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Echoing a 2007 book from Nicholas Wapshott (and quoting Wapshott along the way), the latest TIME magazine features Jon Meacham‘s exploration of the political relationship between the late Ronald Reagan…
During the last academic year, Duke University hosted both a lecture by Nicholas Wapshott on his book Keynes-Hayek and a debate about the causes of the Great Depression that featured…
A task force has recommended that North Carolina pay $50,000 each to living victims of the state’s forced-sterilization program. Daren Bakst analyzes that proposal during the next edition of Carolina…
A recent Newsweek names Nicholas Wapshott’s Keynes Hayek one of “10 Books That You Might Have Missed but Shouldn’t.” As we face off against the Great Recession, the only book…
John Maynard Keynes barely outlived World War II, and F.A. Hayek died nearly 20 years ago. But the contrasting economic philosophies they espoused during their lifetimes continue to help differentiate…
You might remember a recent Duke University speech in which journalist and author Nicholas Wapshott suggested that the next American presidential election could be described as a “Keynes-Hayek election,” in…
If you think the debates between John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek would interest no one but economists, author Nicholas Wapshott offers a different perspective. In this snippet from his…
You’ve seen the movie. (Actually, it’s a pair of rap videos.) Now you can read the book. Nicholas Wapshott’s latest effort documents “the clash that defined modern economics.” That’s the…
As our U.S. economy teeters and the debate continues about which policy approaches will lead to private-sector job creation, this week’s lecture at Duke University sounds very instructive. Special…
Pundits still consider Britain?s Conservative Party the most likely winners in next month?s general election. The following quote from a TIME profile of Tory leader David Cameron suggests that outcome…
The most interesting sections of Nicholas Wapshott’s joint biography of two of the 20th century’s greatest leaders, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage (Sentinel, 2007), involve transcripts of…