1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Friedrich Engel-Janosi, Die Friedensaktion der Frau Hofrat Szeps-Zuckerkandl im Frühjahr 1917 — Summary Engel-Janosi’s 1966 essay reconstructs Berta Szeps-Zuckerkandl’s peace feelers of spring 1917 as a small but reveali...
Lachmann — Die geistesgeschichtliche Bedeutung der österreichischen Schule Lachmann’s 1966 essay redefines the Austrian school’s place in the history of economic thought...
Jacques Rueff, Le lancinant problème de la balance des paiements Rueff’s book reverses the premise of the 1965 monetary debate: the United States deficit is not a problem to be solved before reforming the international m...
Gottfried Haberler, Marxian Economics in Retrospect and Prospect (1966) Haberler’s essay is a Cold War retrospective that narrows Marx’s immense historical presence to an economic doctrine open to technical judgment...
Lachmann’s 1966 essay is a methodological defense of the market economy as a process of meaningful action, not a closed system of formal relations...
Lachmann’s “Sir John Hicks on Capital and Growth” is formally a review of Hicks’s Capital and Growth, but it develops into a critique of equilibrium growth theory...
Oskar Morgenstern, “The Compressibility of Economic Systems and the Problem of Economic Constants” (1966) Morgenstern’s essay gives economics a vocabulary for systems that are neither perfectly integrated wholes nor loos...
Hans F. Sennholz, “The Economy and the Great Society Boom” (1966) This 1966 American Opinion essay is a topical monetary polemic on the Johnson administration’s “Great Society” economy...
Fritz Machlup, “The Need for Monetary Reserves” (1966) Machlup’s article is a conceptual and empirical critique of the language of “reserve needs” in the Bretton Woods system...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Why Be Libertarian?” — Summary This file is a short polemical essay. Its scope is the motivational foundation of libertarian politics: Rothbard asks what can sustain a costly, lifelong alienation fro...
Alexander Mahr, “Bemerkungen zur Begriffsbildung in der Kapital- und Zinstheorie” (1967) This file is a single theoretical essay...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Boom, Bang!” (1967) Hans F. Sennholz’s 1967 essay is a warning that the apparent return of prosperity is not recovery but an inflationary boom...