1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Hayek’s note is a historiographical recovery of a doctrine he thinks had been repeatedly discovered under different labels...
Summary of J. A. Schumpeter, Business Cycles, Vol. II Volume II functions as the empirical and statistical continuation of Schumpeter’s theory of capitalist evolution...
This file is a single political-economic essay. Hayek asks what economic order a federation of formerly sovereign states requires...
Freedom and the Economic System — Friedrich A. von Hayek Hayek’s 1939 pamphlet, framed by Gideonse as an inquiry into “where the danger to liberty lies,” argues that comprehensive economic planning threatens the freedoms...
F. A. Hayek, “Introduction” to Henry Thornton’s Paper Credit of Great Britain Hayek’s introduction is an act of recovery: it relocates Henry Thornton from the margins of economic memory to the beginning of modern monetar...
Richard Thurnwald, Koloniale Gestaltung (1939) Richard Thurnwald’s Koloniale Gestaltung is a programmatic colonial-policy monograph on the “methods and problems” of overseas expansion...
Fritz Machlup, “Period Analysis and Multiplier Theory” (1939) Machlup’s essay is a theoretical intervention into Keynes-Kahn multiplier analysis, written to show that the multiplier cannot be treated as a timeless relati...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Price Expectations, Monetary Disturbances and Malinvestments” The file is a single theoretical lecture-essay...
Profits, Interest and Investment — Summary This file is a single-author theoretical economics essay, divided into an introduction and two parts, in which Hayek revises his trade-cycle theory under more realistic assumpti...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Saving” (1939) Hayek’s encyclopedic article treats “saving” not as a single moral habit or accounting residual, but as a family of distinct economic acts whose confusion has misled theories of capita...
William E. Rappard, The Crisis of Democracy (1938) Rappard’s 1938 Harris lectures diagnose democracy just as Bolshevism, Fascism, Nazism, and the League’s impotence had broken the nineteenth-century belief in democratic...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Maintenance of Capital” (1939) Hayek’s essay examines why the apparently simple idea of keeping capital “constant” becomes problematic once economic change is admitted...