Tag: Economic History

Inequality and Poverty in China’s West

C. Patterson Giersch introduces his new book Corporate Conquests

Why Permanent Revolution?

The heart of modernity and capitalism

State-Made Elites

An entitlement system from 200 years ago sheds light on inequality in China today.

The Sway of Economists in Public Policy

How have economic experts come to wield so much influence in policy making?

History’s Economic Underpinning

Jewish economic history—too long stigmatized—opens up surprising insights into the past, and the present too.