Economic History
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Wealth Inequality: It’s Complicated
In the debates over wealth inequality that have followed the publication of The Triumph of Injustice (authored by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman), there have been intense discussions of the methodological choices made in the book. There have been few considerations regarding the underlying assumptions regarding the sources of inequality. All inequalities are bundled as…
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The Rise of Edinburgh, Financial Empire
The city of money no longer includes the best, the largest, or the most innovative banks, but finance still runs deep in Edinburgh’s blood.
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The State Is a Greasy-Hand Tourist
If you’ve ever been scuba diving or snorkeling, you probably know that swimmers aren’t supposed to touch the coral with their bare hands.
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Watch Mises vs. Marx: The March of History
Extremely pleased to announce the release of “The March of History,” a musical a project of the American Institute for Economic Research three years in the making.
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Markets Saved the Whales in the 19th Century
The story of Moby Dick warns us of the unforeseen consequences of government intervention and point to the potency of market forces in terms of protecting the environment.
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The 1619 Project Resurrects King-Cotton Ideology of the Old South
Participants of the 1619 Project evince little awareness of the deep historical deficiencies in Baptist’s work or of similar problems among the other “New Economic History scholars on whom they rest their case.
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Is Capitalism an Artificial Imposition on Human Affairs?
Once freed from the mischaracterizations of economic theory that the new historians of capitalism have imported from Karl Polanyi, it is easy to see the foolishness of their endeavors.
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The Secret History of the Monopolization of Welfare by the State
Many intellectuals called for an end to private charity and its replacement with a full government system, not due to the paucity of private benevolence, but rather due to what they considered its excessive generosity.
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Slavery Did Not Make America Richer
A close and careful look at the empirical record reveals that one cannot infer that America was made richer from slavery. It is even clear that America was made poorer by slavery.
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How Capitalist-Abolitionists Fought Slavery
A capitalist benefactor of the American abolitionist movement used his business to wage war against slavery. He ended up revolutionizing the American financial industry in the process.
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Wealth Inequality: It’s Complicated
In the debates over wealth inequality that have followed the publication of The Triumph of Injustice (authored by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman), there have been intense discussions of the methodological choices made in the book. There have been few considerations regarding the underlying assumptions regarding the sources of inequality. All inequalities are bundled as…
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The Rise of Edinburgh, Financial Empire
The city of money no longer includes the best, the largest, or the most innovative banks, but finance still runs deep in Edinburgh’s blood.
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•
The State Is a Greasy-Hand Tourist
If you’ve ever been scuba diving or snorkeling, you probably know that swimmers aren’t supposed to touch the coral with their bare hands.
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•
Watch Mises vs. Marx: The March of History
Extremely pleased to announce the release of “The March of History,” a musical a project of the American Institute for Economic Research three years in the making.
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•
Markets Saved the Whales in the 19th Century
The story of Moby Dick warns us of the unforeseen consequences of government intervention and point to the potency of market forces in terms of protecting the environment.
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•
The 1619 Project Resurrects King-Cotton Ideology of the Old South
Participants of the 1619 Project evince little awareness of the deep historical deficiencies in Baptist’s work or of similar problems among the other “New Economic History scholars on whom they rest their case.
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•
Is Capitalism an Artificial Imposition on Human Affairs?
Once freed from the mischaracterizations of economic theory that the new historians of capitalism have imported from Karl Polanyi, it is easy to see the foolishness of their endeavors.
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•
The Secret History of the Monopolization of Welfare by the State
Many intellectuals called for an end to private charity and its replacement with a full government system, not due to the paucity of private benevolence, but rather due to what they considered its excessive generosity.
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•
Slavery Did Not Make America Richer
A close and careful look at the empirical record reveals that one cannot infer that America was made richer from slavery. It is even clear that America was made poorer by slavery.
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How Capitalist-Abolitionists Fought Slavery
A capitalist benefactor of the American abolitionist movement used his business to wage war against slavery. He ended up revolutionizing the American financial industry in the process.