1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Schumpeter’s “The Historical Approach to the Analysis of Business Cycles” is a short, single-author conference paper. Reprinted from a 1949 business-cycle research conference, it is methodological and programmatic in sco...
Summary Haberler’s 1949 article is a theoretical reconstruction of the foreign-exchange market, aimed at clarifying when depreciation corrects a balance-of-payments deficit and when it may perversely aggravate it...
Richard Thurnwald, Der Mensch geringer Naturbeherrschung (1950) Thurnwald’s postwar synthesis reads human history as an ethnological and sociological reckoning after catastrophe...
Oskar Morgenstern, “Die Theorie der Spiele und des wirtschaftlichen Verhaltens” Morgenstern’s essay is a programmatic introduction to the theory of games as a new foundation for parts of economics that ordinary marginal...
Rappard, La Suisse et l’organisation de l’Europe William E. Rappard’s 1950 essay explains for Swiss readers the sudden proliferation of European and Atlantic institutions after 1947...
This essay is a compact diagnosis of whether interventionism can function as a stable third way between capitalism and socialism...
Report of the Committee on International Co-Operation: The I.E.A. Gottfried Haberler’s report is a procedural but revealing document about the postwar organization of economics as an international profession...
Alfred Schütz: Sprache, Sprachpathologie und Bewußtseinsstrukturierung This file is a single scholarly review-essay by Alfred Schütz...
Schütz, “Choosing Among Projects of Action” Schütz analyzes ordinary deliberation: how an actor determines future conduct after considering possible courses...
Richard Thurnwald, Des Menschengeistes Erwachen, Wachsen und Irren (1951) Thurnwald’s essay is an anthropology of mind directed against any simple story in which humanity passes from “primitive” darkness into modern reas...
Ilse Mintz, Deterioration in the Quality of Foreign Bonds Issued in the United States, 1920–1930 Ilse Mintz’s NBER study reinterprets interwar American foreign lending by shifting attention from the depression-era moment...
Engel-Janosi, “Graf Kálnokys Rücktritt als Außenminister im Mai 1895” Engel-Janosi’s article reconstructs Count Gustav Kálnoky’s resignation as Austro-Hungarian foreign minister in May 1895 as a diplomatic and constituti...