Scholars have long debated what sparked Europe’s economic surge in the mid-18th century. That debate took center stage recently at the University of Chicago, where an expert panel from the Harris ...

Underlying economic and market factors mattered in previous presidential rematches. They may help President Biden, even if polls aren’t showing that so far. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes ...

The history of economic thought traces the evolution of ideas about production, distribution and exchange from antiquity to the present. Its narrative begins with early reflections on wealth in ...