1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Summary of George Reisman’s “The Toxicity of Environmentalism” This file is a single-author polemical essay/pamphlet, originally tied to Reisman’s broader defense of capitalism...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Trade Cycle” — Summary This file is a short single-author economic essay, reprinted from The Freeman in 1951...
Summary: The Why of Human Action The Why of Human Action is a short single-author polemical and retrospective essay, reprinted from Plain Talk in 1949...
Murray N. Rothbard’s “The Women/Ladies/Girls/Spoiled Brats of Mills” is a short polemical commentary. Its scope is the 1990 Mills College controversy, when the women-only Oakland institution announced it would admit men...
Summary: Ludwig von Mises, “Unemployment and the Height of Wage Rates” This file is a short polemical economics essay by Ludwig von Mises, reprinted from Christian Economics in 1961...
Ludwig von Mises, “Wage Earners and Employers” — Summary This file is a short radio-broadcast essay. Its scope is narrow and polemical: Mises answers whether American wage earners and employers have opposed interests...
Ludwig von Mises’s “Wage Interference by Government” is a short, single-author economic polemic, reprinted from Christian Economics...
This file is a short polemical policy essay. Its scope is a single controversy: the use of the Jones Act against Vietnamese-American fishermen in California...
Why Read Adam Smith Today? — Summary This file is a short single-author introductory essay by Ludwig von Mises, written for a 1953 selection from The Wealth of Nations...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Why the Intervention in Arabia?” (1990) This essay from Making Economic Sense is a compact antiwar polemic written during Operation Desert Shield...
This file is a single short polemical essay by Murray N. Rothbard, dated February 1991. Its scope is narrow but combative: Rothbard responds to contemporary campus debates over “date rape,” especially a New York Times re...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Tolerance,” or Manners? (1991) This file is a short single-author polemical essay. Its scope is narrow but pointed: Rothbard intervenes in an intra-libertarian quarrel over “tolerance,” political cor...