Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
Mark Pulliam writes for the Martin Center about the negative impact of the pursuit of “social justice” at one major public university. The latest racket in higher education, evident at…
Congratulations to JLF Senior Fellow Garland Tucker, whose analysis of our $20 trillion+ debt load has been published by Investor’s Business Daily at investors.com. He reminds us of the fiscal…
Over the years I’ve written several articles about the differences between economic growth and economic development. I have pointed out that, in terms of practical policy, emphasis on one or the…
Scott Powell uses an American Thinker column to apply the anti-totalitarian writing of George Orwell to today’s conditions. Orwell’s warnings about totalitarianism written in novel form in Animal Farm and…
Bloomberg reports that: Former BB&T Corp. Chief Executive Officer John Allison is a late entrant on a short-list for the job of U.S. Treasury secretary, according to two people familiar…
That’s the title of a recent blog post by Matt Ridley in which he discusses the distressing rise of protectionism. Here’s an excerpt: Last week both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump set out…
Time to Dump Economic Development Policy
George Leef writes at the website of the Foundation for Economic Education about the latest screed from Jane Mayer. Jane Mayer is a writer for the New Yorker who knows…
“The fact is that almost everywhere the groups which pretend to oppose socialism at the same time support policies which, if the principles on which they are based were generalized, would…
… he might not have asked some of the questions posed in his last State of the Union address. At least that’s the gist of an Iain Murray column posted…
Patrick Hedger writes for the Federalist that left-of-center policy ideas often deny basic principles of economic science. Several major economic policy positions of the Obama administration fly in the face…
Willis Krumholz contributes a Federalist website essay that should concern Chinese economic cheerleaders. China is on the road to its own Great Depression. The causes of our Great Depression are…