1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Inama-Sternegg’s essay, dedicated to Adolf Wagner, argues that urban land policy is the central municipal social question of the modern city and at the same time an older problem in new historical form. Its thesis is not that medieval and modern cities face identical circumstances, but that rapid urban growth repeatedly makes land a public matter. Population pressure, traffic, hygiene, aesthetics, public utilities, and housing all converge in the problem of control over urban soil. Hence the city must possess not ownership of all land, but a public territorial competence analogous to the state’s.
This file is a single-author journal essay from Die Woche (1905). Its occasion is the London session of the International Statistical Institute, but its scope is methodological: Inama-Sternegg asks what trade statistics can, and cannot, reveal about world commerce. His main thesis is that international trade statistics have improved, yet remain dangerous when read as self-evident economic truth rather than as products of differing administrative methods.
Wieser’s book is a historical diagnosis of Austria’s constitutional breakdown, written against the fashionable claim that parliamentarism everywhere was dying. Its thesis is sharper: Austria’s parliament is not senile but immature. The constitution was imported before the habits, parties, and self-discipline of self-government had formed; the crisis is therefore not fate but the consequence of a premature political form.
Lederer’s 1906 essay is a compact internal critique of Marx rather than a general polemic. He reads Capital by isolating four connected pressure points: the law of value, the role of competition, the formation of a uniform profit rate, and the relation between industrial and merchant capital. His opening frames the project as a test of Marx’s own foundations.
This 1906 single-author journal essay is a political-economic diagnosis. Prompted by Suke Yoshi Ito’s The World Year-book and by the Russo-Japanese War, it asks whether Japan’s emergence alters the structure of Weltwirtschaft. Its three sections move from Meiji trade statistics, to East Asian trade policy, to a theory of world markets. Its double thesis is that Japan is becoming East Asia’s economic organizer without yet being a first-rank world-economic power, and that world economy is an institutional field, not a stage beyond national economy.
This file is a short expanded newspaper essay from the Neue Freie Presse in which Inama-Sternegg treats technology as a cultural-historical problem. Its scope is wide: from prehistory and antiquity through Christianity, feudalism, printing, oceanic discovery, steam, and modern transport. The essay’s thesis is not that technology lacks cultural power, but that its power is intelligible only within wider moral, social, economic, and intellectual conditions.
Karl Theodor von Inama-Sternegg’s 1906 Austrian periodical article is a compact comparative essay on two Pacific-facing states that entered accelerated modernization in the late nineteenth century: Meiji Japan after 1868 and Porfirian Mexico after three decades of Díaz’s rule. Its scope is economic, demographic, infrastructural, and geopolitical. The central thesis is double: Mexico’s progress is real and admirable, yet Japan provides the stronger case of self-directed modernization and world-economic ascent.
This is a single-author commemorative newspaper essay by Carl Menger, written for the centenary of Mill’s birth. It is not a biography or a full survey of Mill’s writings, but a judgment on his continuing scholarly and public force. Menger begins from the fact that Mill has not become an obscure historical figure: his principal works remain in circulation and still shape educated discussion. The essay then narrows its scope to the two fields in which Menger sees Mill’s decisive labor, logic and political economy.
Schumpeter presents John Bates Clark as the central representative of a distinctly American current in pure economics and treats his Distribution of Wealth as important enough to require careful European exposition. The essay is framed not as criticism but as reconstruction: Schumpeter wants to display the inner architecture of Clark’s system before judging it.
This short obituary is a scholarly and political memorial, not a systematic treatise. Schumpeter’s scope is compact: he presents Rudolph Auspitz as a figure whose importance lay in the unusual combination of parliamentary influence, industrial experience, ethical liberalism, and first-rate mathematical economics. The central thesis is that Auspitz deserves remembrance both as a public man who subordinated private and class advantage to public welfare, and as a theorist whose joint work with Richard Lieben was among the strongest achievements of mathematical economics.
Schumpeter’s essay defends mathematical economics as the proper method of exact theory, not as an imitation of physics or a substitute for historical inquiry. The dispute with historicism is therefore narrowed: when economics analyzes relations among value, price, exchange, labor, interest, goods, and time, it is already working with quantities. To reject mathematics at that point is not to protect social complexity, but to deprive theory of its most adequate logical language.
This file is a single review essay from the Neue Freie Presse on Paul Leroy-Beaulieu’s L’art de placer et gérer sa fortune. Inama-Sternegg treats the book as more than a manual for investors: it becomes an occasion to ask whether political economy should serve private security alone or educate capital toward a social and productive function.