1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Richard von Strigl, Capital & Production Strigl’s central aim is to rebuild capital theory as a theory of the whole production structure...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Competition and the Market Process: Some Doctrinal Milestones” This file is a single-author scholarly chapter in an edited volume...
Coordination as a Criterion for Economic “Goodness” — Summary Kirzner’s essay reconstructs welfare judgment for Austrian, subjectivist economics...
Israel M. Kirzner, “Creativity and/or Alertness” — Summary Kirzner’s chapter revisits a long-standing contrast within entrepreneurship theory: Schumpeter’s entrepreneur as creative destroyer and Kirzner’s entrepreneur as...
Murray N. Rothbard’s Das Schein-Geld-System, the German translation of What Has Government Done to Our Money?, is a compact Austrian-libertarian theory and history of money...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Globalization Under Fire” — Summary Hans F. Sennholz’s “Globalization Under Fire” is a polemical essay in political economy that defends globalization as peaceful exchange made possible by falling trad...
This file is a single-author scholarly chapter/article in Hayek studies and Austrian economics. Kirzner asks whether Hayek’s wide-ranging work is governed by one “big thing”: plan-coordination under dispersed knowledge...
Israel M. Kirzner, How Markets Work (1997) Kirzner’s thesis is that market coordination cannot be explained by neoclassical equilibrium theory...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Ill-Designed for Soft Landing” (2000) This file is a short single-author economic essay. Written in July 2000, it is an Austrian-style diagnosis of the late-1990s U.S...
Hans F. Sennholz, “Japanese Malaise” (2000) Sennholz’s essay interprets Japan’s postwar rise, 1980s asset boom, and 1990s stagnation as a warning about interventionist credit policy...
Ludwig von Mises and the Paradigm for Our Age — Summary Rothbard’s essay is a methodological and political defense of Ludwig von Mises as the economist whose system can replace the dominant positivist paradigm...
This source is best read as a multi-contributor volume on Mises’s understanding of capitalism rather than as a single Kirzner essay...