1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
This file is a single-author political polemic/commentary by Murray N. Rothbard, dated December 1990. Its scope is the public campaign against Pat Buchanan after Buchanan criticized war with Iraq and the influence of Isr...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “Peru and the Free Market” (1990) This file is a short political-economic commentary: Rothbard uses the 1990 Peruvian presidential contest to distinguish a genuine free-market politics from e...
Professor Hutt on Keynesianism — Summary This short review essay, reprinted from The Freeman in January 1964, presents Ludwig von Mises’s assessment of W. H. Hutt’s Keynesianism—Retrospect and Prospect...
Summary Mises’s essay is a compact anti-interventionist argument about capitalism, business size, and political hostility to the market...
Ludwig von Mises, “Socialism, Inflation, and the Thrifty Householder” — Summary This brief 1960 political-economic essay argues that the gravest threat to American liberty lies in domestic economic policy: especially the...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Sports, Politics, and the Constitution” (1990) This brief polemical essay is a single-author libertarian commentary...
Summary: Ludwig von Mises, “The Agony of the Welfare State” This file is a single-author political-economic essay, originally reprinted from The Freeman in 1953...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Budget Crisis” — Summary This short polemical essay treats the 1990 U.S. budget shutdown not as a national emergency but as a revealing episode in the ideology of modern government...
The Economic Foundations of Freedom — Summary This file is a short, single-author political-economic essay by Ludwig von Mises, reprinted from The Freeman in 1960...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Economic Role of Saving and Capital Goods” This short economic essay is a compact Austrian argument about capital accumulation, wages, and intervention...
This file is a single political-economic essay, reprinted from The Freeman (1962). Its five sections move from inequality, to property, to “economic power,” to employer authority, and finally to the duty of the elite...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Market and the State” This file is a short political-economic essay. Mises’s scope is theoretical and polemical: he contrasts market cooperation with state coercion, argues that limited coercive go...