American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Michael Strain challenges populist concerns about the American dream. What do former President Trump and Bernie Sanders have in common? Or Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Nobel Prize-winning Clinton administration…
Editors at Issues and Insights explain how China’s leader has ruined his country’s pursuit of economic dominance. With Xi Jinping’s stunning shift back into Maoist totalitarianism, China is destined to…
Here's how media are often lazy in failing to recognize cronyism: they'll suspend their suspicion of big business getting cozy with government when that coziness coincides with their own political…
Bryan Caplan explains in an Atlantic essay why he’s no fan of the idea of sending as many young adults as possible to college. Thanks to tenure, I have a…
A blurb in the latest print edition of Bloomberg Businessweek merits some attention. There’s a long-running debate over what matters more — formal learning or learning on the job. On…
George Mason University economist Donald Boudreaux offers Barron’s readers a less-than-glowing review of Thomas Piketty’s book on capital and income inequality. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century might soon…
Gene Epstein of Barron’s devotes his latest column to explaining why the government-mandated minimum wage fails to live up to its promise of helping the poor. The debate over raising…
A day after Roy Cordato explained why North Carolina should shed its “hidden, deceptive, dishonest” corporate income tax, Walter Williams’ latest column explores a similar theme: What about raising taxes…
One of the statists? favorite economists, Joseph Stiglitz, offers his prescription for the ailing economy in the latest issue of Money magazine. The article is not yet posted online, but…
One of the economics profession?s foremost statists, Joseph Stiglitz, complains in a new book that President Obama hasn?t done enough to trash capitalism. At least that?s the sense you?ll get…