1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Oskar Morgenstern, “Vollkommene Voraussicht und wirtschaftliches Gleichgewicht” (1935) Morgenstern’s essay is a compact critique of a premise often left implicit in general-equilibrium theory: that equilibrium requires a...
Oskar Morgenstern, “Grundzüge einer neuen Theorie der Nachfrage” — Summary Morgenstern’s article is a foundational critique of ordinary demand theory...
Oskar Morgenstern, “Die Theorie der Spiele und des wirtschaftlichen Verhaltens” Morgenstern’s essay is a programmatic introduction to the theory of games as a new foundation for parts of economics that ordinary marginal...
Oskar Morgenstern, “When Is a Problem of Economic Policy Solvable?” (1953) This file is a single-author methodological essay in economic theory and policy analysis...
Oskar Morgenstern, The Validity of International Gold Movement Statistics (1955) Morgenstern’s paper is a methodological attack on a deceptively secure empirical foundation of international economics...
Oskar Morgenstern, Der theoretische Unterbau der Wirtschaftspolitik — Summary Morgenstern’s 1956 lecture asks what theory can legitimately do for economic policy...
Morgenstern, “The Question of National Defense” (1960) Morgenstern’s essay treats national defense as a strategic problem whose conditions have been transformed by nuclear weapons, delivery systems, and the speed of tech...
Oskar Morgenstern, International Financial Transactions and Business Cycles (1959) Morgenstern’s study examines how international financial transactions, especially under the gold standard and its interwar successors, in...
John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Spieltheorie und wirtschaftliches Verhalten This German translation of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior presents von Neumann and Morgenstern’s foundational attempt to recast e...
Oskar Morgenstern, “Die Anwendung der Spieltheorie in der Wirtschaftswissenschaft” (1962) Morgenstern’s essay is a methodological defense of game theory as more than a mathematical curiosity or auxiliary calculating devi...
Oskar Morgenstern, “Gibt es Grenzen?” — Summary This is a single-author methodological essay on the scope of mathematical methods in economics...
Summary Oskar Morgenstern’s On the Accuracy of Economic Observations is a revised methodological monograph on the reliability of economic statistics...