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Gaston Nievas & Thomas Piketty pieced together database on global trade flows from 1800 to 1914 and 1970 to 2025, and found ...
He venerates late 19th century America with its high tariffs, which he claims helped propel the U.S. to wealth —despite historians dismissing this flawed understanding of the past.
S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...
TECH: 19th Century Economics And 21st Century Medicare -- Paying For Modern Diagnosis Don Rucker April 19, 2007 10.1377/forefront.20070419.000187 Add to favorites ...
I realized that philosophers like John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx substantially wrote about economics in the 19th century, with Mill becoming a key figure in economic thought by mid-century.
Combined with David Ricardo (1772-1823), another influential British economist who expounded on the benefits of free trade with his theory of comparative advantage, by the mid-19th century laissez ...
This is 19th century economics. The bottom line is that there is nothing to suggest that a positive conservatism will reemerge as a result of Johnson’s leadership.
Trump takes America’s trade policies back to the 19th century The president jacks up tariffs on all countries, with particularly sharp rises for much of Asia ...
The U.S. economic boom that took place in the late 19th century had little, if anything, to do with the high tariffs at the time, economists Alexander Klein and Christopher Meissner reported ...
In a New Year's Day post on Truth Social, President-elect Trump touted the benefits of tariffs, pointing to the Gilded Age. But economists found tariffs did not make American manufacturing great.
Another step toward the modern style of economics took place in the early 19th century when a wealthy stockbroker, David Ricardo, after reading The Wealth of Nations was inspired to develop his own ...