1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Fritz Machlup, “The Problem of Verification in Economics” (1955) Machlup’s essay clarifies what economists can reasonably mean by “verification.” He rejects both apriorism and a crude empiricism that would require every...
Fritz Machlup, “Disputes, Paradoxes, and Dilemmas Concerning Economic Development” (1957) Machlup’s essay is a conceptual map of development economics at mid-century...
Fritz Machlup’s review presents J. R. Hicks’s A Revision of Demand Theory as both a technical reconstruction and a methodological experiment: Hicks is not writing welfare economics, empirical demand analysis, or policy d...
Fritz Machlup, An Economic Review of the Patent System (1958) Machlup’s Senate study treats the patent system as a practical economic institution rather than a moral given...
Fritz Machlup’s 1958 methodological article examines the terms “equilibrium” and “disequilibrium” across economic theory, with a long application to international trade and the balance of payments...
Fritz Machlup, “Structure and Structural Change: Weaselwords and Jargon” (1958) Machlup’s essay is a methodological critique of the economic vocabulary of “structure,” “structural,” and “structural change.” He does not a...
This file is a single-author theoretical essay, originally contributed to a volume honoring Fredrik Zeuthen. Machlup’s scope is deliberately precise: he defines innovation as the first productive application of a new ide...
Fritz Machlup, “Statics and Dynamics: Kaleidoscopic Words” (1959) This is a single-author methodological essay in economic semantics...
Fritz Machlup, “Another View of Cost-Push and Demand-Pull Inflation” (1960) Machlup’s article intervenes in the cost-push versus demand-pull controversy by arguing that the debate is confused less by evidence than by uns...
Fritz Machlup, Der Wettstreit zwischen Mikro- und Makrotheorie in der Nationalökonomie (1960) Machlup’s lecture dismantles the terms of the micro-macro contest...
This source is best summarized as an edited symposium volume on models, not as a single essay by Fritz Machlup. Its chapters ask how “model” changes meaning as it passes from mathematical logic into physics, economics, a...
Fritz Machlup, “The Supply of Inventors and Inventions” (1960) This single-author conference paper in economic theory and innovation policy asks how far the supply of inventions can be analyzed like the supply of any oth...