1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Hayek’s “Three Elucidations of the Ricardo Effect” is a compact defense of a specific capital-theoretic mechanism: changes in the demand for consumer goods alter the profitability of more or less capital-intensive method...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Two Types of Mind” (1978) “Two Types of Mind” is a short reflective essay, reprinted with additions from Encounter, in which Hayek turns an autobiographical contrast into an argument about scientific...
Friedrich A. Hayek, “Whither Democracy?” — Summary This is a single-author political-theory lecture: its scope is one sustained argument about the constitutional degeneration of modern democracy...
This file is a German translation of Hayek’s 1978 Ludwig-von-Mises memorial lecture “Coping with Ignorance.” It is a single lecture combining intellectual memoir, homage, and methodological argument...
Fritz Machlup, A History of Thought on Economic Integration (1979) Machlup’s book is a historical and conceptual survey of economic integration as both a term and an idea...
Alertness, Luck, and Entrepreneurial Profit — Summary This is a single-author theoretical chapter, originally presented in an American Economic Association session, on the status of pure entrepreneurial profit...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Capital, Competition, and Capitalism” (1974) Genre and scope: This file is a single-authored scholarly lecture/chapter, presented at Hillsdale College in 1974...
Israel M. Kirzner’s “Classical Economics and the Entrepreneurial Role” studies a central omission in English classical economics: its failure to make entrepreneurship an independent analytical function...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Economics and Error” (1979) This file is a single-author theoretical chapter, originally presented as a symposium paper...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Entrepreneurship, Choice, and Freedom” (1979) This file is a single scholarly essay/chapter in economics and political philosophy...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Entrepreneurship, Entitlement, and Economic Justice” (1979) Kirzner’s chapter is a focused intervention in libertarian theories of market justice...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Equilibrium versus Market Process” (1979) This file is a single theoretical essay/chapter, originally presented at the 1974 Austrian Economic Conference...