Milton Friedman

The 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking work.

The 2007–2008 crisis was an epic clusterfuck. The rise of private equity has only made things worse.

1970s United Fruit CEO Eli Black got caught between the warring ideals of ‘social responsibility’ and shareholder gains.

How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas.

How market fundamentalists convinced Americans to loathe government.

Hyperindividualism has infiltrated our economic, social, and political landscape.

Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding.

"Slouching Towards Utopia" is a rise-and-fall epic—but it is better at depicting the rise than explaining the fall.

Inflation hawks and inflation doves alike have learned the wrong lessons from the monetary policies of Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan.

Three books explore a history of fractious extremism that predates Donald Trump.

The history of control and decontrol in the oil market.

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 

A new book aims to recover the Constitution’s pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality.

Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits.

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.

Before the rise of macroeconomics that accompanied World War II, price determination was a central problem of economic thought.

East European Jews and the lost world of immigrant banking.

Pass the free enterprise, please.

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

For economist Albert Hirschman, social planning meant creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty.