I read “Searching for Capitalism in the Wreckage of Globalization” with more frustration than surprise. Oren Cass’s argument consists, roughly speaking, of two parts. The substance of both parts ...
The human body is said, by critics of mainstream, modern economics, to have 'disappeared' from economic theory over the past century. Like subjectivity, the body is thought to have been displaced ...
The resounding victory of N.J. Governor Chris Christie has people speculating about the 2016 presidential race, particularly on the Republican side, since it's a given among pols and pundits that ...
In his latest column for the New York Times, award-winning economist and liberal pundit Paul Krugman returns to one of his recurring themes and tries to understand how the field of economics could not ...
It began on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal. “For an economist, these are the best of times and the worst of times,” wrote Russ Roberts, a professor of economics at George Mason University.
John Maynard Keynes, memorializing the death of his mentor Alfred Marshall a century ago, wrote that the “master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts…. He must be mathematician, ...
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Oct., 1982), pp. 363-373 (11 pages) Henry George's influence on economic thought has been neglected although his readers included Clark ...
With inflation at 7%, the highest rate since 1982, and the Federal Reserve set to tighten monetary policy, you would think the president and Congress would be looking for ways to end the spending ...
The Austrian school of economics is a school of economic thought that emphasizes the importance of individual human action and free markets in economic decision-making. It has its origins in late 19th ...