1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Oskar Morgenstern, The Validity of International Gold Movement Statistics (1955) Morgenstern’s paper is a methodological attack on a deceptively secure empirical foundation of international economics...
George L. S. Shackle, “Three Versions of the $\phi$-Surface: Some Notes for a Comparison” — Summary Shackle’s note compares two proposed revisions of his $\phi$-surface, by J. Mars and H. G...
Summary: “Twenty Years On: A Survey of the Theory of the Multiplier” Shackle’s essay is at once a historical commemoration and a conceptual clarification of multiplier theory...
Richard Thurnwald, “Völkerkundliche Vergleiche unter den Erdteilen” (1955) Thurnwald’s essay, written in 1945 and published in 1955, is a methodological reflection on how ethnology can compare cultures across continents...
George L. S. Shackle, “What Makes an Economist?” (1953/1955) Shackle’s essay is a reflective lecture on economic formation: part epistemology, part disciplinary map, part educational manifesto...
Hans Bayer, Die überbetriebliche Mitbestimmung und die technische Entwicklung der industriellen Gesellschaft (1956) Hans Bayer’s 1956 lecture intervenes in an already extensive Mitbestimmungs debate by shifting its groun...
Richard Kerschagl, John Law: Die Erfindung der modernen Banknote (1956) Kerschagl’s study is a rehabilitation of John Law and a genealogy of modern monetary institutions...
Alfred Schütz, Mozart und die Philosophen (1956) Taken as a volume rather than as one isolated article, the source is a compact, edited reception history of Mozart’s philosophical afterlife...
Summary This file is a single theoretical essay in political economy. Reprinted from a Mises festschrift, it addresses a postwar concession made even by some friends of markets: that market allocation may be efficient, b...
Alfred Schütz, „Das Problem der transzendentalen Intersubjektivität bei Husserl“ (1957) Schütz’s 1957 essay is a compact immanent critique of Husserl’s attempt to derive alter ego, objective world, and “world for everyon...
Oskar Morgenstern, Der theoretische Unterbau der Wirtschaftspolitik — Summary Morgenstern’s 1956 lecture asks what theory can legitimately do for economic policy...
Alfred Schütz, „Die Gleichheit und die Sinnstruktur der sozialen Welt“ (1957) Schütz’s essay is a phenomenological analysis of equality as it functions in everyday social thinking...