1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Friedrich Engel-Janosi, “Drei Jahre der Orient-Frage 1856–1859” Engel-Janosi’s article is a diplomatic history of the Eastern Question from the Paris settlement of 1856 to the Franco-Sardinian-Austrian war of 1859...
Felix Kaufmann, “Observations on the Ivory Tower” (1947) This file is a single-author philosophical essay of methodological criticism...
Hayek’s opening address to the April 1947 Mont Pèlerin Conference is a founding statement rather than a finished doctrine...
Hans Bayer, Sozialisierung und Planwirtschaft (1947) Bayer’s lecture treats “Sozialisierung” as a concept requiring theoretical discipline after its postwar political overuse...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “The Creative Response in Economic History” (1947) This file is a single-author scholarly article: a brief theoretical essay in economic history, organized in three sections...
Schumpeter’s 1947 essay is a methodological program for studying economic growth, not a completed theory of growth itself...
“Free” Enterprise and Competitive Order — Summary Hayek’s essay, first delivered in the Mont-Pèlerin context and later printed in Individualism and Economic Order, is a programmatic attempt to restate liberalism after th...
Hayek’s essay asks how the institutional virtues of the gold standard might be preserved without making gold itself the monetary anchor...
Richard Thurnwald, Aufbau und Sinn der Völkerwissenschaft (1948) Thurnwald’s Academy lecture is a postwar program for ethnology as a historical sociology of humanity...
Rappard, Collective Security in Swiss Experience 1291–1948 Rappard’s 1948 study reads Swiss history not as the unfolding of nationality, but as a long institutional experiment in mutual protection...
Leo Schönfeld-Illy, Das Gesetz des Grenznutzens (1948) Leo Schönfeld-Illy’s Das Gesetz des Grenznutzens is a single-author theoretical monograph on marginal utility and the consumer’s economic calculation...
William E. Rappard, Die Bundesverfassung der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft 1848–1948 Rappard’s centennial study is not an article-by-article legal commentary, but a historical interpretation of the Swiss Federal Cons...