Since 2015, American politics has been riven by deep splits over economic policy. The tilt toward free markets that began in the mid-1970s and lasted roughly until the election of Barack Obama is a ...

Robert William Fogel : an appreciation by a coauthor and colleague / Stanley L. Engerman -- Robert William Fogel : an appreciation by an adopted student / Donald N. McCloskey -- The market for ...

From the Declaration of Independence, to railroads, to the rise of conglomerates: Here are 51 seminal moments in the development of U.S. capitalism.

Economist Robert Gordon’s “special century” from 1870 to 1970 looms large in American economic history. As he argued in his 2016 book The Rise and Fall of American Growth, electricity lit homes and ...

Does Pope Leo XIV subscribe to the tenets of the economic agenda of patriotic populism? Well, it seems so, as he officially revealed his thinking behind his papal name, telling cardinals in Rome that ...

There’s a story haunting American politics. It’s a story told by right-wing populists like Donald Trump and JD Vance and left-wing populists like Bernie Sanders. The story goes something like this: ...