The current debate in economics seems to lack a historical perspective. To try to address this deficiency, we decided to launch a Sunday column on ProMarket focusing on the historical dimension of economic ideas.
The historical origins of financial crises teaches us about changing attitudes toward government intervention into private markets.
A lesson frequently taught by twentieth century economists...
A new data collection has made it possible to reveal the self-sovereignty of the English East India Trading Company that produced a company-state and...
A memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner to the Reagan administration was recently unearthed. To understand the meaning behind the memo, as well...
With major antitrust reform in the air, Brian Cheffins explores how and why a now highly controversial antitrust consensus that emerged under Ronald Reagan...