1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Fritz Machlup, “Structure and Structural Change: Weaselwords and Jargon” (1958) Machlup’s essay is a methodological critique of the economic vocabulary of “structure,” “structural,” and “structural change.” He does not a...
Hans Sennholz, The Federal Reserve System Sennholz’s essay argues from a libertarian perspective that central banking gives political authorities command over money through institutions presented as monetary technique...
This file is a single-author theoretical essay, originally contributed to a volume honoring Fredrik Zeuthen. Machlup’s scope is deliberately precise: he defines innovation as the first productive application of a new ide...
Hans Bayer, Wirtschaftsgestaltung (1958) Hans Bayer’s Wirtschaftsgestaltung is a theoretical monograph in political economy that joins empirical diagnosis, doctrine history, systematic analysis, and institutional prescri...
Alfred Amonn, Wirtschaftspolitik auf Irrwegen (1958) Amonn’s essay argues that economic policy loses its way when it treats the market order as an instrument for political wishes that contradict its own conditions of ope...
Alfred Schütz, “Husserls Bedeutung für die Sozialwissenschaften” (1959) This file is a single scholarly essay: Schütz’s compact assessment of what Husserl can and cannot contribute to the foundations of the social scienc...
Eric Voegelin, „John Stuart Mill — Diskussionsfreiheit und Diskussionsbereitschaft“ (1959) This file is a single four-part philosophical-political essay...
Hayek, "Political Liberalism" (1959) Hayek's article is a work of conceptual and historical distinction: for him, political liberalism does not mean progress, democracy, or popular sovereignty in general, but the Anglo-D...
Professor Shackle on the Economic Significance of Time — Summary Ludwig M. Lachmann’s 1959 essay reviews G. L. S. Shackle’s Time in Economics as a major contribution to subjectivist methodology...
Fritz Machlup, “Statics and Dynamics: Kaleidoscopic Words” (1959) This is a single-author methodological essay in economic semantics...
Morgenstern, “The Question of National Defense” (1960) Morgenstern’s essay treats national defense as a strategic problem whose conditions have been transformed by nuclear weapons, delivery systems, and the speed of tech...
Alfred Schütz, “Tiresias, or Our Knowledge of Future Events” (1959) Schütz begins with Tiresias as a limiting fiction for a phenomenology of anticipation. The seer knows “things to come” while blind to the present...