The Independent Review is the acclaimed interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of political economy and the critical analysis of government policy. The Independent Review is thoroughly ...

Antara Haldar reflects on an age-old misunderstanding about what the great Enlightenment thinker actually argued.

Adam Smith has become the symbol of American capitalism, a champion of free trade and a free market. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it sometimes seems as if capitalism and America share the ...

Renowned economist and author James Robinson today described the current global situation as a “crisis of the liberal model of prosperity and progress,” arguing that humanity stands at a historic ...