The political theorist Anthony de Jasay takes on the left‘s ideas of equality, and David Gordon is there to agree—and disagree. Jasay likens the left‘s view of ...

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the major developments in monetary theory and policy from David Hume and Adam Smith to Walter Bagehot and Knut Wicksell. In particular, it seeks to explain ...

During the Enlightenment, Mandeville’s model was inherited by seminal thinkers in empiricism, economics and sociology, including David Hume, Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson. Given this intellectual ...

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Of Money (1752) as quoted in David Hume: Writings on Economics (1955, 1970) ed., Eugene Rotwein, p. 45. As to the Approbation or Esteem of those Blockheads who call themselves the Public, & whom a ...

Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Elena Kagan ’81, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the ...

Mainstream economists often base their analysis upon assumptions that do not square with reality. Austrian economics, on the ...

Stocks in the US and Canada have rallied this year, but Canadian shares appear better positioned for gains in the long run, according to economist David Rosenberg. "Time to leave New York and come ...

The US in brief’s team of editors will be giving The Economist’s fastest analysis of the results, as they come in, on Tuesday November 5th. You can find that on our app and home page on ...

The ‘world’s most accurate economist,’ Christophe Barraud, who is the chief economist and strategist at Market Securities Monaco, predicts a Donald Trump victory for the 2024 Presidential ...

NOT LONG ago, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was thought to affect only school-aged boys—the naughty ones who could not sit still in class and were always getting into trouble ...