1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Gustav Adolf Groß’s 1931 book is a single-author theoretical monograph: a sustained critique of Werner Sombart’s Der moderne Kapitalismus from Robert Liefmann’s “sozialindividualistische” economics...
Richard Thurnwald, “Funktionelle Soziologie” (1931) This single-author theoretical journal essay closes a symposium on the aims of sociology...
Richard Reisch, “Hahns Volkswirtschaftliche Theorie des Bankkredits” (1931) Reisch’s review of the third edition of Hahn’s Volkswirtschaftliche Theorie des Bankkredits is a compact critique of credit absolutism...
Alexander Mahr, Hauptprobleme der Arbeitslosigkeit (1931) Mahr’s 1931 study is a crisis diagnosis directed against single-cause explanations of unemployment...
Reflections on the Pure Theory of Money of Mr. J.M. Keynes — Summary Hayek’s two-part review of Keynes’s Treatise on Money is both an acknowledgment of Keynes’s stature and a sustained attack on the book’s theoretical fo...
Felix Kaufmann’s 1931 essay intervenes in the controversy over the foundations of logic and mathematics by treating it chiefly as a problem of sense...
Emil Lederer, Technischer Fortschritt und Arbeitslosigkeit (1931) Lederer’s 1931 study turns the Weimar debate over Rationalisierung into a theory of capitalist dynamics...
Felix Somary, “The American and European Economic Depressions and Their Political Consequences” (1931) This file is a published Chatham House address by Felix Somary, followed by a summarized discussion...
Joseph A. Schumpeter, “The Present World Depression: A Tentative Diagnosis” (1931) Schumpeter’s text is a short single-author diagnostic essay, reprinted from the American Economic Review Supplement in March 1931...
E. Lederer, Wege aus der Krise (1931) Lederer’s lecture interprets the Depression as a crisis of abundance without purchasing power, not as a mere shortage of goods, gold, or effort...
E. Lederer, “Wirkungen des Lohnabbaus” (1931) Lederer’s 1931 lecture attacks the Depression orthodoxy that unemployment is proof of excessive wages and can be cured by wage cuts...
Richard Thurnwald, “Analyse von „Entwicklung“ und „Zyklus“” (1932) Thurnwald’s essay is a methodological critique of two dominant ways of interpreting social history: “development” and “cycle.” He does not simply reject...