1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
This file is a single-author political-economic essay, reprinted from The Freeman (August 1977). Hazlitt revisits his own “Search for an Ideal Money” while assessing F. A...
Lachmann’s essay is a compact retrospective survey of economic thought from 1933 to 1953, written as intellectual history rather than as doctrinal inventory...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Toward a Free Market Monetary System” (1977) This is a single conference lecture. Its scope is a concentrated statement of Hayek’s late monetary program: government monopoly over currency issue has m...
Fritz Machlup, Würdigung der Werke von Friedrich A. von Hayek (1977) This 1977 German Walter Eucken Institut booklet is a scholarly appreciation, critical survey, and bibliography of Friedrich A. von Hayek’s writings...
Adam Smith’s Message in Today’s Language — Summary As supplied, this is a short reprinted chapter/essay by Friedrich A. Hayek, presented as a chapter in a larger collection...
Summary: Friedrich A. Hayek, “Can We Still Avoid Inflation?” Hayek’s lecture-essay treats inflation as a problem of political economy rather than a mere technical defect in monetary management...
Fritz Machlup, “Commentary on International Liquidity under Flexible Exchange Rates” Machlup’s commentary is a pointed post-Jamaica critique framed as a response to Dr...
Friedrich August von Hayek, “Competition as a Discovery Procedure” (1978) This file is a single-author lecture/essay. Hayek’s argument unfolds in numbered sections: first against textbook “perfect competition,” then thro...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Economic Freedom and Representative Government” — Summary Hayek’s Fourth Wincott Memorial Lecture revisits the warning of The Road to Serfdom from the vantage point of the 1970s...
Summary Mises’s Im Namen des Staates oder Die Gefahr des Kollektivismus, written in Geneva in 1938/39 and published only in 1978, diagnoses the doctrines that made modern war likely...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Liberalism” — Summary Hayek’s essay reconstructs liberalism as a doctrine of limited government, general law, and protected individual freedom...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Nature v. Nurture Once Again” This file is a single review-essay/comment on C. D. Darlington’s The Evolution of Man and Society...