3,673 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
A population can become more mobile while its legal categories remain fixed. In this 1891 article on the Austrian census of 31 December 1890, Karl-Theodor von Inama-Sternegg and Heinrich Rauchberg trace the widening gap between where people live and where they hold municipal home rights, arguing that domicile legislation fails to accommodate movement. Writing from within the statistical administration, they also distinguish demographic change from changes produced by boundaries, questionnaires and counting rules. Their early synthesis lets readers examine improving literacy alongside persistent regional and gender inequalities, and see why reported everyday language cannot simply be equated with linguistic identity. The tables offer more than population totals: they expose the practical difficulties of making a mobile, multilingual population legible through administrative categories.
An increase of 7.6 percent in population conceals strikingly different local trajectories in the Austrian lands represented in the Reichsrat. In this preliminary report on the 1890 census, Karl-Theodor von Inama-Sternegg and Heinrich Rauchberg examine those differences while asking what the figures can legitimately establish. Their perspective combines demographic interpretation with close attention to the machinery of enumeration: a residential party is not necessarily a household, and an enlarged city is not simply a growing one. Vienna makes the distinction concrete, as annexation brought rapidly expanding suburbs within its boundaries. Read alongside the district tables, their analysis offers a way to investigate urban concentration, regional decline and estimated migration without mistaking administrative categories or territorial changes for demographic processes.