1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Friedrich von Wieser’s Die Theorie der städtischen Grundrente develops a systematic account of urban land rent by first distinguishing it from the Ricardo-Thünen model of agricultural rent...
Wieser’s essay explains Austria-Hungary’s resumption of specie payments as a historically constrained monetary reform rather than a simple technical correction...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Gibt es einen „Widersinn des Sparens“?” (1929) Hayek’s essay attacks W. T. Foster and W. Catchings’ underconsumption theory and uses it to restate an Austrian account of money and capital...
Friedrich von Wieser, “Grenznutzen” (1900) The requested work is a single-author encyclopedia article from the Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften, reprinted in Wieser’s collected essays...
Friedrich von Wieser, “Großbetrieb und Produktivgenossenschaft” Wieser’s essay examines the socialist demand that workers possess the means of production by asking what institutional form could actually join labor, capit...
Friedrich von Wieser, “Gut” (1892; repr. 1929) Wieser’s lexicon article defines the economic meaning of Gut by distinguishing it from moral, poetic, legal, and merely physical senses of “good.” Economics is not concerned...
Lederer / Lederer-Seidler, Japan – Europa (1929) Japan – Europa presents Japan not as an exotic object beside Europe, but as the privileged site where a world-historical rupture becomes visible...
Joseph Alois Schumpeter, “Ökonomie und Psychologie des Unternehmers” (1929) This file is a single occasional lecture: Schumpeter addresses an industrial association in Weimar Germany and deliberately turns from immediate...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “Ökonomie und Soziologie der Einkommensteuer” (1929) Schumpeter’s article is a compact three-part fiscal-political essay written as Germany awaited a major Finanzreform...
Hans Bayer, Strukturwandlungen der österreichischen Volkswirtschaft nach dem Kriege Hans Bayer’s 1929 study is a scholarly economic monograph that joins theory and empirical diagnosis: it first defines what “structure” a...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Exchange Value of Money: A Review” (1929) Hayek’s review of Hans Neisser’s Der Tauschwert des Geldes is both appreciative and methodologically guarded...
Braun et al., Theorie der staatlichen Wirtschaftspolitik (1929) Braun’s Theorie der staatlichen Wirtschaftspolitik defines economic policy theory not as a doctrine of desirable social ends, but as an analytical science o...