Kirkcaldy, a small town on Scotland’s east coast, is a nice place. But aside from a small alleyway, Adam Smith Close, the town has largely forgotten that Adam Smith lived there. The Adam Smith ...

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

The anomalies studied by behavioral economists suggest that logic is rarely the most important factor in decisions.

Easterly questions if economic development is really development unless all parties have the right and opportunity to consent ...

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

It recalls a recent opinion piece by Wall Street Journal editorial page columnist Joseph Sternberg. Titled “The Fed Quietly ...

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

Influence, leverage and quiet control surface through books that decode how money moves power, shapes systems and decides who ...

For two centuries, mainstream economics has promised that abstract models and free markets would deliver prosperity, stability and even peace. Instead, the world is living with spiraling inequality, ...

But one economic thinker, more than any other, has allowed his beliefs to pervade the corridors of power and shape the agenda ...

Last Friday, I spoke on a panel at NYU on political theorist Alyssa Battistoni’s new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the ...