1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
William E. Rappard, Emprunts et impôts de guerre à Genève pendant la Restauration, 1814–1816 (1917) Rappard presents this study as a precise correction to Genevan Restoration historiography: diplomacy, constitutional cha...
William E. Rappard, International Relations as Viewed from Geneva (1925) This is a single-author lecture volume: six Williamstown Institute of Politics lectures on the League of Nations, framed by A...
William E. Rappard, Uniting Europe: The Trend of International Cooperation Since the War (1930) Rappard’s work is a single-author interwar study of European and international cooperation after 1918, ranging from Germany’...
William E. Rappard’s L’individu et l’État dans l’évolution constitutionnelle de la Suisse is a single-author constitutional-historical study of Switzerland’s passage from the old Confederation through the Helvetic ruptur...
Rappard’s The Government of Switzerland (1936) explains Swiss constitutionalism as a historical equilibrium, not a transferable model...
William E. Rappard’s 1938 Cobden Lectures reconstruct the League of Nations’ frustrated campaign for freer trade after the First World War and ask why official unanimity in favor of liberal commerce produced almost no li...
William E. Rappard, The Crisis of Democracy (1938) Rappard’s 1938 Harris lectures diagnose democracy just as Bolshevism, Fascism, Nazism, and the League’s impotence had broken the nineteenth-century belief in democratic...
Rappard, The Quest for Peace since World War Two (1940) Rappard’s essay reconstructs the interwar quest for peace as a movement from legal hope to political constraint...
William E. Rappard, Du renouvellement des pactes confédéraux (1351-1798) Rappard studies the periodic sworn renewal of the old Swiss federal pacts, the institution called Beschwörung und Erneuerung der Bünde...
Rappard, Collective Security in Swiss Experience 1291–1948 Rappard’s 1948 study reads Swiss history not as the unfolding of nationality, but as a long institutional experiment in mutual protection...
William E. Rappard, Die Bundesverfassung der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft 1848–1948 Rappard’s centennial study is not an article-by-article legal commentary, but a historical interpretation of the Swiss Federal Cons...
Rappard, La Suisse et l’organisation de l’Europe William E. Rappard’s 1950 essay explains for Swiss readers the sudden proliferation of European and Atlantic institutions after 1947...