Economics & Empire 369

If you want a reason to reach for a beer, read this piece, preferably at a bar featuring IPA’s during Happy Hour.

The book does a great service in dismantling economic shibboleths about trade, money, labor, and markets, and then reconstructing them along different premises that conform with both human happiness and…

It should help open the ‘closed shop’ of economic theory to a potentially rich and fruitful debate.

The election offers us false choices - again.

Harry Reid's election in Nevada is all about an argument over the direction of the American system. Would that we could argue about the nature of that system instead.

Without proper accounting, there can be neither honest pricing nor clean water.

On the banks of a river, but can't get a drink.

News Flash: The Fed to reward spendthrifts and debtors!!

Macy's goes local. Except for the profits.

TARP has expired. Are we better off for it?

For Wendell Berry, the environmentalist cause and the localist cause are (or should be) one and the same.

Is being Number One all it's cracked up to be?

The Ninth Anniversary of 9/11/01; Three Squared Equals Zero in the New American Math.

Is being an American worth it?

My review of Hardy Green's The Company Town is in today's Wall Street Journal.

So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control?

I people really want to see the current state of the union, they need to take a look at my favorite part of Liberty State Park, which is the fact…

Economics has become a totalizing system claiming the power to explain all things. It is as much a religious system—by another name—as is Berry's Great Economy.

Our military is off defending Afghanistan and Iraq from themselves while our Financial Titans are rescued to live another day of utterly neglecting the welfare of the Republic.

If your doctor had this same track record of diagnosing and treating disease, you’d be dead by now.

Might Steinbrenner be to professional baseball what an agribusiness is to farming?

Though he had passionately opposed Hitler from the very beginning and had striven to protect the helpless from the SS, neither Americans nor English shed many tears for Moltke when…

A riff on Thomas Frank’s thesis in "What’s the Matter With Kansas?," asking why wealthy voters in Blue States like Connecticut have been apparently voting against their economic interests by…

Whenever I hear someone claim that “our enemies hate us for our freedom,” I think first of the USS Vincennes and July 3rd, 1988. Twenty-two years ago today, Vincennes was…