By Urvika Mehra, Editor-in-Chief The theme for this month’s articles on Ecotalker is Decolonising Development. Before we assess the ‘colonisation’ of, and subsequent efforts to decolonise, development, it is crucial to understand what development is. The term ‘economic development’ gained traction in the 1950s when most countries belonging to the Global South were in the […]| Arthashastra
Private equity funds and other Wall Street investors are buying up homes across the US and West, driving up rent and cost of living. Economist Michael Hudson explains how corporate landlords are a result of financialized capitalism.| Geopolitical Economy Report
Capitalism has brought more wealth to more people than any other system in history. In those countries that have adopted capitalism, the standard of living since the Industrial Revolution has far outstripped all the growth of the previous millenia. Yet capitalism is often reviled as evil or, at the best, amoral. What are the facts? … Continue reading "The Morality of Capitalism"| Marsha Familaro Enright
Ok. As I’ve said in previous posts, the official position of the blog is now that we can derive everything we might want from Brandomian inferentialism within a Humean/Smithian apparatus that has the following core commitments: 1) a sentimentalist theory of normative conferralism (norms are made real by adopting normative attitudes of approbation and disapprobation […]| Negative Catallactics
Anthony Kronman tries to infuse the warmth of the Enlightenment into the rationalist universe of Spinoza.| Law & Liberty
When the disciplines of economics and sociology were being invented in Britain 250 years ago, their progenitors such as Adam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson,| Foundation for Economic Education
In The Money Game, George Goodman (writing under the pseudonym “Adam Smith”) strips away the illusions of Wall Street with wit and psychological insight. The book isn’t a traditional guide to investing—it’s a sharp, philosophical, and often humorous exploration of why investors behave the way they do. Goodman opens with a powerful premise: “The world is not the way they tell you it is,” and this applies most acutely to the world of finance.| The Acquirer's Multiple®
Back in the 1980s, I noticed something very odd. I was researching my somewhat seminal conspiracy book The Shadows of Power, published by Western Islands, book arm of the conservative John Birch Society. In doing so, I went through every issue of Foreign Affairs, flagship journal of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), then the […]| James Perloff
No ganó Mancur Olson el Nobel, pero sentó las bases de lo que luego desarrollaron Acemoglu, Robinson y Johnson.| Club de Libertad Digital
The Enlightenment may well be the end of an old story rather than the beginning of a new one. The philosophy of insatiable appetites changed the Christian-Aristotelian moral order into the modern world, but now that the change is just about complete, what purpose does its catalyst serve? (essay by Daniel McCarthy)| The Imaginative Conservative
The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level has been percolating among monetary theorists for over three decades: Eric Leeper being the first to offer a formalization of the idea, with Chris Sims and Mich…| Uneasy Money
How can an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and economist help us understand the digital economy and our modern, hyper-connected world? That’s a question I’m tackling in a series of three essays at libertarianism.org. Digital technologies have increased our connectedness in profound ways. In the first essay I examine how Smith’s ideas about specialization and exchange combine …Adam Smith and the Digital Economy: Connectedness and Gains From Trade Read More »| Knowledge Problem
A Review by Nancy Spannaus The Financial Programs of Alexander Hamilton, by a Farmer’s Daughter Dianne L. Durante Self-published, 2021, paperback, 388 pp., $35 Nov. 17, 2021—In her fifth book on Al…| American System Now
Robert Hetzel, a distinguished historian of monetary theory and of monetary institutions, deployed his expertise in both fields in…| Uneasy Money
