1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
This file is a compact, single-author polemical essay in political economy and intellectual history. Mises’s central thesis is that Marxian class theory illicitly transfers the real conflicts of a status society into a c...
The Marxian Theory of Wage Rates — Summary Ludwig von Mises’s essay is a concentrated attack on Marxism at what he regards as its economic foundation: the doctrine that capitalist wages are forced down to bare subsistenc...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Nationalities Question” — Summary This file is a single-author political essay from August 1990, written amid the collapse of Communist authority in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union...
Summary: The Objectives of Economic Education Ludwig von Mises’s “The Objectives of Economic Education” is a short 1948 memorandum to Leonard E. Read, published as an extract rather than a treatise or collection...
This file is a short economic essay by Ludwig von Mises, reprinted from a 1966 periodical issue. Its scope is polemical and diagnostic: Mises moves from nineteenth-century foreign investment to twentieth-century national...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Plight of Business Forecasting” — Summary This file is a short reprinted magazine essay, followed by a brief editorial transition introducing “Mises as Critic.” Its main body is not a forecasting m...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Post-Cold War World” (1990) This file is a single-author polemical foreign-policy essay, dated April 1990 and organized in three sections: “Whither U.S...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Saver as a Voter” This short translated essay is a compact political-economic intervention on savings, inflation, and democratic responsibility...
This short 1955 review essay by Ludwig von Mises, reprinted from The Freeman, uses William E. Rappard’s book The Secret of American Prosperity as the occasion for a broader Cold War argument about capitalism, development...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Social Security Swindle” (1990) This file is a short single-author polemical economic essay. Rothbard’s scope is the U.S...
The Soviet System's Economic Failure — Summary This file is a short polemical newspaper essay. Mises’s scope is narrow but strategic: he reframes the Cold War dispute over socialism and capitalism as a test of economic p...
The Symptomatic Keynes — Summary Mises’s essay is a polemical review of R. F. Harrod’s biography of John Maynard Keynes, but its real subject is the historical meaning of Keynes’s fame...