Profiles

So many to choose from but Scott Trask picks ten of the most glaring economic errors that have bespotted the history of American economic policy.

The French Revolution is a large and complex event worthy of a Gibbon, but it may not have happened at all if the French monarchy had balanced its budget.

Monetary inflation helped bring on the Terror and set French progress back a generation.

Sumner was the product of an indigenous American hard-money tradition that embraced free markets, free trade, and sound banking

Pioneering sociologist William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a prolific and astute historian of the early American republic. His work is informed by both his classical liberalism and his understanding of economics. He authored eight major works including major biographies and thematic studies...