1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Hayek’s essay asks how the institutional virtues of the gold standard might be preserved without making gold itself the monetary anchor...
Socialist Calculation I: The Nature and History of the Problem — Summary Hayek’s chapter frames the socialist calculation debate as a belated transition from moral and rhetorical controversy to analysis of institutional...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Socialist Calculation II: The State of the Debate (1935)” Hayek’s essay surveys the socialist-calculation controversy as it stood after Mises, Brutzkus, Barone, Taylor, Roper, Dickinson, and others h...
Socialist Calculation III: The Competitive “Solution” — Summary Hayek’s essay is a review-critique of the market-socialist proposals associated chiefly with Lange, Taylor, and Dickinson...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Economic Conditions of Interstate Federalism” Hayek’s essay argues that interstate federation is not merely a device for preventing war among formerly sovereign states...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Facts of the Social Sciences” (1948) Hayek’s essay is a methodological argument about the sciences of language, markets, law, and institutions, not about every inquiry into social phenomena...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Meaning of Competition” (1948) This file is a single-author economic-theory essay, originally the substance of a lecture...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Ricardo Effect” — Summary Hayek’s essay reconstructs a proposition associated with Ricardo: wages and machinery are not neutral substitutes, and changes in wages relative to product prices alter...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society” — Summary Hayek’s essay recasts economic coordination as a problem of knowledge rather than merely of calculation...
Friedrich August von Hayek’s “The Webbs and Their Work” is a 1948 review essay on Beatrice Webb’s memoir Our Partnership, treating it as a major document for understanding the formation of modern British collectivism...
Friedrich A. Hayek, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Hayek’s 1951 book is a documentary edition of a relationship: an arranged body of correspondence, editorial commentary, and collateral testimony concerning John Stu...
Friedrich A. Hayek, The Counter-Revolution of Science (1952) — Summary Hayek’s 1952 book is a single-author scholarly work, part methodological treatise and part intellectual history...