S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

The annual debate on how to spend Medicare dollars is here again. We have many modern analytical tools to look at health care spending, but it may be worth going back to some basic insights of ...

The 19th century saw the birth of the industrial age with its associated social problems. Of all the "isms" that date from this period, Georgism is one of the most relevant today, but the least ...

An engraved portrait of American writer and economist Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879) Over the last few weeks President Donald Trump’s trade wars have triggered market instability, stoked fears ...

Instead, Mr Trump extolled the prosperity of America in the late 19th century, when the country was much poorer than it is today. “We can be so much wealthier than any country, it’s not even ...

But economists found tariffs did not make American manufacturing great. Accessibility ... "vast wealth for the country," and he pointed to the experience of the Gilded Age in the late 19th century.