Steve Davies
3 January 2012
A lot of people are looking to economic history for help in understanding the current economic situation. Most attention is being paid to the Great Depression of the 1930s, with a slew of...
Philip Booth
6 December 2011
Thirty years ago, the economics profession was dominated by naive Keynesians. The author of the standard textbook at the time, used by the majority of A-level students and first-year undergraduates...
Richard Wellings
10 March 2010
In this extract of an interview with John O’Sullivan, F. A. Hayek discusses the Great Depression and the influence of John Maynard Keynes. Professor Hayek explains that he spent a year...
Charles K. Rowley
7 September 2009
In our monograph, Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government, Nathanael Smith and I evaluate and categorically reject the hypothesis that a failure of laissez-faire...
Steven Kates
4 September 2009
The word is getting out that Keynesian economics is worthless as a guide to policy. Criticisms of public spending are found more and more frequently and the immense deficits we now face are...
Richard Wellings
28 November 2008
● Peter J. Boettke worries that governments are repeating the policy mistakes of the Great Depression.
● Philip Booth explains why we should be hopeful about the environment....