1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
This file is a brief, single-author theoretical-policy essay: Mises’s 1933 Festschrift contribution, here in English translation, on the state and near future of business-cycle research...
Richard Kerschagl, Die Goldklauselgesetzgebung in Österreich (1933) Kerschagl’s pamphlet is a real-time legal-economic guide to Austria’s spring 1933 Devisen- and gold-clause legislation...
Richard Thurnwald, „Die Persönlichkeit als Schlüssel zur Gesellschaftsforschung“ (1933) Richard Thurnwald’s 1933 essay is a methodological program for sociology...
Alexander Mahr, Die Stadtrandsiedlung (1933) Alexander Mahr’s 1933 Die Stadtrandsiedlung is a policy-economic pamphlet on Austria’s unemployment crisis, centered on Vienna but using German and American comparisons...
Hans Bayer, Die Wirtschaftslehre der „Quadragesimo anno“ (1933) Bayer reads Quadragesimo anno as a practical economic guide to the Depression, even though its explicit economic sentences are few...
Richard Strigl, Einzelinteressen oder Gemeinwohl als Ziel der Wirtschaftspolitik (1933) Opening with Mandeville and Adam Smith, Strigl’s 1933 essay is a crisis-era Austrian critique of economic policy that dresses sectio...
Erich Schiff, Kapitalbildung und Kapitalaufzehr im Konjunkturverlauf Erich Schiff’s study is a compact intervention in early empirical business-cycle research, issued within the Austrian Institute’s series rather than as...
Soziologie und Geschichte — Summary Mises’s essay defends sociology as a general theory of human action against historicism’s claim that action can be known only historically...
Engliš, Teleologische Theorie der Staatswirtschaft (1933) Engliš’s treatise constructs a theory of public economy from the ground up by asking what kind of knowledge economic theory is...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “The Common Sense of Econometrics” (1933) This file is a single-author programmatic essay, reprinted from the first issue of Econometrica...
Richard Kerschagl, Vom Widersinn des Marxismus (1933) The file contains a 1933 single-author polemical monograph in economics and political theory...
Carl Menger — F. A. von Hayek Hayek’s 1934 essay is a biographical introduction, a history of the Austrian School’s origins, and a correction of the strange obscurity surrounding its founder...