Which Economists Should Have Gotten Nobels Before They Died?
A colleague lent me George Stigler’s Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist, and the book has me thinking about economists who...
A colleague lent me George Stigler’s Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist, and the book has me thinking about economists who...
“Neoliberalism” is one of those words that gets thrown around in academic circles without a precise definition, and in left-wing...
I have traveled so much over the last few months that I’m recognized at the Delta check-in counter at the...
They called them the Robber Barons: the American industrialists who fundamentally changed the American economy through their innovations in fields...
This will not surprise you: a book on monetary policy written by three George Mason University-trained economists explores the institutional...
Colleges and universities are prioritizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. This should be the moment economists have been waiting...
Daniel R. Mandell’s The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600-1870 adds to the historical literature exploring American interventionism...
Right after the famous “invisible hand” quote in The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith writes: What is the species of...
Few books are as loved and as hated as Atlas Shrugged. Exploring Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Magnum Opus is a...
In a famous passage in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith writes,...
In his excellent book The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford referred to a competitive market as a “world of truth.” The...
Reinventing Liberalism is an interesting contribution from the intellectual historian that sets out to help us understand the intellectual origins...