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Readings: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, Part I, Part II, Essay III, Of Money, (page 281) and Part I, Essay XI – Of the Dignity or Meanness of ...

Sarah Skwire doesn’t say YOU MUST READ SHAKESPEARE…but if you do, you’ll probably learn from him. And then you can reread him later to learn more and different things. In this hour-long conversa...

Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander. The campaign asks people for as little as 600 pesos to virtually adopt one of the tiny “water monsters.”

Elinor Ostrom's work is relevant to most of our decisions

Who was Milton Friedman? Jennifer Burns of Stanford University finds in her biography of Friedman that the answer to that question is more complicated than she thought. Listen as she and EconTalk’s ...

In this episode, Ada and Jo speak with Jon Evans about the remote research versus travel, short stories, beleivability, and setting up shocking twists for striking payoffs.

Could one tiny decision have changed The Enlightenment forever?

The Federal Reserve has released the latest update to their Distributional Financial Accounts data, which the data underlying several of my past posts on generational wealth. With that recent data, I ...

Improving standards of living are something that we have mostly taken for granted in modern America. In fact, failing to produce sufficient increases in national income is one of the surest ways for a...

The Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture Series presentsRyan GriffithsPolitical Science, McGill University"Adam Smith's 'Coarse Clay' Political R...

and speculations about Adam Smith's thoughts on work.