Volume 13, Number 2 (Summer 2010) Many economists argue that a pure market economy cannot come about because people will always have incentives to use coercion (Cowen and Sutter, 2005; Holcombe , 2004...
Volume 2, Number 2 (1978) Andrew Jackson’s war upon the Second Bank of the United States and the economic consequences stemming from it badly need a new historical interpretation. The traditional...
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel joins Bob Murphy for an in-depth discussion of the economics of slavery, touching on subtleties such as the labor/leisure trade-off, and the recent claims by some historians that slavery was efficient.
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (29:19)
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