1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Fritz Machlup, Führer durch die Krisenpolitik (1934) Machlup’s Depression-era “guide” organizes crisis remedies by testing political slogans against economic interdependence...
Law, Legislation and Liberty — Summary Friedrich Hayek’s trilogy recasts liberal constitutionalism as a theory of evolved order, not a program of democratic command...
Machlup’s Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution and Economic Significance makes knowledge an object of economic analysis by translating a diffuse cultural notion into categories of stock, flow, production, distribution,...
Summary Fritz Machlup’s The Economics of Information and Human Capital, Volume III of Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic Significance, is a conceptual history of economics’ encounter with knowledge, info...
Science, Technology, and Government — Summary Rothbard’s 1959 monograph responds to post-Sputnik calls for state-directed science by denying that research can be exempted from ordinary economic reasoning...
Kauder’s history presents marginal utility theory as a long, uneven effort to explain valuation from the consumer’s standpoint...
Ludwig von Mises, Der freie Markt und seine Feinde — Summary This file is a German translation of Mises’s 1951 Foundation for Economic Education lecture series, delivered over twelve days and framed by Richard Ebeling’s...
Conceived in Liberty, Book Five — Summary Book Five is Rothbard’s posthumously edited culmination of a history that began with colonial resistance to empire and ends with nationalist recapture...
Marxism and the Manipulation of Man — Summary This lecture-essay, followed by a short question-and-answer addendum, surveys Marxism’s intellectual prestige and political uses rather than offering a technical economic cri...
Money, Interest, and the Business Cycle — Summary This file is a single-author theoretical lecture-essay, followed by brief question-and-answer comments...
This file is a single archival expert memorandum: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk’s confidential 15 July 1911 opinion to the imperial ministry on economic teaching posts at the University of Graz...
Josef Schumpeter, „Ist der Untergang des Handwerker- und Bauernstandes dem Staate nützlich?“ (1916) — Summary The supplied file is an edited reprint of a single short newspaper reply: Schumpeter answers Leopold Stocker’s...