1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Freedom and the Economic System — Friedrich A. von Hayek Hayek’s 1939 pamphlet, framed by Gideonse as an inquiry into “where the danger to liberty lies,” argues that comprehensive economic planning threatens the freedoms...
F. A. Hayek, “Introduction” to Henry Thornton’s Paper Credit of Great Britain Hayek’s introduction is an act of recovery: it relocates Henry Thornton from the margins of economic memory to the beginning of modern monetar...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Price Expectations, Monetary Disturbances and Malinvestments” The file is a single theoretical lecture-essay...
Profits, Interest and Investment — Summary This file is a single-author theoretical economics essay, divided into an introduction and two parts, in which Hayek revises his trade-cycle theory under more realistic assumpti...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Saving” (1939) Hayek’s encyclopedic article treats “saving” not as a single moral habit or accounting residual, but as a family of distinct economic acts whose confusion has misled theories of capita...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Maintenance of Capital” (1939) Hayek’s essay examines why the apparently simple idea of keeping capital “constant” becomes problematic once economic change is admitted...
Sozialistische Wirtschaftsrechnung III: Wiedereinführung des Wettbewerbs This German volume section belongs to the multi-contributor socialist-calculation debate and is organized as the third chapter in a sequence of arg...
Friedrich August von Hayek, “Der Ricardo-Effekt” (1942) This file is a single-author theoretical chapter/essay in seven sections...
Friedrich August von Hayek, “Warenwährung” (1943) This file is a single chapter-style monetary essay. Its scope is a post-gold-standard design problem: how can an international monetary order keep the automatic, predicta...
Individualism: True and False — Summary F. A. Hayek’s Individualism: True and False is the Twelfth Finlay Lecture, delivered in Dublin in 1945 and published in 1946...
Hayek’s opening address to the April 1947 Mont Pèlerin Conference is a founding statement rather than a finished doctrine...
“Free” Enterprise and Competitive Order — Summary Hayek’s essay, first delivered in the Mont-Pèlerin context and later printed in Individualism and Economic Order, is a programmatic attempt to restate liberalism after th...