1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Oskar Morgenstern, “When Is a Problem of Economic Policy Solvable?” (1953) This file is a single-author methodological essay in economic theory and policy analysis...
Alfred Schütz, “Begriffs- und Theoriebildung in den Sozialwissenschaften” (1954) This file is a single methodological lecture/essay...
F. A. Hayek, “History and Politics” (1954) — Summary Hayek presents “History and Politics” as an introduction to a wider inquiry into capitalism, industrialization, and the political power of economic history...
Friedrich August von Hayek, “Marktwirtschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik” (1954) Hayek’s revised Cologne lecture offers a programmatic statement of liberal economic policy within the setting of the German debate on the Sozial...
G. L. S. Shackle, “‘Expectation in Economics’: Some Critics Answered” This short note, first published in 1949, is Shackle’s reply to critics of Expectation in Economics...
Summary — George L. S. Shackle, “A Chart of Economic Theory” Shackle’s essay offers a compact map of economic theory after Keynes, organizing inherited doctrines by the kind of time, knowledge, and adjustment each assume...
Short theoretical article: Shackle’s “A Non-Additive Measure of Uncertainty” This short theoretical journal article clarifies a central feature of Shackle’s Expectation in Economics: uncertainty cannot be represented by...
George L. S. Shackle, “Economics and Sincerity” (1953) This file is a single-author methodological essay. Shackle asks what it means for an economist to believe a theory, and whether ethical practice requires using only...
Hans F. Sennholz’s How Can Europe Survive? is a single-author Austrian political-economic pamphlet about the ideological foundations of postwar Europe’s crisis...
G. L. S. Shackle, “Interest-Rates and the Pace of Investment” (1946/1955) Shackle’s essay asks why a familiar theory of investment seemed to conflict with business testimony gathered by the Oxford Economists’ Research Gr...
Shackle, “Myrdal’s Analysis of Monetary Equilibrium” Shackle’s essay is a selective theoretical reconstruction of Gunnar Myrdal’s Monetary Equilibrium, framed as a claim about its place in interwar monetary theory rather...
This file is a single-author theoretical article in economics. Shackle’s essay attacks the assumption that economic choice can be modeled as choice among known satisfactions...