1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Friedrich August von Hayek’s “The Webbs and Their Work” is a 1948 review essay on Beatrice Webb’s memoir Our Partnership, treating it as a major document for understanding the formation of modern British collectivism...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “There is Still Time to Stop Inflation” (1948) This is a single public economic-policy essay, first published in Nation’s Business...
Josef Klemens Kreibig und Richard Reisch, Bilanz und Steuer (1949) Kreibig and Reisch’s Bilanz und Steuer is a postwar textbook of bookkeeping, balance-sheet doctrine, and taxation that treats accounting as both a techni...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy” (lecture notes) This file records student notes from Schumpeter’s 1949 Institute of World Affairs lecture and its question-and-answer period...
Richard Kerschagl, Das Geld von heute (1949) Kerschagl’s 1949 treatise develops a theory of money from the experience of war finance, rationing, blocked balances, inflation, black markets, and administrative allocation...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “Economic Theory and Entrepreneurial History” (1949) This is a single-author theoretical-historical essay, reprinted from Change and the Entrepreneur...
English Economists and the State-Managed Economy — Summary Schumpeter’s 1949 review essay uses recent English books by Baster, Franks, Harrod, Jewkes, Meade, and Robbins to ask whether economists have drawn a serious ana...
Jacques Rueff, Épître aux dirigistes (4e éd., 1949) Rueff’s polemical volume brings together the Épître aux dirigistes and Le Dilemme français, applying one argument to both doctrine and postwar policy: planning, rationi...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “Science and Ideology” (1949) This file is a single methodological essay in economics, reprinted from the American Economic Review...
Alfred Amonn, Simonde de Sismondi als Nationalökonom, Zweiter Band — Summary Amonn’s second volume is a scholarly monograph on Sismondi’s later economics, especially the Nouveaux principes d’économie politique...
Fritz Machlup, “The Basing-point System” (1949) Machlup’s essay treats the basing-point system not as a harmless freight convention but as a pricing institution that turns geography into administered uniformity...
This file is a single-author scholarly article reprinted from Journal of Political Economy in which Joseph A. Schumpeter appraises the Communist Manifesto as sociology and economics...