1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Richard Kerschagl, Einführung in die Methodenlehre der Nationalökonomie Kerschagl’s Einführung reconstructs the conditions under which pure economics can be scientific...
Alfred Amonn, Grundzüge der theoretischen Nationalökonomie (1948) Amonn’s Grundzüge is a systematic treatise in pure theoretical economics...
Oskar Morgenstern, “Grundzüge einer neuen Theorie der Nachfrage” — Summary Morgenstern’s article is a foundational critique of ordinary demand theory...
Schütz, “Sartre’s Theory of the Alter Ego” (1948) Alfred Schütz’s essay reconstructs Sartre’s theory of intersubjectivity while arguing that its most brilliant analyses end in a practical solipsism...
Socialist Calculation I: The Nature and History of the Problem — Summary Hayek’s chapter frames the socialist calculation debate as a belated transition from moral and rhetorical controversy to analysis of institutional...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Socialist Calculation II: The State of the Debate (1935)” Hayek’s essay surveys the socialist-calculation controversy as it stood after Mises, Brutzkus, Barone, Taylor, Roper, Dickinson, and others h...
Socialist Calculation III: The Competitive “Solution” — Summary Hayek’s essay is a review-critique of the market-socialist proposals associated chiefly with Lange, Taylor, and Dickinson...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Economic Conditions of Interstate Federalism” Hayek’s essay argues that interstate federation is not merely a device for preventing war among formerly sovereign states...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Facts of the Social Sciences” (1948) Hayek’s essay is a methodological argument about the sciences of language, markets, law, and institutions, not about every inquiry into social phenomena...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Meaning of Competition” (1948) This file is a single-author economic-theory essay, originally the substance of a lecture...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Ricardo Effect” — Summary Hayek’s essay reconstructs a proposition associated with Ricardo: wages and machinery are not neutral substitutes, and changes in wages relative to product prices alter...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society” — Summary Hayek’s essay recasts economic coordination as a problem of knowledge rather than merely of calculation...