1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Kaufmann, Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936) Kaufmann’s Methodenlehre seeks to end the Methodenstreit by disarming its philosophical slogans...
Schumpeter’s essay is a single-author work of intellectual history and theoretical appraisal. It is ostensibly about Taussig’s Wages and Capital, but its scope is the development of economic theory from the English class...
Karel Engliš, Regulierte Wirtschaft (1936) Engliš’s treatise intervenes in the interwar vogue for “planned” or “regulated” economy by separating crisis improvisation, collectivist planning, syndical organization, and gen...
This file is a single-author journal review: Schumpeter’s 1936 response to Keynes’s General Theory. Its scope is a compact critical appraisal of the book’s claim to be general theory...
Ludwig von Mises’s “The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle” is a short, single-author theoretical essay. Its scope is deliberately compressed: Mises gives a genealogy and policy statement of the monetary theory of crises...
Rappard’s The Government of Switzerland (1936) explains Swiss constitutionalism as a historical equilibrium, not a transferable model...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Mythology of Capital” (1936) — Summary Hayek’s “The Mythology of Capital” is a single-author theoretical journal article...
Gottfried Haberler, The Theory of International Trade (1936) Haberler’s 1936 English translation of his 1933 German treatise is a systematic monograph on international trade theory and commercial policy...
Fritz Machlup, “Why Bother with Methodology?” (1936) Fritz Machlup’s 1936 Economica article is a brief single-author methodological note in economic theory, written after debates over Lionel Robbins’s definition of econo...
Ludwig von Mises, “Wirtschaftsordnung und politische Verfassung” Mises’ 1936 essay is both a theoretical argument and a review of William E. Rappard’s study of Swiss constitutional history...
Summary The file is a 1936 journal offprint (Sonderabdruck) from Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Band VII, Heft 3. Its front matter names Hans Mayer, Richard Reisch, and Richard Schüller as the periodical’s editors and...
Summary of “Brief von Schütz an einen Freund” (23 December 1937) This brief letter is a small document of intellectual sociability: Schütz writes to a friend immediately after returning from Paris, carrying with him both...