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- an updated version of Ludwig von
Mises, Liberalismus (1927). Also eBooks added to the collection.
- eBook versions of Immanuel Kant, Zum ewigen Frieden; Ein philosophischer Entwurf
(Towards Perpetual Peace: A Philsophical Sketch) (1795): in standard HTML and various eBook
formats in HTML, PDF, and ePub and the
zipped collection
- the complete 8 volumes of Franz Oppenheimer's massive System der Soziologie (4,500 pp,)
which were published between 1922-1935. These are only in large facs. PDF except for vol. 2
"Der Staat" which is also in HTML:
- Bd. 1. Allgemeine Soziologie (1922-23)
- Grundlegung [facs.
PDF 40 MB]
- Der soziale Prozess [facs.
PDF MB]
- Bd. 2. Der Staat (1926) [standard HTML and facs.
PDF 139 MB] and also as eBooks: HTML, PDF, and ePub, and
the zipped collection). This large 800+
page works consists of the following parts:
- Vorwort (pp. vii-x);
- Erster Abschnitt: Begriff und Methode (pp. 1-23);
- 2. Ab.: Die Klassenordnung (pp. 24-307);
- 3. Ab. Der primitive Eroberungsstaat (pp. 308-366);
- 4. Ab.: Der Seestaat (pp. 367-505);
- 5. Ab.: Der Landstaat (pp. 506-644);
- 6. Ab.: Der moderne Verfassungsstaat (pp. 645-725);
- 7. Ab.: Die klassenlose Gesellschaft (pp. 726-811)
- Bd. 3. Theorie der reinen und politischen ökonomie (1923-24)
- Grundlegung [facs.
PDF 85 MB]
- Die Gesellschafts-wirtschaft [facs.
PDF 132 MB]
- several of the first generation of Austrian economists were also interested in the relationship
between voluntary market arrangements and "power" or coercion (Macht, Zwang). One of
these was Friedrich von Wieser
(1851-1926) who, in addition to his purely "economic" writings, also wrote several
works on "power"
- there is a collection of six "lectures" Recht und Macht. Sechs Vorträge
(1910) - facs.
PDF only
- a German sociologist much admired by Alfred J. Nock and Murray Rothbard was Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) whose
book on "De Staat" (The State) is an important one. He published it in a short and a
long version ovber a 20 year period.
- the first, short version (175 pp.), or what he called "meine kleine Skizze" (my
short sketch) was published in 1907: Franz Oppenheimer, Der Staat (1907) - the
standard HTML
and facs. PDF
; and eBook fomats - HTML - PDF - ePub (and the
zipped collection)
- this was translated into English: Franz Oppenheimer, The State: Its History and
Development viewed Sociologically (1914, 1922): the standard HTML and facs.
PDF
- the much longer version (859 pp.) appeared in 1926 as volume 2 of his 4 volume System
der soziologie (System of Sociology) (1922-1935): facs.
PDF [139 MB]
- an interesting discussion by one of the founders of the Austrian school of economics on the
relationship between political power (Gewalt) and economic laws: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, “Macht
oder Ökonomisches Gesetz?”, Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft, Sozialpolitik und Verwaltung
(1914) [HTML and
facs.
PDF]; along with an English translation [HTML]
- 100 years ago Ludwig von Mises
(1881-1973) demolished the very foundations upon which socialism rested. In 1920 he wrote an
essay on the difficulties (or indeed impossibility) of rational "Economic Calculation"
in a socialist economy [English
and German]
and in 1922 a large book on Socialism in which he broadened his critique of socialism
into the most devastating one ever written. We are putting the later online (or rather the 2nd.
edition of 1932) in German in HTML and
facs. PDF
- By the mid-1920s Mises had expanded his critique of Bolshevik central planning into a more
general theory of "Interventionismus" or "interventionism" by which he meant
any large-scale government intervention in the economy without the direct ownership by the state
of all private property and the means of production (such as factories and farms). He began with
an article on “Interventionismus” (1926) [HTML auf deutsch]
which he expanded and developed over the years in a series of further articles and books. He had
in mind (in chronological order) the policy of "Kriegssozialismus" (war socialism)
pursued in Germany during WW1, the policy of economic "autarchy" (national
self-sufficiency) pursued by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s, and the policies of most western
nations after WW2, namely Keynesian inspired interventionism concerning interest rates and the
supply of money, as well as the interventionism and redistribution of wealth required to build the
welfare state.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt, Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit
des Staats zu bestimmen (1792, 1851)in HTML and facs.
PDF. English trans. The Sphere and Duties of Government (1854) in HTML and
facs. PDF.
- another "provocative pairing", this time of visions of a socialist future: by a true
believer the American socialist Edward Bellamy in Looking Backward. 2000-1887 (1888) [HTML] and a German classical liberal critic Eugen
Richter in Pictures of the Socialistic Future (1891/1893) in German [facs.
PDF and HTML] and
English [facs.
PDF and HTML]
- The German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) left his great work on Economics and
Society unfinished at his death: Grundriss der Sozialökonomik: Wirtschaft und
Gesellschaft (1922) in HTML and facs. PDF.
- Richard Ebeling [Mises
Institute] reminds us that 2021 is the 150th anniversary of the publication by Carl Menger
of one of the foundational works of the Austrian school of economics, Grundsätze der
Volkswirtschaftsliche (1871). Here is our collection of his works (all in
German): 3 major works and 3 important articles (only auf deutsch for copyright reasons):
- "A
Parallel Edition of Ludwig von Mises on Economic Calculation under Socialism (1920)"
with versions of the article in German (facs. PDF and HTML), the Adler English translation, and
his expansion of his argument into the book Die Gemeinwirtschaft (Socialism) (1922) also
in German and
English.
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