1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Murray N. Rothbard’s “Clintonomics: The Prospect” is a short single-author chapter/political-economic essay from Making Economic Sense...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Coping With the Inaugural” (1993) This file is a single short political column/polemic. Written after Bill Clinton’s inauguration, it treats the ceremony less as constitutional ritual than as cultura...
Gottfried Haberler, “Currency Convertibility” (orig. 1954) Haberler’s 1954 essay treats postwar convertibility as the central test of whether the non-communist economies would return to multilateral liberal trade or rema...
This chapter, originally connected with 1955 U.S. foreign economic policy debates and later collected in The Liberal Economic Order, examines whether regional trading arrangements can solve trade and payments problems...
Henry Hazlitt, “Defining Poverty” — Summary “Defining Poverty” is a short polemical policy essay, originally published in The Freeman in 1971, focused not on poverty programs in detail but on the prior conceptual questio...
Murray N. Rothbard’s “Ethnic Fury in the Caucasus: Sorting It Out” is a brief 1993 commentary on the post-Soviet Caucasus, written in his anti-interventionist and anti-establishment idiom...
False Remedies for Poverty — Summary Henry Hazlitt’s False Remedies for Poverty is a compact polemic in political economy, first published in The Freeman in 1971...
Foreign Investment vs. Foreign Aid — Summary Henry Hazlitt’s Foreign Investment vs. Foreign Aid is a classical-liberal policy pamphlet arguing that economic development arises from saving, trade, secure property, and vol...
This file is a single-author political-economic essay: Henry Hazlitt rereads Herbert Spencer’s The Man Versus the State from the vantage point of 1969...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “Hands Off the Serbs!” (1993) This file is a single polemical political essay. Written during the Bosnian War, it argues against U.S...
How Should Prices Be Determined? — Summary Henry Hazlitt’s “How Should Prices Be Determined?” is a concise policy essay, first published in The Freeman in February 1967, on the economic and legal problem of price formati...
Gottfried Haberler, “Import Border Taxes and Export-Tax Refunds versus Exchange-Rate Changes” This file is a single-authored scholarly economics chapter, with an appended conference-prompted essay...