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This file is a single official letter. Dated Vienna, 10 December 1917, it records Gustav Adolf Groß’s formal thanks to an unnamed general for handling a request concerning “die Enthebung des Julius Abele.” Its scope is narrow, but its significance lies in the bureaucratic and social form of wartime political communication: parliamentary authority addresses military authority through deference, gratitude, and institutional decorum.
This file is a brief wartime letter by Joseph Alois Schumpeter, dated 14 January 1917, addressed deferentially to an aristocratic recipient as “Euer Erlaucht.” Its scope is narrow but politically suggestive: Schumpeter is not developing the content of the two memoranda he encloses, but explaining their origin, circulation, and intended function within conservative political networks of the Habsburg Monarchy.
This file is a brief private political letter dated 16 July 1917, in which Joseph Alois Schumpeter responds to a high-ranking correspondent and turns an exchange of letters into a compressed diagnosis of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy’s wartime crisis. Its occasion is immediate—a reluctant trip to Vienna to speak before the Political Society—but its scope is constitutional and national: Schumpeter asks how the Monarchy might regain internal peace without either surrendering state authority or intensifying German-national pressure.
This file is a single dated letter, not an essay or treatise. Its scope is narrow but revealing: Schumpeter writes deferentially to an aristocratic correspondent, acknowledging receipt of a friendly letter, thanking him for praise and criticism of a memorandum, accepting an invitation to discuss it in person, and noting the memorandum’s transmission to the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister. The document’s importance lies less in explicit theory than in its glimpse of Schumpeter’s wartime political-intellectual networking: an economic or political memorandum is being circulated through elite channels, and Schumpeter positions himself as both grateful recipient of patronage and active participant in policy conversation.
This file is a short political letter with the character of a memorandum, written by Joseph Alois Schumpeter on 25 June 1917 to an aristocratic addressee (“Euer Erlaucht”). Its scope is narrow but urgent: Schumpeter comments on the crisis of parliamentary government in wartime Austria-Hungary and argues that only decisive constitutional and national-political concessions can avert a deeper collapse of the monarchy.
This file is a single private letter, dated 4 June 1917, from Joseph Alois Schumpeter to an aristocratic correspondent addressed as “Euer Erlaucht.” Its scope is narrow but politically suggestive: it records travel logistics, missed personal contact, discussion of a memorandum sent to Count Czernin, and Schumpeter’s willingness to participate in preparatory talks for a projected conservative organ.
This file is a single wartime political letter, not a treatise or collection. Written by Schumpeter to Count Otto Harrach, it compresses constitutional diagnosis, parliamentary criticism, and strategic counsel into an epistolary form that the author explicitly tries to keep from becoming an essay.
This file is a single formal political letter, dated 7 May 1917, in which Schumpeter writes to an aristocratic patron while sending a separate memorandum on Austria-Hungary’s wartime situation. The letter’s scope is brief but programmatic: it diagnoses a moment of danger for the Habsburg monarchy, argues for conservative coordination, proposes a conservative press organ, and sketches an unofficial mission to Sweden as preparation for peace diplomacy.
The file is a single private wartime letter from Schumpeter to Count Otto Harrach, not a treatise or collection. Its scope is narrow but politically dense: Schumpeter turns Harrach’s suggestions into a memorandum on Habsburg strategy, conservative organization, constitutional reform, and press power. The central thesis is that Austria-Hungary can survive the war politically only if it articulates aims distinct from Germany, reorganizes itself constitutionally, and equips conservative forces with modern instruments of public influence and state power.
Schumpeter’s 1917/18 essay is a theoretical intervention in wartime monetary controversy. Against the view that the war had made inherited economics obsolete, he treats the currency crisis as an intensified version of recurrent problems. The point is not to defend an old school intact, but to isolate what metallists, nominalists, quantity theorists, Knappians, and Bendixen had each seen correctly.
Schwiedland’s two Vienna lectures present economic history as a movement from small, self-sufficient units toward ever wider, more specialized, and more fragile systems of mutual dependence. The work begins from a material anthropology: human culture rests on the appropriation, transformation, and multiplication of the earth’s gifts.
Schwiedland’s 1917 pamphlet frames the relation between persons and social wholes as a problem shared by sociology, ethics, law, and economics. The two lectures ask how collective life forms individuals, disciplines them, and also depends on their initiative.