The archive.

Prosperity and Depression — Summary Gottfried Haberler’s Prosperity and Depression is a critical synthesis of business-cycle theory written for the League of Nations, not a defense of a single school...

Summary This file is a translated, single-author critical essay, followed by a retrospective postscript. Haberler’s target is Schumpeter’s monetary essay on the “Social Product and the Counting Chips,” especially the equ...

Gottfried Haberler, Der Sinn der Indexzahlen (1927) Haberler’s study is an attempt to rescue index numbers from both uncritical statistical realism and total skepticism...

Gottfried Haberler, “The Theory of Comparative Costs and Its Use in the Defense of Free Trade” (1930) Haberler’s article is a compact reconstruction of the classical free-trade argument...

Gottfried Haberler, “Money and the Business Cycle” (1932) Haberler’s lecture-essay uses the Depression as its immediate background, but it is not mainly a chronicle of collapse...

Gottfried Haberler, The Theory of International Trade (1936) Haberler’s 1936 English translation of his 1933 German treatise is a systematic monograph on international trade theory and commercial policy...

Gottfried Haberler, Consumer Instalment Credit and Economic Fluctuations (1942) This is an economic research monograph on consumer instalment credit and business-cycle theory, supplemented by a technical appendix by Samu...

Summary Haberler’s 1949 article is a theoretical reconstruction of the foreign-exchange market, aimed at clarifying when depreciation corrects a balance-of-payments deficit and when it may perversely aggravate it...

Report of the Committee on International Co-Operation: The I.E.A. Gottfried Haberler’s report is a procedural but revealing document about the postwar organization of economics as an international profession...

Gottfried Haberler, “The Pigou Effect Once More” (1952) Gottfried Haberler’s “The Pigou Effect Once More” is a short single-author theoretical note, not a policy tract...

Gottfried Haberler, “Bemerkungen zum gegenwärtigen Stand der Konjunkturtheorie” (1953) Haberler’s essay surveys business-cycle theory at a moment of methodological expansion, but its purpose is not encyclopedic...

Gottfried Haberler, A Survey of International Trade Theory (1961; orig. 1954) Gottfried Haberler’s revised survey compresses the development of international trade theory into a single analytical narrative, from Hume and...