1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Fritz Machlup’s The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States is a single-author economic monograph and national accounting study...
Fritz Machlup, “On the Cultivation of Economic Semantics” Fritz Machlup’s text is a short methodological introduction on economic language, organized as a historical defense of semantic clarification in economics...
Fritz Machlup, Plans for Reform of the International Monetary System (1964) This is a single-author special paper: a pedagogical, technical survey of reform proposals for the Bretton Woods international monetary system...
Fritz Machlup, “Professor Samuelson on Theory and Realism” (1964) Machlup’s communication is a compact methodological rebuttal to Paul Samuelson’s criticism of unrealistic abstract models...
Stocking and Machlup, The Economics of Sellers’ Competition: Model Analysis — Summary Stocking and Machlup recast competition theory as model analysis of sellers’ conduct...
Fritz Machlup, Die Hochschulausbildung im volkswirtschaftlichen Kalkül (1965) Machlup’s Kiel lecture makes a deliberately provocative claim: higher education may be treated within economic calculation without degrading i...
Fritz Machlup’s International Trade and the National Income Multiplier reformulates Keynesian multiplier theory for an open economy...
Fritz Machlup, Involuntary Foreign Lending (1965) Machlup’s Wicksell Lectures address the 1965 crisis of the dollar-exchange standard and the European, especially French, charge that the United States financed itself abr...
Fritz Machlup, “Real Adjustment, Compensatory Corrections, and Foreign Financing of Imbalances in International Payments” (1965) Machlup’s essay is a conceptual reconstruction of balance-of-payments analysis...
Machlup’s essay clarifies whether the IMF should remain a custodial warehouse of national currencies or become an institution able to create internationally acceptable reserve liabilities...
Fritz Machlup, “The Need for Monetary Reserves” (1966) Machlup’s article is a conceptual and empirical critique of the language of “reserve needs” in the Bretton Woods system...
Fritz Machlup, “Corporate Management, National Interest, and Behavioral Theory” (1967) This file is a single-authored satirical economic essay...