Flag Flap” (1995) This short polemical chapter treats the 1990s controversy over flag burning as a compact test case for Rothbard’s libertarian theory of rights...
This file is a January 1995 political polemic by Murray N. Rothbard on the 1994 midterm elections, the Republican takeover of Congress, and what he presents as the immediate betrayal of a grassroots anti-government revol...
Rothbard’s essay is a brief polemical interpretation of the 1994 United States midterm elections as a domestic anti-statist revolt...