1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Murray N. Rothbard, “The War on the Car” (1994) — Summary This file is a short single-author political polemic, appearing as a chapter-like essay in the “Enterprise Under Attack” section of Making Economic Sense...
Summary of Murray N. Rothbard, “The Whiskey Rebellion: A Model for Our Time?” This file is a short historical-political essay on the bicentenary of the Whiskey Rebellion, framed as a revisionist intervention into America...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Vouchers: What Went Wrong?” (1994) This file is a short polemical policy essay. Rothbard uses the defeat of California’s Proposition 174 to attack school vouchers from within a libertarian, anti-stat...
Hans F. Sennholz’s “Wasting the Later Years of Life” is a brief 1994 essay in moral economy. Its scope is deliberately broad despite its short form: retirement, capital consumption, aging, labor, welfare policy, and civi...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Welfare as We Don’t Know It” This file is a short, single-author polemical chapter from Making Economic Sense...
This March 1994 political commentary essay presents Murray N. Rothbard’s polemical explanation of Bobby Ray Inman’s rapid collapse as Bill Clinton’s nominee for secretary of defense...
Summary This file is a short 1995 political-economy essay by Hans F. Sennholz. Its scope is narrow but polemically ambitious: it uses the imminent crossing of the $5 trillion federal debt threshold to argue that national...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Anatomy of the Bank Run” — Summary This file is a short polemical economic essay: a compact Rothbardian intervention on bank runs, deposit insurance, fractional-reserve banking, and inflation...
Summary of “By Their Fruits . . .” This file is a short polemical essay in political economy by Murray N. Rothbard. Its scope is narrow but exemplary: it uses federal regulation of California peaches and nectarines to in...
This file is a single polemical economic essay by Murray N. Rothbard. Its scope is tightly focused on the early Clinton administration’s budget program, especially the February 17 budget message and the prospect of healt...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Creative Economic Semantics” — Summary Genre and scope: this is a short polemical essay in public-finance rhetoric...
Emil Lederer, Der Massenstaat — Summary Emil Lederer’s Der Massenstaat is a political-sociological diagnosis of fascism as the state form of massified modern society...