For all the criticism that has been heaped upon free market economics for the supposed harmful effects of economic inequality, for not producing the socially desirable outcomes of some social justice ...

Both in economics and speech, the market is a powerful metaphor. Free economic markets are efficient, and produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people by the fair interplay of sellers ...

Mere Economics argues that the economic way of thinking is not merely reconcilable with Christianity, but that "economic principles follow from Christian doctrine." Academic economists and devout ...

Economics is one field of study that, for the most part, has not been driven off the railroad tracks by politically correct leftists steering college coursework toward progressive ends. The wasted ...

In American foreign policy, the period from 1990 through the summer of 2001 has been called the “holiday from history.” Between the collapse of the Soviet empire and the 9/11 attacks, the United ...

What is being offered by contemporary socialists are fairy tales, and we should not mistake them for the truth. These portrayals of socialism and their caricature of capitalism are inaccurate, vacuous ...

Even in retirement, Steven Reff likes to bring a cheerful excitement to the world of economics, always hoping to provide students with fun, useful and free economics resources. It’s that pursuit that ...

Since the global financial crisis, and particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, fiscal and monetary policymakers have operated as if there are no tradeoffs to their expansionary policy programs. Now ...

Planet Money Summer School is back! It's the free economics class you can take from anywhere... for everyone! For season three of Summer School we ask the big economic questions. It's time for ...

A central lesson of economics is that there’s rarely such a thing as a free lunch. Most policy choices involve trade-offs or benefit some people while incurring costs on others. Every so often, ...