1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Hayek’s “The Transmission of the Ideals of Economic Freedom” is a short occasional essay in intellectual history. Written originally in 1951 as a tribute to Ludwig von Mises and later corrected for reprinting, it sketche...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Uses of ‘Gresham’s Law’ as an Illustration of ‘Historical Theory’” — Summary This file is a short single-author theoretical essay, later printed as a chapter, in which Hayek uses Gresham’s Law to...
This single-author policy essay uses Walter Reuther’s 1958 United Automobile Workers demands as a test case for Hayek’s larger claim: union power, when supported by legal privilege and accommodated by full-employment mon...
Hayek, “What is ‘Social’?—What Does it Mean?” This file contains a single conceptual-political essay: a revised English translation of Hayek’s 1957 German article. Its scope is narrow but ambitious...
Alexander Mahr, „Wirtschaftliches und ethisches Verhalten“ The file is a single theoretical essay by Alexander Mahr. Its scope is conceptual and methodological: it asks whether “economic” conduct is inherently at odds wi...
Alexander Mahr, “Zur Lehre von den Kollektivbedürfnissen” Mahr’s article is a conceptual intervention in public-finance theory...
Alexander Mahr, “Zur Theorie der Wechselkurse” (1927) Alexander Mahr’s article is a single-author theoretical study from the Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (1927)...
Felix Kaufmann’s Das Unendliche in der Mathematik und seine Ausschaltung is a foundational study of the role of infinity in mathematics...
Friedrich Engel-Janosi, Die diplomatische Mission Ludwig von Pastors beim Heiligen Stuhle, 1920–1928 Engel-Janosi’s 1968 Abhandlung is a monographic archival study with a documentary appendix...
Friedrich August von Hayek, Die Sprachverwirrung im politischen Denken (1968) Hayek’s 1968 text is a single-author occasional essay: a compact program of political semantics...
Hayek’s text is a short translated conference lecture rather than a systematic treatise. Its scope is deliberately compressed: from a historical sketch of social evolution it derives a political argument about law, coerc...
G. L. S. Shackle, “Policy, Poetry, and Success” (1968) Shackle’s address argues that business policy is not best understood as applied arithmetic, optimization, or probability calculus, but as an “originative art” conduc...