1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Eugen Schwiedland’s Volkswirtschaftslehre is a lecture-course introduction to political economy for the Technische Hochschule in Wien. It is systematic rather than narrowly original, moving from wants, goods, value, and production to enterprise forms, transport, trade, labor, money, credit, banking, and markets. Written during the First World War, it treats economic life as inseparable from technical development, state power, colonial expansion, and competition among national economies.
This short newspaper interview and policy statement, published in Vienna in March 1919, presents Josef Schumpeter’s program as Austria’s new State Secretary of Finance. Its scope is immediate and practical: the fiscal stabilization of a postwar state whose borders, currency, debt, and international credit position remained unsettled. Schumpeter’s central thesis is that finance must become an instrument of economic reconstruction, not a battlefield for short-term politics.
This short newspaper report records Schumpeter’s remarks as Staatssekretär before the Budget Committee in Vienna in July 1919. It is not a systematic essay, but a compressed document of postwar economic statecraft: provisional budgeting, deficit uncertainty, monetary restraint, unemployment, and the proposed “Sozialisierungsbank” are treated as parts of one institutional crisis.
This short newspaper intervention, written by Schumpeter as Austria’s State Secretary for Finance in April 1919, addresses the financial consequences of the Hungarian Soviet Republic for German-Austrian investors, banks, creditors, and shareholders. Its scope is not theoretical economics in the abstract but urgent financial diplomacy: Schumpeter seeks to calm panic while defining the minimum claims that German-Austria must press against revolutionary Hungary.
Richard Reisch’s lecture of 5 February 1919 presents the financial crisis of Deutsch-Österreich as the central problem of republican reconstruction. Its governing claim is that fiscal repair cannot be isolated from the whole economic and political order. Finance depends on production, credit, trade, currency, and social policy, yet the emergency is so severe that financial policy will also shape the new state’s political direction.
This file is a newspaper report of a 1919 Viennese public lecture by Joseph Schumpeter. Its scope is a compressed sociological interpretation of the United States after the World War: population, regional economy, constitution, parties, cultural development, and the motives of American intervention. Schumpeter’s main thesis is that America is neither wholly alien nor reducible to economic power; it is a European-derived society, enlarged and transformed by its institutions, geography, and moral self-understanding.
Schwiedland’s treatise defines the cooperative as an economic association rather than a charitable or merely political form:
This file is a short single-author journal intervention: a postwar policy essay on Austria’s immediate fiscal and economic prospects after imperial collapse. Schumpeter’s scope is deliberately near-term and practical. Against the prevailing “Zusammenbruchs-Stimmung,” he argues that pessimism is understandable but politically dangerous, because Austria’s future depends less on fate than on whether policy preserves credit, restarts production, and removes wartime controls.
Joseph A. Schumpeter’s Grundlinien der Finanzpolitik für jetzt und die nächsten drei Jahre is a single-author 1919 financial-policy memorandum. Written for post-Habsburg Deutschösterreich, it proposes an emergency program for the few years before production and ordinary revenues can recover. Its sections move from monetary first principles and deficit diagnosis, through credit policy and the wealth levy, to currency stabilization, a note bank, expenditure cuts, and a permanent tax settlement.
Mises’s Nation, Staat und Wirtschaft reads the First World War and its aftermath as a crisis of ideas rather than as a mere diplomatic disaster. Its opening gesture is methodological: instead of assigning guilt, Mises asks which doctrines made European war, economic regimentation, and political collapse possible.
Friedrich von Wieser’s 1919 essay explains the Habsburg collapse not as simple internal decay but as the result of a world-historical convergence: nationalism, war, Entente over-power, hunger, and revolution. He refuses memoir or archival exposé and writes instead a structural account of mass forces.
Thurnwald’s text is a single-authored systematic essay in comparative ethnology, sociology, and legal history, based chiefly on South Sea fieldwork. Its scope is the “beginnings” of the state among Papuan, Melanesian, and Micronesian/Polynesian peoples, but “beginning” is methodological rather than chronological: contemporary societies are not fossils, yet they can discipline speculation about stateless and early-state forms.