Fortune Through Labour
“Tu fortunam laboribus indages”, what a Tuscan city can teach us about the cultural roots of capitalism and the challenges they face today. By…
Freedom Upsets Patterns: The Deregulation Argument Westminster Will Not Have
The UK does not have an energy problem. It has a freedom problem. By Elias Sanchez The United Kingdom’s economic deceleration is conventionally attributed…
The Theory of the Bottom 99 Percent: The Cantillon Effect
By Mark Thornton I want to dispel the claim in the minds of the establishment media that depicts free market Austrian economists as heartless…
But this is the very point of tariffs
The point of tariffs is not to make those things made by evil Johnny Foreigner more expensive. It is to enable the domestic capitalists…
The Interesting Lies of Samuelson: How We Naively Believed the Case of Giffen Goods
By Ali Hashemifara You have probably heard of the widely believed myth that Napoleon was very short. Evidence proved after his death, however, that he had…
The Economics of Uneven Intelligence
How AI’s patchy intelligence reshapes firms, risk and entrepreneurship By Elias Sanchez The AI boom seems unstoppable, but its long-term sustainability is uncertain. AI…
How Poland Became One of Europe’s Best-Performing Economies
Written by Mohamed Moutii For much of the past decade, Europe has been weighed down by prolonged economic stagnation. Growth has slowed, productivity has stalled, and…
Massachusetts 1690: The First Western Fiat Experiment
By Joshua Mawhorter This first experiment with government-issued bills of credit presents a natural historical test case for Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), particularly its…
Emerging Markets Soar While Argentina Waits
By Alejandro A. Tagliavini The weekly commentary from BlackRock—the world’s largest asset manager and investment firm, with over $12.5 trillion in assets—published on February 9,…
How People Keep the World Economy Running
When institutions strain, behaviour adjusts. By Elias Sanchez Despite rising public debt, intensifying fiscal extraction, recurrent economic shocks, and heightened trade and policy uncertainty,…