1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Summary: Hans F. Sennholz, “Underground Government” “Underground Government” is a short polemical policy essay, originally a Notes piece, on the fiscal evasions of modern government...
“Value Implications of Economic Theory” — Summary Rothbard’s essay is a methodological argument about the limits of economic science in public policy...
Summary of Hans F. Sennholz, “Welfare Reform” (1997) This file is a brief single-author policy essay. Written in the wake of the 1996 federal welfare reform, Sennholz offers a libertarian critique of both the welfare sta...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “What is the Proper Way to Study Man?” This is a short single-author review essay. Rothbard reviews three books—Ludwig von Mises’s Epistemological Problems of Economics, Louise Sommer’s edite...
Summary: “Woeful Bankers” Hans F. Sennholz’s “Woeful Bankers” is a brief single-author polemical economic essay, dated May 1995, on American banking under political money and regulatory command...
Inflation and You is a brief wartime essay in public economics, written for non-specialist Americans rather than for theorists...
Ludwig von Mises, Interventionism: An Economic Analysis (1940/1998) Written in 1940 and published from Mises’s papers in Bettina Bien Greaves’s 1998 edition, Interventionism is an immanent critique of the “third way.” Mi...
Oskar Morgenstern, “Prolegomena to a Theory of Organization” Morgenstern’s unfinished RAND memorandum is a methodological clearing of the ground for a future quantitative theory of organization...
Murray N. Rothbard, Education: Free & Compulsory (1999) Rothbard’s pamphlet argues from a libertarian perspective that compulsory schooling violates parental authority and promotes political uniformity...
Summary Hans F. Sennholz’s “Jubilee 2000” is a short policy-theological essay, written in April 1999, against the campaign for sweeping cancellation of poor-country debt...
Hans F. Sennholz’s essay is a commemorative intellectual memoir that presents Mises as teacher, theorist, and embattled defender of capitalist civilization...
Hans F. Sennholz, “A New Era” (2000) This file is a single-author economic essay: a short, topical intervention on the late-1990s stock-market boom, the Internet economy, Federal Reserve policy, and the likelihood of an...