Nobel Prize in Economics

The economist, along with David Card, was instrumental in changing America’s mind about the minimum wage.

By universalizing their own economic history, Western observers have used the past to portray African economic culture as backward and inadequate.

Robert Mundell’s theories spawned decades of economic debate and still matter to the big ideas of today.

Paul Samuelson’s mathematical brilliance changed economics, but it was his popular touch that made him a household name.

A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.

The author of a new biography of James McGill Buchanan explains how this little-known libertarian’s work is influencing modern-day politics.