1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Murray N. Rothbard’s “Price Controls Are Back!” is a short polemical chapter of economic commentary. Its scope is the recurrence of state price-fixing from ancient and revolutionary precedents to the Clinton administrati...
Henry Hazlitt, “Private Property, Public Purpose” — Summary This is a single-author classical-liberal economic essay, originally published in The Freeman...
This 1943 League of Nations chapter by Gottfried Haberler defines, historicizes, and criticizes quantitative trade controls as a distinctive form of commercial policy...
Gottfried Haberler, “Real Cost, Money Cost and Comparative Advantage” / “Concluding Remarks” This file is a proceedings contribution rather than a monograph: Haberler’s theoretical note is followed by ex-post concluding...
Henry Hazlitt, “Rights” — Summary This file is a single argumentative essay in legal and political philosophy, originally published in The Freeman in 1964...
Should We Divide the Wealth? — Summary Henry Hazlitt’s Should We Divide the Wealth? is a single-author economic polemic, first published in The Freeman in February 1972...
Gottfried Haberler’s “Some Problems in the Pure Theory of International Trade” is a single theoretical article in static international-trade theory and welfare economics...
Henry Hazlitt, “Herbert Spencer” — Summary This article-length chapter surveys Herbert Spencer’s political theory within Hazlitt’s broader account of nineteenth-century theories of government...
Henry Hazlitt, “The Sphere of Government: Nineteenth-Century Theories” — Summary Hazlitt’s essay continues his inquiry into the proper limits of state power by turning from modern minimal-state theory to nineteenth-centu...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “Stop Nafta!” (1993) This file is a short single-author political-economic polemic. Written in October 1993, it intervenes in the U.S...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The ‘Watershed’ Election” (1993) This file is a single polemical political essay: a January 1993 post-election diagnosis of Clinton’s victory, the collapse of official conservatism, and the strategic...
Summary Henry Hazlitt’s The ABC of a Market Economy is a short didactic essay from The Freeman (February 1985), written as a primer on the institutional logic of markets, socialism, and intervention...