General Treatises on Economics

Bastiat criticizes the socialists of wanting to be the “Great Mechanic” who would run the “social machine” in which ordinary people were merely so many lifeless cogs and wheels (1848)

David Ricardo considered taxation to be a “great evil” which hindered the accumulation of productive capital and reduced consumption (1817)

David Ricardo on Taxation

Destutt de Tracy on society as “nothing but a succession of exchanges” (1817)

Jean-Baptiste Say argues that there is a world of difference between private consumption and public consumption; an increase in the latter does nothing to increase public wealth (1803)

Jean-Baptiste Say regards regulations which favor producers as a form of political privilege at the expence of the community (1803)

Ludwig von Mises argues that monopolies are the direct result of government intervention and not the product of any inherent tendency within the capitalist system (1949)

Ludwig von Mises argues that the division of labor and human cooperation are the two sides of the same coin and are not antagonistic to each other (1949)

Ludwig von Mises laments the passing of the Age of Limited Warfare and the coming of Mass Destruction in the Age of Statism and Conquest (1949)

Ludwig von Mises lays out five fundamental truths of monetary expansion (1949)

McCulloch argues that the right to property extends to “the faculties of (one’s) mind and the powers of (one’s) body” (1864)

Mises on how the “boon” of a tariff privilege is soon dissipated (1949)

Mises on how the “boon” of a tariff privilege is soon dissipated (1949)

Mises on the interconnection between economic and political freedom (1949)

Nassau Senior objected to any government regulation of factories which meant that a horde of inspectors would interfere with the organization of production (1837)

Paul Heyne on THE economic way of thinking (1995)

Philip Wicksteed on how impersonal economic relations help others (1910)

Philip Wicksteed on “non-tuism” in economic relations (1910)

Philip Wicksteed’s positive vision of the “cash nexus” (1910)

Wicksteed on the subjective theory of value and on opportunity costs (1910)