1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Fritz Machlup, Knowledge, Volume II: The Branches of Learning Machlup’s second volume in the Knowledge project turns away from economic measurement and toward the intellectual and institutional ordering of knowledge itse...
Ludwig M. Lachmann, “The Salvage of Ideas” Lachmann’s essay is an intellectual history of Austrian economics after its mid-century eclipse and a methodological argument for how such a tradition can be revived...
Summary This is a single-author scholarly lecture/occasional paper, prepared for the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize and later reprinted...
Karl Pribram, A History of Economic Reasoning (1983) Pribram’s posthumous work presents economics not as a linear accumulation of doctrines but as a sequence of intellectual forms that make doctrines possible...
Fritz Machlup, “Autonomous and Induced Items in the Balance of Payments” (1983) Machlup’s essay is a methodological intervention into balance-of-payments theory...
Friedrich August von Hayek, “Die überschätzte Vernunft” (1983) — Summary Hayek’s text is a symposium lecture, followed by an oral supplement, on cultural evolution, social order, religion, and population...
Haberler, Economic Malaise Haberler’s essay is a counterfactual programme for the stagflationary malaise after the postwar boom...
Friedrich August von Hayek, Evolution und spontane Ordnung (1983) This file is a single 1983 Zürich lecture. Hayek presents a compressed prospectus for the project that would become The Fatal Conceit: a defense of the ev...
Hayek, “The Rules Of Morality Are Not The Conclusions Of Our Reason” (1983) Hayek’s plenary lecture is a defense of inherited moral rules against the modern belief that society can redesign its norms by explicit reasonin...
This file is an edited German translation of six public lectures on economic policy, delivered by Ludwig von Mises in Buenos Aires in 1958 and posthumously prepared for publication by Margit von Mises...
This second edition of Hobart Paper 87 gathers five linked Hayek essays on unemployment, inflation, price signals, and British trade-union power, framed by Arthur Seldon and followed by Charles G...
Murray N. Rothbard, “A Walk on the Supply Side” — Summary Rothbard’s “A Walk on the Supply Side,” collected in Making Economic Sense, is a compact polemic against supply-side economics as an intellectual fashion of the l...