1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Murray N. Rothbard, “National Liberation” (orig. 1974) This short polemical essay uses the Northern Ireland crisis to restate a libertarian case for national self-determination...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Rationality, Entrepreneurship, and Economic ‘Imperialism’” — Summary Kirzner’s chapter is a methodological argument about the scope of economics rather than a contribution to applied price theory...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Record Trade Deficits” (2000) — Summary Genre and scope: this is a short single-author economic essay, dated November 2000...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Reflections on the Misesian Legacy in Economics” — Summary This file is a single-authored chapter/essay, first published as a memorial paper for Murray N. Rothbard...
Israel M. Kirzner, “The Driving Force of the Market” (1997) — Summary Kirzner’s chapter contrasts the static idea of competition in contemporary price theory with the Austrian conception of competition as a dynamic marke...
Israel M. Kirzner, “The Ethics of Competition” (1994) Kirzner’s chapter revisits Frank Knight’s classic ethical critique of capitalism in order to challenge its economic foundation...
Israel M. Kirzner, “The Limits of the Market: The Real and the Imagined” — Summary This file is a single-authored theoretical chapter in Austrian economics, organized into four sections with notes and references...
Kirzner’s chapter is a conceptual defense of pure entrepreneurial profit. It does not offer a new ethical theory; it first clarifies what economics means by profit, then asks what moral question remains once ordinary fac...
Israel M. Kirzner, “The Subjectivism of Austrian Economics” Kirzner’s essay is a doctrinal reconstruction of Austrian subjectivism...
Murray N. Rothbard, “War, Peace, and the State” This file is a single argumentative essay/chapter in libertarian political theory...
Israel M. Kirzner, Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics Kirzner’s book presents Mises chiefly as an economist, not as an object of biographical reverence...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar Rothbard’s essay, first published in 1962 and later framed by a retrospective preface, is not a plea for restoring the imperfect pre-1933 system...