1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Alte Wahrheiten und neue Irrtümer is a single 1963 conference lecture. Speaking to an international savings-bank congress, Hayek treats saving as an economic, moral, and political institution...
Summary: Ordo XIV (1963), including Friedrich A. von Hayek’s “Arten der Ordnung” This Markdown source represents a multi-contributor Ordo yearbook volume devoted to the “order” of economy and society...
Ludwig M. Lachmann’s “Cultivated Growth and the Market Economy” is a presidential address devoted less to policy advocacy than to conceptual clarification...
Bayer develops the medium-sized, personally shaped enterprise as a central but politically and institutionally vulnerable form of economic order...
Eric Voegelin’s “Das Rechte von Natur” is a compact German philosophical essay in two sections, “Physei Dikaion” and “Phronesis.” It reconstructs Aristotle’s physei dikaion and uses that reconstruction to intervene in mo...
Hayek’s text is a public lecture-essay on David Hume’s legal and political philosophy. Its scope is corrective: Hume is read not mainly as Kant’s epistemological provocation, but as the major theorist of the rule of law,...
Richard Kerschagl, Einführung in die Finanzwissenschaft (1963) Richard Kerschagl’s Einführung in die Finanzwissenschaft is a public-finance textbook with a broad comparative scope: it introduces the theory of state reven...
Oskar Morgenstern, “Gibt es Grenzen?” — Summary This is a single-author methodological essay on the scope of mathematical methods in economics...
Summary Oskar Morgenstern’s On the Accuracy of Economic Observations is a revised methodological monograph on the reliability of economic statistics...
Fritz Machlup, “On the Cultivation of Economic Semantics” Fritz Machlup’s text is a short methodological introduction on economic language, organized as a historical defense of semantic clarification in economics...
Friedrich August von Hayek, “Recht, Gesetz und Wirtschaftsfreiheit” (1963) Hayek’s 1963 commemorative lecture for the centenary of the Dortmund Chamber of Industry and Commerce treats economic freedom as a constitutional...
Friedrich A. von Hayek, “Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Politik” (1963) This file is Hayek’s Freiburg inaugural lecture, a programmatic academic address on the relation between economics, science, and policy...