1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Henry Hazlitt, The Ballooning Welfare State — Summary This single-author essay, first published in The Freeman in April 1972, is a compact polemic on the institutional logic of welfare states...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Bringing Down of Liz Holtzman” (1993) This file is a single-author polemical political essay. Rothbard’s scope is narrow—the 1993 New York City comptroller Democratic primary and runoff—but he us...
Summary: Gottfried Haberler, “The case against the Link” This file is a short economics chapter, first published as a 1971 journal article, on proposals to connect IMF reserve creation—especially special drawing rights,...
Henry Hazlitt, “The Case for the Minimal State” — Summary Hazlitt’s essay is a review of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia and, more broadly, a reflection on the old problem of political power: how to justify th...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Clintonians: ‘Looking Like America’” (1993) This February 1993 polemic treats the Clinton transition as a test case in the politics of “looking like America.” Rothbard’s immediate object is cabin...
This is a short, single-author article of popular political economy, first published in The Freeman in June 1972. Hazlitt uses the essay’s narrow compass to make a broad classical-liberal argument: poverty policy must be...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The December Surprise” (1993) This file is a single polemical political essay. Written in February 1993, it surveys George H. W...
The Distribution of Income Henry Hazlitt’s “The Distribution of Income” is a single-author economic polemic, first published as a Freeman article...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Health Plan’s Devilish Principles” This file is a single polemical chapter: a short libertarian attack on the Clinton health plan, organized around eight “general principles” Rothbard sees as mor...
Gottfried Haberler, “The International Monetary System after Jamaica and Manila” — Summary Haberler’s chapter interprets the 1976 Jamaica and Manila meetings as the formal ratification of a monetary order that had alread...
Gottfried Haberler, “The International Monetary System and Proposals for International Policy Coordination” (1993; orig. 1987) This is a single-author policy-economics chapter on the post-Bretton Woods monetary order, wr...
This file is a short polemical chapter/essay by Murray N. Rothbard, chapter 38 of Making Economic Sense, written around Cesar Chavez’s death and posthumous celebration in 1993...