Capital and Interest Theory

THE FREEMAN Letters to the Editor Thanks to Milton Friedman's brilliance, charisma and diplomacy he became an ardent spokesman for many free market reforms in this country. And now Ivan Pongracic, Jr. (The Great Depression According to Milton Friedman, September 2007) gives him credit for...

My post Knock It Off discusses Jacob Sullum's Reason article about knockoffs in the high-fashion industry, and the lobbying by designers for copyright-like protection of clothing designs. A recent article in The New Yorker,...

For you Fed-heads, the papers from the Fed's Jackson Hole Symposium are now on-line. From Dr. Robert Shiller of Yale University,...

What could these two thinkers, considered to be opposites, have in common? It turns out that Karl Marx inherits from Adam Smith a very basic error, one which has monumental consequences and has changed the world forever.

Adam Smith tells us in his famous treatise on the wealth of nations...