The proposition is about as outlandish as it sounds: Everything we know about modern economics is wrong. And the man who says he can prove it doesn’t have a degree in economics. But Ole Peters is no ...

I read “Searching for Capitalism in the Wreckage of Globalization” with more frustration than surprise. Oren Cass’s argument consists, roughly speaking, of two parts. The substance of both parts ...

The worldwide financial crisis in 2008, which led to what many in the United States now call the "Great Recession," has caused researchers to rethink traditional economic theories of financial markets ...

National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade was a reasonable title for a book in the 1940s. Today’s version would need ...

The story of how the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock abandoned the common labor system and embraced private ownership is well known ...

Congress has authorized $6 trillion in deficit spending to defeat the coronavirus. That’s more than the United States spent fighting World War II, when $4 trillion of government spending released the ...

The contemporary debate over the future of natural resources features two competing theories of economics. The view that dominates all economic policy and theory today is rooted in the work of Adam ...

President Biden’s plan to flood Americans with nearly $2 trillion in coronavirus aid could come to a House vote early next week. Odds are decent it will also pass in the Senate. Nearly $2 trillion.

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Once upon a time, not that long ago actually, the federal deficit and national debt mattered. In 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “We’re just taking out a credit card from the Bank ...

Within the disciplines of economics, management, finance and law, the study of entrepreneurship has become increasingly popular and is quickly becoming one of the most rapidly growing sub-disciplines.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joseph J. Thorndike writes about tax history. Modern monetary theory (MMT) has gone mainstream — sort of. Long regarded with ...