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Economic History

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.

Economic History

Adam Smith on Self-Betterment and Policy Impacts

Alain Marciano
In this celebration of Adam Smith’s contributions to the field of political economy, Peter J. Boettke and Alain Marciano take a passage from The...
Antitrust and Competition

New Research Shows The Breakup of IG Farben Increased Innovation

Felix Poege
IG Farben used to be the world’s largest chemical company and a major innovator—until it was broken up in one of the largest antitrust...
Economic History

Corporate Sovereigns and the Emergence of State Sovereignty: A Closer Look at the East India Company

Swati Srivastava
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...
Antitrust and Competition

A Posner-Stigler Smoking Gun?

Herbert Hovenkamp
A memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner to the Reagan administration was recently unearthed. To understand the meaning behind the memo, as well...
Economic History

Why Jean Fourastié’s Theory of Economic Development is Still Relevant Today

David Le Bris
In 1949, the innovative French economist and policymaker Jean Fourastié introduced a theory of growth and technological development that economists could still use today,...
Antitrust and Competition

The Rise, Survival, and Potential Fall of the Reagan-Era Antitrust Consensus

Brian Cheffins
With major antitrust reform in the air, Brian Cheffins explores how and why a now highly controversial antitrust consensus that emerged under Ronald Reagan...
Economic History

How China Became a Global Economic Powerhouse Through an Idiosyncratic Approach to Market Capitalism

Isabella M. Weber
Chinese reformers after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 agreed that it was necessary for China to move towards marketization, but struggled over...
Economic History

The Communist Origins of China’s Embrace of Markets

Jason M. Kelly
In an excerpt from his book Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent, Jason M. Kelly explores the commercial relationships and selective...
Antitrust and Competition

How the Free Software and the IP Wars of the 1990s and 2000s Presaged Today’s Toxic, Concentrated Internet

Elettra Bietti
How did the internet evolve from a relatively decentralized, hybrid, and democratizing space toward a concentrated, privatized environment controlled by a handful of actors?...
Economic History

When Milton Friedman Sided With Keynes Over Hayek on Inflation

Nicholas Wapshott
In an excerpt from his book Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, Nicholas Wapshott explores the disagreements between Friedman and Hayek over...
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