For a year-end read, try Harvard historian Sven Beckert's new book, ‘Capitalism: A Global History.’ It traces the global ...

Beckert's book, a sweeping 1,300-page history, synthesizes bits and pieces of the academic literature to recount the ...

The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account ...

As a historical corollary, the Industrial Revolution helped lay the foundation for the modern stock market, merchant banking, the welfare state and antitrust law. As many of The Digitalist Papers’ ...

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This cursory missive is prompted by the painfully comical sight of our Deputy Minister of Tourism performing something ...

Discover how Jean-Baptiste Say coined 'entrepreneur' in the 1800s. Learn about its meaning, economic significance, and how ...

One can be a tad more optimistic today about the revival of Nehruvian economics without the public-sector albatross.

The big problem with information today is not noise, but silence. The latter is the most eloquent part of a lecture. Yet, one never asks about the kind of viole ...

Adam Smith, a challenger to U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards in the Republican primary for House District 11, has officially filed his candidacy papers, he announced in a Dec. 3 news release. “We’re starting ...

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Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said Sunday it is “pretty clear” that the Trump administration does not want to release video of a second strike on an alleged drug boat in September. “It’s no different than ...