1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Hermann v. Schullern-Schrattenhofen, Untersuchungen über Begriff und Wesen der Grundrente Schullern-Schrattenhofen’s 1889 study recasts rent theory within Austrian marginalism...
Emil Zuckerkandl, Zur Theorie des Preises (1889) Zuckerkandl’s Zur Theorie des Preises is at once a history of price doctrine and a methodological reconstruction of price theory in the Austrian, Mengerian direction...
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, “Historische und theoretische Nationalökonomie” Böhm-Bawerk’s essay is a review of Gustav Schmoller’s Zur Literaturgeschichte der Staats- und Sozialwissenschaften, but its real object is the method...
Boehm-Bawerk, “Macvane’s Political Economy” (1890) Boehm-Bawerk’s review of S. M. Macvane’s Working Principles of Political Economy diagnoses economics at a moment of theoretical transition...
This short correspondence is a concentrated intervention in the late nineteenth-century debate over capital and interest. Bonar’s prefatory close frames Professor Giddings’s position as a disguised return to abstinence t...
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, “Die österreichische Schule” (1891) This is a single-author programmatic journal essay: Böhm-Bawerk presents the Austrian School’s theoretical project, its relation to the Methodenstreit, and its d...
This is a two-part political-economic newspaper essay. Menger uses the neglected German centenary of Adam Smith’s death to challenge the reigning German “social-political” interpretation of classical economics...
Schullern-Schrattenhofen’s study introduces recent Italian theoretical economics to German readers by arguing that Italy has again become scientifically consequential after an earlier history of brilliance, decline, and...
Victor Mataja, Großmagazine und Kleinhandel (1891) Mataja’s book is a single-author political-economy monograph: an expanded 1891 lecture on the department store as a new retail form...
Carl Menger, “Lorenz von Stein + 23. September 1890” (1891) Genre and scope: this is a single-author academic necrology and intellectual appraisal...
Friedrich Wieser’s 1891 essay presents Austrian value theory as an empirical, not speculative, abstraction. Against the German historical school’s suspicion of “abstract” economics, Wieser argues that Austrian theory ide...
Eugen von Philippovich, “The Verein für Sozialpolitik” (1891) Von Philippovich presents the Verein as both symptom and instrument of Germany’s passage from Manchester liberalism to organized social reform...