1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
This is a single phenomenological essay. Schütz analyzes the Lebenswelt as the world of nature, culture, and society lived in the natural attitude...
Fritz Machlup, “The Book Value of Monetary Gold” (1971) Machlup’s essay, written after the August 1971 suspension of U.S. gold sales to foreign monetary authorities, argues against confused monetary language...
This file is a compact multi-author critical dossier, not a single essay. Its four-part structure frames, presents, and revises Eric Voegelin’s reading of Henry James: Donald E...
Friedrich Engel-Janosi, Vom Chaos zur Katastrophe (1971) This is a scholarly historical monograph in diplomatic and intellectual history...
Friedrich Engel-Janosi’s “Bemerkungen über hypothetische Geschichtsschreibung” is a compact historiographical essay on a major Enlightenment procedure: writing history where evidence is fragmentary by means of analogy, a...
Summary: “Herbert Hoover and the Myth of Laissez-Faire” Murray N. Rothbard’s 1972 historical essay surveys Herbert Hoover’s political economy from the post–World War I “Reconstruction Program” through his presidency and...
Oskar Morgenstern, “Social Aspirations and Optimality” — Summary This file is a short single-author academic discussion. Morgenstern is speaking as a discussant, responding mainly to Abram Bergson and Jan Tinbergen, with...
Fritz Machlup, The Alignment of Foreign Exchange Rates (1973) Machlup’s Horowitz Lectures argue that persistent balance-of-payments disequilibrium should normally be met by exchange-rate realignment rather than by contro...
This short work is a conference-style critical commentary, not a freestanding treatise: Machlup responds to Abram Bergson on socialist productive efficiency and Jan Tinbergen on egalitarian welfare economics...
Fritz Machlup, “The Universal Bogey” (1972) This is a single-author methodological essay whose scope is the history, logical status, and theoretical function of Economic Man...
Murray N. Rothbard, “War Collectivism in World War I” — Summary Rothbard’s essay treats U.S. economic mobilization in World War I not as a temporary emergency departure from capitalism, but as the formative episode in Am...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Controlling Pollution” (1973) “Controlling Pollution” is a single-author lecture-essay in libertarian political economy, delivered at the Foundation for Economic Education and published in The Freeman....