1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Ludwig von Mises’s Die Legende vom Versagen des Kapitalismus responds to the Depression-era claim that crisis proves capitalism’s exhaustion...
This file is a single translated theoretical essay in monetary economics/catallactics, originally published as a contribution to an edited volume...
This file is a brief, single-author theoretical-policy essay: Mises’s 1933 Festschrift contribution, here in English translation, on the state and near future of business-cycle research...
Soziologie und Geschichte — Summary Mises’s essay defends sociology as a general theory of human action against historicism’s claim that action can be known only historically...
Ludwig von Mises’s “The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle” is a short, single-author theoretical essay. Its scope is deliberately compressed: Mises gives a genealogy and policy statement of the monetary theory of crises...
Ludwig von Mises, “Wirtschaftsordnung und politische Verfassung” Mises’ 1936 essay is both a theoretical argument and a review of William E. Rappard’s study of Swiss constitutional history...
Ludwig von Mises, “Planning for Freedom” (1945) This single-author public address is a polemical work of political economy, delivered in 1945 amid debates over postwar reconstruction, Keynesian policy, the New Deal, Beve...
Ludwig von Mises, “The Clash of Group Interests” (1945) Ludwig von Mises’s “The Clash of Group Interests” is a single 1945 conference/symposium essay...
This file is a short 1946 economic memorandum/essay by Ludwig von Mises. Its scope is a compressed statement of Austrian trade-cycle theory: cheap-money policy, by forcing interest below its market level through bank cre...
Cooperatives in the Petroleum Industry — Summary This file treats the cooperative petroleum movement as an economic development and as an ideological contest...
This essay is a compact diagnosis of whether interventionism can function as a stable third way between capitalism and socialism...
Ludwig von Mises, “Class Conflict and Revolutionary Socialism” (1952) This file is a single-author polemical lecture or essay in economic theory and intellectual history...