Category
Economic history and conditions
John Maynard Keynes
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
As part of the British delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference after WW1 Keynes had detailed knowledge of the debates about reparations which were demanded of Germany. He believed the demands on defeated Germany were too harsh and he resigned his government position and wrote this book explaining his reasons.
Open the reader →Thomas Hodgskin
A Lecture on Free Trade, in connexion with the Corn Laws
An example of one of Hodgskin’s popular lectures to a working class audience, this time on the benefits of free trade.
Open the reader →Gerald P. O’Driscoll
Economics as a Coordination Problem: The Contributions of Friedrich A. Hayek
A full-length assessment of the contributions to economics of Friedrich Hayek (Nobel Prize 1974). Hayek is unique for a number of reasons: because of his emphasis on the function of institutions in coordinating the various plans of individuals in the market; his attack on the expansionary policies of central banks which discoordinate the patterns of business investment and produce depressions; and his view about the possibility of rational economic calculation under socialism.
Open the reader →Robert Franklin Hoxie
“Trade Unionism in the United States: General Character and Types”
A pioneering article on trade unions which was pubished in one of the leading professional economics journals in the early 20th century.
Open the reader →Friedrich August von Hayek
“Richard Cantillon”
Such was Hayek’s interest in the writings of Richard Cantillon, whom he believed had had a number of "Austrian insights", that he introduced the German translation which appeared in 1931. This is a translation of that introduction by Hayek.
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