1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Kaufmann’s Methodenlehre seeks to end the Methodenstreit by disarming its philosophical slogans. It is not a defense of naturalism, antinaturalism, phenomenology, historicism, economics, or legal positivism, but a formal critique of the principles by which each claims methodological supremacy. Methods are judged by problem-type, procedure-type, and research aim, not by metaphysical prestige.
Schumpeter’s essay is a single-author work of intellectual history and theoretical appraisal. It is ostensibly about Taussig’s Wages and Capital, but its scope is the development of economic theory from the English classics to Marshall, Walras, Menger, and the modern American scene. Its thesis is that theory changes by cumulative logical refinement, and that Taussig’s book is central because it both ends the wages-fund muddle and redirects attention to capital as a time-structured process.
Engliš’s treatise intervenes in the interwar vogue for “planned” or “regulated” economy by separating crisis improvisation, collectivist planning, syndical organization, and genuine state regulation. Its thesis is not that planning is simply good or bad, but that political debate has confused different “Ordnungsprinzipien.” The decisive question is whether state intervention merely extends old policy, replaces private production with collectivism, or alters the price-and-responsibility mechanism inside an entrepreneurial order.
This file is a single-author journal review: Schumpeter’s 1936 response to Keynes’s General Theory. Its scope is a compact critical appraisal of the book’s claim to be general theory. Schumpeter begins by granting the scale of the event: Keynes has produced a work whose influence is already visible in students, reviewers, and public debate.
Ludwig von Mises’s “The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle” is a short, single-author theoretical essay. Its scope is deliberately compressed: Mises gives a genealogy and policy statement of the monetary theory of crises, identifying credit expansion through fiduciary media as the source of the boom-bust cycle.
Rappard’s The Government of Switzerland (1936) explains Swiss constitutionalism as a historical equilibrium, not a transferable model. Written for American students, it presents Switzerland as a small counterpart to the United States: an old republic, a federation built from local sovereignties, a source of the initiative and referendum, and a plural society whose neutrality partly recalls American isolation. Its thesis is that Swiss government lives by negotiated tensions—canton and Confederation, liberty and protection, representative and direct democracy, neutrality and collective security.
Hayek’s “The Mythology of Capital” is a single-author theoretical journal article. Its scope is a polemical reconstruction of capital theory against Frank H. Knight’s attack on the Austrian “period of investment.” In six sections Hayek states Knight’s position, clears away misconceptions about Austrian time analysis, answers Knight’s examples, argues that Knight cannot explain how capital scarcity limits output, examines the zero-interest case, and closes on perfect foresight.
Haberler’s 1936 English translation of his 1933 German treatise is a systematic monograph on international trade theory and commercial policy. Its central move is to absorb international trade into general price theory, rejecting the idea that foreign trade requires a separate set of principles. The book moves from the foreign-exchange market and balance-of-payments adjustment, through comparative cost recast in opportunity-cost terms, to the analysis of tariffs, quotas, and other trade-policy interventions.
Fritz Machlup’s 1936 Economica article is a brief single-author methodological note in economic theory, written after debates over Lionel Robbins’s definition of economics and Ralph Souter’s resistance to disciplinary “regimentation.” Its scope is modest but pointed: Machlup does not construct a full philosophy of economics, but shows that method matters for ordinary causal arguments.
Mises’ 1936 essay is both a theoretical argument and a review of William E. Rappard’s study of Swiss constitutional history. Its central claim is that political liberalism and economic liberalism cannot be durably separated: civil liberty, parliamentarism, and democracy depend on the institutional limits created by private property and market exchange.
The file is a 1936 journal offprint (Sonderabdruck) from Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Band VII, Heft 3. Its front matter names Hans Mayer, Richard Reisch, and Richard Schüller as the periodical’s editors and Oskar Morgenstern as managing editor; the substantive contribution is Richard von Strigl’s ten-section study, whose numbered parts form the operative chapter structure. Strigl’s aim is to connect Austrian imputation theory with the refined Anglo-American theory of costs and returns.
This brief letter is a small document of intellectual sociability: Schütz writes to a friend immediately after returning from Paris, carrying with him both a periodical and a book. Its central movement is the conversion of travel into exchange—of journals, essays, gifts, and good wishes. The note shows scholarship not as solitary production but as a material practice of circulation: one reads because another has noticed, acquired, transported, lent, and requested the return of a text.