1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Emil Sax, Das Wesen und die Aufgaben der Nationalökonomie (1884) Sax presents Nationalökonomie as a discipline whose difficulty is not a single erroneous doctrine but a confused constitution...
Carl Theodor von Inama-Sternegg, “Die Ansiedelungsformen in den Alpen” (1884) This file is a short lecture sketch delivered before the k. k. geographische Gesellschaft...
Carl Menger, Irrthümer des Historismus in der Deutschen Nationalökonomie (1884) Menger’s Irrthümer continues the methodological dispute opened by his Untersuchungen über die Methode and is a central document of the Metho...
Meyer, Die Principien der gerechten Besteuerung in der neueren Finanzwissenschaft (1884) Meyer frames the treatise as an inquiry into how modern finance science has tried to make taxation just, rather than as a program f...
Böhm-Bawerk, Kapital und Kapitalzins (1921) Böhm-Bawerk’s Kapital und Kapitalzins is a historical-critical preparation for a positive theory of interest...
Friedrich von Wieser, Über den Ursprung und die Hauptgesetze des wirthschaftlichen Werthes (1884) Wieser’s treatise gives a systematic theory of economic value from first principles: value is not an intrinsic property of...
Philippovich’s study traces the Bank of England’s conversion from a private corporation and public creditor into a central organ of fiscal administration...
Gustav Groß, Karl Marx. Eine Studie (1885) Gustav Groß’s study presents Marx as a figure whose historical force cannot be explained either by biography alone or by doctrine alone...
Eugen von Philippovich, Über Aufgabe und Methode der politischen Ökonomie Philippovich’s inaugural lecture enters the German Methodenstreit by refusing the premise that political economy has one exclusive task and one pr...
Meyer, Das Wesen des Einkommens (1887) Meyer begins from a conceptual difficulty: income is indispensable in ordinary economic life, taxation, statistics, and political economy, yet becomes obscure when treated as a rigo...
Emil Sax, Grundlegung der theoretischen Staatswirthschaft (1887) Emil Sax’s 1887 treatise founds Staatswirthschaft as a theoretical science of public economy and finance...
Carl Menger, “Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie” (1887) Menger’s essay is formally a review of the second, enlarged edition of Gustav Schönberg’s collective Handbuch der politischen Oekonomie, but it functions as a co...