1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Alfred Schütz, “Der gut informierte Bürger” (1946) — Summary This file is a single-author theoretical essay in six sections...
Individualism: True and False — Summary F. A. Hayek’s Individualism: True and False is the Twelfth Finlay Lecture, delivered in Dublin in 1945 and published in 1946...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946” (1946) Schumpeter’s memoir reconstructs Keynes as a peculiarly English public intellectual: not a pure theorist, not a party politician, but a policy mind whose econo...
Fritz Machlup, “Marginal Analysis and Empirical Research” (1946) Machlup’s essay is a defense of marginal analysis against empirical critics who claimed that actual business behavior refuted it...
Friedrich Engel-Janosi, „Österreich-Ungarn im Sommer 1870“ — Summary Engel-Janosi’s article explains Austria-Hungary’s neutrality at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War not as simple weakness or indecision, but as th...
Summary — W. L. Crum and Joseph A. Schumpeter, Rudimentary Mathematics for Economists and Statisticians (1946) Crum and Schumpeter’s textbook is a deliberately elementary initiation into the mathematical habits needed by...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “The Decade of the Twenties” (1946) This reprinted AER Supplement article treats the U.S. 1920s and the crisis of 1929–32 as a test case for economic analysis...
This file is a short 1946 economic memorandum/essay by Ludwig von Mises. Its scope is a compressed statement of Austrian trade-cycle theory: cheap-money policy, by forcing interest below its market level through bank cre...
Alfred Amonn, “Wert- und Preistheorie und Preispolitik” (1946) This file contains Alfred Amonn’s five-part contribution to the 1946 Swiss theoretical-economics volume Konkurrenz und Planwirtschaft...
Cooperatives in the Petroleum Industry — Summary This file treats the cooperative petroleum movement as an economic development and as an ideological contest...
Richard Kerschagl, Das soziale Wunschbild als ökonomischer Faktor (1947) Kerschagl’s rectoral address presents the social Wunschbild not as escapist utopia but as an active economic factor...
Hans Bayer, Die Zukunft der österreichischen Volkswirtschaft (1947) Bayer’s 1947 booklet brings together five lectures given in Innsbruck in 1946 on Austria’s postwar economic future, money and credit, wages and prices,...