1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Personal Recollections of Keynes and the ‘Keynesian Revolution’ — Summary Hayek’s memoir-essay combines personal recollection with methodological critique...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Socialism and Science” (1978) — Summary Hayek’s “Socialism and Science” is a single lecture-essay: its scope is the intellectual defensibility of socialism as a doctrine claiming exemption from scien...
Friedrich A. Hayek, The Atavism of Social Justice — Summary Hayek’s lecture condenses the late argument of Law, Legislation and Liberty into a polemic against a phrase he thinks has gained moral authority by evading anal...
This file is a single-author lecture-essay in political theory, jurisprudence, and social philosophy. Hayek’s scope is diagnostic and remedial: he argues that political thought is confused because ordinary language blurs...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Constitution of a Liberal State” Hayek’s essay, first published in Il Politico in 1967, is a reconstruction of liberal constitutionalism rather than a commentary on any single constitution...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The New Confusion About ‘Planning’” — Summary Genre and scope: the file is a single reprinted essay/chapter by F. A...
Hicks and Weber (eds.), Carl Menger and the Austrian School of Economics J. R. Hicks and Wilhelm Weber’s edited volume uses the centenary of Carl Menger’s Grundsätze to reassess both Menger’s 1871 book and the Austrian t...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Primacy of the Abstract” This essay is a revised philosophical conference talk in which Hayek challenges the empiricist picture of mind as beginning with concrete particulars and later extracting...
Hayek’s “Three Elucidations of the Ricardo Effect” is a compact defense of a specific capital-theoretic mechanism: changes in the demand for consumer goods alter the profitability of more or less capital-intensive method...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Two Types of Mind” (1978) “Two Types of Mind” is a short reflective essay, reprinted with additions from Encounter, in which Hayek turns an autobiographical contrast into an argument about scientific...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Whither Democracy?” — Summary This is a single-author political-theory lecture: its scope is one sustained argument about the constitutional degeneration of modern democracy...
This file is a German translation of Hayek’s 1978 Ludwig-von-Mises memorial lecture “Coping with Ignorance.” It is a single lecture combining intellectual memoir, homage, and methodological argument...