by Jaana Woiceshyn Morality poses the question: For what purpose should I live and how? Economics studies how to organize …
Economic Ideas: Karl Marx, the Man Behind the Communist Revolution
by Richard Ebeling When Karl Marx died in March 1883, only about a dozen people attended his funeral at a …
Economic Ideas: Frédéric Bastiat on the Law of Liberty and Free Markets
Summary There have been few proponents of human liberty and free markets who have been as clear, concise, and convincing …
Econ Journal Watch Audio
The voice of Econ Journal Watch The host of EJW Audio is Lawrence H. White, a co-editor of EJW and …
Bernard Mandeville and the Social Betterment from Private Vices.
by Richard Ebeling Summary One of the most important discoveries by economists and other social theorists was the insight that …
Economic Ideas: Inflation, Price Controls and Collectivism in the French Revolution
Royal France under Louis XVI placed the country under immense financial strain due to the costs of the King’s court, …
Ukraine: A Country in Crisis
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Economic Ideas: The French Physiocrats and the Case for Laissez-faire.
Executive Summary In the second half of the eighteenth century, there emerged the French Physiocrats, who challenged the assumptions of …
On progress
Markets cheered shock of Brexit expecting a return of the true progressives of classical liberalism Deepak Lal The post-traumatic stress …