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Voices of China | “History As It Happens”
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Hayek
Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek—economist, social
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Having Fun with History | Discourse
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Fixing Our Economic Woes is as Easy as Looking to the Past | Reason
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How the World Became Rich | New Books Network
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Frank Knight, James Buchanan, and Virginia Political Economy
I have been asked to explore how James Buchanan’s work on public finance and constitutional political economy might have emerged
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Milton Friedman Is More Relevant Than Ever | Bloomberg Opinion
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The golden age of mercenaries
Between the mid-thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries, Italian city-states abandoned citizen militaries for militaries composed
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The Use and Abuse of History
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Rediscovering the Promise of the American Founding
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Counterfactuals, Empires, and Institutions
This essay reviews Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel. It examines the
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The Institutional Foundations of Religious Freedom
How did religious freedom emerge? I address this question by building on the framework of Johnson and Koyama’s Persecution &
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Ideas of India: On Ambedkarism, Caste and Dalit Capitalism
Shruti Rajagopalan talks with Chandra Bhan Prasad about the history and future of the Dalit population in India. Read the
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Biden’s Choice: Reform or Recovery?
Putting reform before recovery is like putting the cart before the horse. Read more at Twin Cities.
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Medieval Cities through the Lens of Urban Economic Theory
We draw on theories and empirical findings from urban economics to explore and explain patterns of city growth in the Middle
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Ideas of India: Constitutional Democracy
Ideas of India is a new podcast in which Mercatus Senior Research Fellow Shruti Rajagopalan examines the academic ideas that can
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The Great Enrichment
The Great Recession of 2008, and now the Greater Recession, might distract you from the vastly bigger story of our times: the
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The Great Enrichment
As we try to restart the economy, it is important to remember the source of our prosperity. Read more at Discourse.