For six days and counting, an unlikely book has sat atop the Amazon bestseller list, beating out Swedish crime thrillers and novels featuring sparkly vampires.
Back in 1965, it was Milton Friedman’s phrase: “We are all Keynesians now.” He uttered it in the same spirit as Richard Nixon repeated it
While most recent media coverage of the financial crisis focuses on the economic downturn’s impact on the middle class, in an article which ran last
Last seen rapping about free-markets, F. A. Hayek is enjoying a popularity resurgence. Not only has his hip hop video been viewed three-quarters of a
As a recent post on Amazon’s book blog Omnivoracious points out, the volatile economic climate we’ve been living through the past few years makes it
The economist and philosopher F. A. Hayek, best known for his staunch defense of free-market capitalism, may have passed away nearly two decades ago, but
Allan Meltzer author of the definitive History of the Federal Reserve recently made an appearance on C-SPAN to discuss Federal Reserve policy before and after
As Patricia Cohen recently wrote in the New York Times reviewing two new books on higher education, “champions of the market can turn up in
Gary Becker and Richard Posner have been offering up some of the most insightful social and political commentary on the internet through The Becker-Posner blog
Before Freakonomics there was the Becker-Posner blog. Started in 2004 by Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A.