1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.

Carl Menger, Grundsätze der Volkswirthschaftslehre — Summary Carl Menger’s Grundsätze der Volkswirthschaftslehre (1871) is the “first, general part” of a projected reconstruction of economics...

Carl Menger, Untersuchungen über die Methode der Socialwissenschaften und der Politischen Oekonomie insbesondere (1883) Menger’s Untersuchungen is a methodological monograph: its scope is the epistemological status of th...

Böhm-Bawerk, Positive Theorie des Kapitales (1889) Böhm-Bawerk’s constructive sequel to his history of interest theories treats capital, production, value, and interest as one connected problem...

Friedrich von Wieser, Der natürliche Werth (1889) Wieser’s Der natürliche Werth is a single-author theoretical monograph in political economy...

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Zum Abschluß des Marxschen Systems (1896) This single-author scholarly critique assesses Marx’s economic system after the posthumous appearance of the third volume of Das Kapital...

Schumpeter’s Das Wesen und der Hauptinhalt der theoretischen Nationalökonomie is a methodological founding text for “pure” economics...

Ludwig von Mises, Theorie des Geldes und der Umlaufsmittel (1912) Mises’s monograph gives a systematic theory of money, money substitutes, and fiduciary media...

Eugen v. Böhm-Bawerk, “Macht oder ökonomisches Gesetz?” (1914) Böhm-Bawerk’s 1914 essay intervenes between two one-sided doctrines of distribution...

Ludwig von Mises, Die Gemeinwirtschaft (1932) Mises presents Die Gemeinwirtschaft as a theoretical examination of socialism...

Mises’s Liberalism is a systematic defense of classical liberalism as the institutional philosophy of social cooperation. Its thesis is not that liberty is a romantic ideal or that capitalism favors a class, but that pri...

Fritz Machlup, Börsenkredit, Industriekredit und Kapitalbildung (1931) Machlup’s monograph addresses the interwar charge that stock-exchange credit drains resources from industry, raises the cost of industrial borrowing,...

Friedrich A. Hayek, Prices and Production (Second Edition, 1935) Hayek’s second edition collects four London lectures, with second-edition qualifications and appendices, into a program for restoring monetary theory to pr...