1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Fritz Machlup, “Disputes, Paradoxes, and Dilemmas Concerning Economic Development” (1957) Machlup’s essay is a conceptual map of development economics at mid-century...
Emil Kauder, “Intellectual and Political Roots of the Older Austrian School” (1958) Kauder’s essay treats Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, and Wieser as a historically formed Austrian school rather than merely as contributors to mar...
Alfred Schütz, „Max Schelers Erkenntnistheorie und Ethik“ — Summary Schütz’s essay reads Scheler as Husserl’s most powerful successor and as the thinker who redirects phenomenology from logic and formal epistemology towa...
Summary: Friedrich Engel-Janosi, “Nehrus Einblicke in die Weltgeschichte” Engel-Janosi’s essay reads Jawaharlal Nehru’s Glimpses of World History as a revealing experiment in universal history written from outside the co...
Fritz Machlup’s review presents J. R. Hicks’s A Revision of Demand Theory as both a technical reconstruction and a methodological experiment: Hicks is not writing welfare economics, empirical demand analysis, or policy d...
Fritz Machlup, An Economic Review of the Patent System (1958) Machlup’s Senate study treats the patent system as a practical economic institution rather than a moral given...
Alfred Schütz’s Einige Äquivokationen im Begriff der Verantwortlichkeit is a brief single-author conceptual essay in social philosophy and phenomenological sociology...
Fritz Machlup’s 1958 methodological article examines the terms “equilibrium” and “disequilibrium” across economic theory, with a long application to international trade and the balance of payments...
Liberty and Property — Summary Liberty and Property is a lecture-essay in which Ludwig von Mises links the modern meaning of freedom to private ownership and the market economy...
This file is a single-author 1958 scholarly review essay: Ludwig M. Lachmann’s critical appraisal of Joan Robinson’s The Accumulation of Capital...
Österreich und der Vatikan 1846–1918, Erster Band — Summary Jánosi’s first volume presents Austro-Vatican relations as a history of constrained Catholic partnership...
William E. Rappard’s preface presents Waging Peace as a postwar inquiry into Switzerland’s distinctive political achievement. He introduces William B. Lloyd, Jr...