Reining in China’s investment boom will be hard. The Chinese authorities are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
George Mason University economist Lawrence H. White is writing a book on The Clash of Economic Ideas. Last summer he gave a lecture, published as a video by New Media, […]
In this book prolific writer Mark Skousen presents the Austrian and Chicago school of economics, explaining their main views on money, business cycles and competition.
Good introductory text to the intellectual history of economics
In this video panel on Bloomberg.com, economic historian and author The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson, discusses the financial crisis and global recession with economist and author of This Time […]
In this monograph, French economist Florin Aftalion sets out to rectify a great omission in most historical accounts of the French Revolution, namely to look at how economic, and especially […]
In this paper, John Munro of the Department of Economics, University of Toronto revisits the historical debate on the origins of the price revolution of the 16th century. Though some […]
The financial crisis and global recession has brought traditional Keynesian policies back to the fore. However, not all economists are Keynesians now.
Recent developments have clearly demonstrated that “there is no such thing as a Keynesian free lunch.” The grim story of fiscal crises afflicting major economies is something that should not be taken lightly. It could happen sooner than most people think if the governments of the US and other debt-ridden countries don’t get their fiscal…
Economists Peter Boone and Simon Johnson think the economic system could be stuck in a “doomsday cycle”: “Over the last three decades, the US financial system has tripled in size, […]