Life Magazine on USSR in 1943
They live under a system of tight state-controlled information. But probably the attitude to take toward this is not to...
Economic History
Thoughts on the neoliberal wave
There have been some recent retrospectives on the neoliberal wave that swept the world in the final quarter of the...
Wednesday, Black and White
At 7.40pm on the evening of Wednesday, September 16, 1992, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, gave a televised...
The Industrial Revolution: Who Planned It?
Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum . Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest...
Work Hard and Read Hoffer
Eric Hoffer was born 120 years today. Or 124: as Tom Bethell argued in his biography of Hoffer, the latter’s...
Woody Holton’s Not So Hidden History
Woody Holton, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, has written a nearly 800-page tome entitled Liberty is...
Back to gold?
People occasionally ask me whether it would make sense to go back to the gold standard. Most economists think that...
Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich
Editor’s note: Subscribers to our No Due Date book club have been enjoying Deirdre McCloskey and Art Carden’s Leave Me Alone...
Do you remember 1973?
I do. I remember the rate of inflation rising dramatically. I recall people offering these explanations:1. A Soviet crop failure...
Enclosing Wordle
with Lynne Kiesling One of the few things that has made this particular bleak midwinter bearable has been the sudden...
