John Kenneth Galbraith at a forum in Amsterdam in 1982. Dutch National Archives EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay was prepared for the Free Economic Society of Russia's 50th anniversary commemoration of the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Economics has often been described as "the dismal science," but as Matthew Rousu, ...

It’s been a good year for economics books. Autopsies on the economic crisis of 2008 continued to tumble out in 2011, some of them quite compelling. But it is clearly time to look to the future, and a ...

The 2025 Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize, awarded to a young scholar for excellence in research and teaching, went to Mises Institute Fellow Dr. Kristoffer Mousten Hansen.

Economists are often accused of failing to focus enough on the real world. Greg Ip, the US economics editor of The Economist, has set out to remedy this by producing an updated version of The Little ...

A Tributary Model of State Formation: Ethiopia, 1600-2015 addresses the perplexing question of why a pedigreed Ethiopian state failed to transform itself into a nation-state. Using a ...

Milutin Todorovic was disturbed to learn that over 60 % of students choose a major or field of study that doesn’t align with their interests. The Glenbrook South High School senior decided to do ...

So Now the Left Is Against Government Extortion to Suppress Speech? Audio By Carbonatix Edward Conard’s new book is a rousing defense of conservative beliefs about how markets and incentives drive ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared on the Division of the Social Sciences website. Inequality has many causes, but sometimes it stems from a lack of incentives that foster fair outcomes. That’s ...

The problem with economics is that even the leadership of the Federal Reserve seem to get confused. Luckily, a soon-to-be-published book will help sort out the situation. It's titled "The Growth ...