1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Schütz on James’s “Stream of Thought” Alfred Schütz’s essay reads William James’s doctrine of the “stream of thought” as a decisive anticipation of phenomenological problems later made explicit by Husserl...
Gottfried Haberler, Consumer Instalment Credit and Economic Fluctuations (1942) This is an economic research monograph on consumer instalment credit and business-cycle theory, supplemented by a technical appendix by Samu...
Friedrich August von Hayek, “Der Ricardo-Effekt” (1942) This file is a single-author theoretical chapter/essay in seven sections...
Richard von Strigl, “Der Wicksellsche Prozeß” (1942) Strigl uses Erik Lindahl’s Studies in the Theory of Money and Capital to restate Wicksell’s cumulative process as a general theory of monetary disturbance...
Friedrich Engel-Janosi, Ein Kampf um Österreich in Berlin und Frankfurt 1849–1855 Engel-Janosi’s text is a single historical essay in diplomatic and intellectual history, organized in two parts, “Berlin” and “Frankfurt.”...
Alfred Amonn, Probleme der Kriegswirtschaft (1941/42) Amonn’s wartime essay treats war economy as a transformation of the whole economic order, not as a military sector added to an otherwise normal peace economy...
Genre and scope: despite collected-volume page headers, the supplied file is a single 1942 scholarly essay by Alfred Schütz; no contributor-chapter structure is present...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “Capitalism in the Postwar World” (1943) Schumpeter’s essay is a wartime exercise in institutional prognosis...
Alfred Schütz: Das Problem der Rationalität in der sozialen Welt (1943) This is a single methodological essay: Schütz critiques the loose use of “rationality” in social theory, beginning from Parsons’s definition of rati...
Fritz Machlup’s 1943 article is a conceptual survey of “forced saving,” a term that had migrated through monetary theory, cycle theory, development economics, war finance, fiscal policy, socialism, rationing, and corpora...
This file is a short scholarly introduction by Joseph A. Schumpeter to Father Dempsey’s Interest and Usury. Its scope is evaluative and methodological: Schumpeter explains why Dempsey’s study matters for the history of e...
Ludwig M. Lachmann’s “The Role of Expectations in Economics as a Social Science” is a single 1943 theoretical article. Its scope is methodological and dynamic: how can expectations enter economics when action is future-o...