President Donald Trump’s administration reflects this division. Its economic team includes representatives from the more ...

Rent controls can help to make housing more affordable in cities like New York. But they must be part of a broader solution ...

Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

Government. The Big G. We like to imagine the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But Nobel laureate, Simon Johnson, says that influence has been there ...

The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the ...

The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the ...

This paper is about the effectiveness of qualitative easing, a form of unconventional monetary policy that changes the risk composition of the central bank balance sheet with the goal of stabilizing ...

Modern historians depend heavily upon sweeping narratives and their take on the US War of Secession is no exception. Yet, the ...

In addition to his major theoretical works, von Mises also wrote several papers recommending solutions during moments of ...

The writer, Karen Dynan, suggested nearly a dozen ways in which they could do this. But in summary, “There are four ways to ...

The US dollar’s journey to becoming the world’s primary reserve currency is a story of economic power, international agreements, and historical ...