1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Capital Consumption” Hayek’s essay examines how an advanced economy can impoverish itself by silently running down its capital structure...
Summary: Der Strom der Güter und Leistungen This file is a German lecture text, with a retrospective preface and the main 1981 LSE address...
Foreword — Summary This file is a brief foreword. Shackle’s scope is prefatory and conceptual: he frames Mr Shand’s book as a major survey of subjectivist thought, while also offering his own compressed statement of what...
The Future Unit of Value — Summary Hayek’s The Future Unit of Value is a short monetary-theory essay drawn from lectures in 1980 and 1981 and closely related to his earlier argument for the denationalization of money...
Gottfried Haberler, ed., The International Monetary System in the World Recession (1984) Haberler’s 1984 book is best read as a short edited symposium on the early-1980s downturn, not as a single essay...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Airport Congestion: A Case of Market Failure?” (1985) This file is a short single-author political-economic essay, later collected as a chapter in Rothbard’s broader critique of regulation and interv...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Competition at Work: Xerox at 25” — Summary This short polemical business essay uses the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Xerox 914 to make a broader argument about innovation, firm size, and competit...
This short theoretical note is a diagrammatic and elasticity-based intervention in international monetary theory. Its scope is narrow but policy-charged: Haberler asks whether currency depreciation necessarily worsens a...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Deductibility and Subsidy” (1985) — Summary This file is a brief single-author political-economic essay...
“Die Überheblichkeit der Vernunft” is a single public lecture. Hayek condenses his late liberal philosophy into the claim that civilization rests on inherited moral rules no one designed...
Israel M. Kirzner, Discovery and the Capitalist Process — Summary Kirzner’s collection advances a distinctively Austrian thesis: capitalism is not fundamentally a static mechanism for allocating known resources, but an o...
Summary: Hans F. Sennholz, “Employer of Last Resort” (1985) This file is a single polemical economics essay from The Freeman, with an inserted notice for a related debate booklet...