There is a growing interest in the West with the idea of a “Buddhist economics.” The German E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful:
In the (1955) edition of his top-selling Economics text, Paul Samuelson claimed economists had finally determined how economies worked. As he put
AIER Leading Indicators rose to 58 in January 2023 from 21 in December 2022, an increase to just over the neutral level
The debt ceiling standoff between President Biden and the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives indicates Republicans care about government spending and deficits
“You can fool all of the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all of the time,
“I will make no apologies that we are investing to make America strong. Investing in American innovation, in industries that will define
After eight rate hikes from the Federal Reserve in the last year and declining inflation during the back half of 2022, many
An interesting and well-written new book about the deep historical causes of modern economic growth, Forging Modernity, is about to appear from
New Zealand recently passed a law permanently prohibiting the sale of tobacco to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009. That’s
Other than a small, beleaguered band of fiscal conservatives in the Republican Senate caucus, no one in that body cares about impending
Wokeness features too many flaws even to list – never mind to discourse upon – in an essay of reasonable length. But
The National Labor Relations Act gives labor union officials powers that no other people in the private sector have. Here are the
I rely on experts. Everyone should. Sick? Visit the doctor. Tooth trouble? The dentist. Car trouble? The mechanic. Climbing Mount Everest? Hire
Did America’s Founding Fathers really embrace a nationalist economic program of tariffs and industrial subsidies? According to the “National Conservative” movement, such
Noncompete agreements, wherein an employee agrees not to work for a company’s competitors for some period of time after leaving the company’s
Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigns at Soldier’s Field, Chicago, Illinois. Source: Flickr The American Institute for Economic Research was formed 90 years ago to
