World History

Among all those goods which have been offered as examples of public goods, national defense and lighthouses have been among the most frequently cited.

During the late 1840s more than one million Irish died and many more emigrated, with the Irish population not returning to its former level for over a century. 

This volume sets out to debunk the common myths about the origins of liberal thought: that Anglo-Saxon thinkers had a privileged role in the history of liberalism;

Japan has experienced an Austrian business cycle. The initial boom was created by a central bank–induced monetary expansion. Because of repeated interventions, the economy has not recovered.

Authors, Ekelund and Price have produced an engrossing and informative study of the economic life and times of Edwin Chadwick. Scholars interested in economic policy and reform, the history of industrialization,

This paper contrasts the writings of Frank Knight and Ludwig von Mises, two economists from the first half of the twentieth century who were highly critical of Christianity, with the philosophies of the Christian 

Hayek points to the works of Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, and Adam Smith as the primary origins of his social theory of spontaneous order. 

In terms of the domestic economy, the established history of English liberation and French stagnations still holds, but War, Wine, and Taxes: 

 I appreciate the fact that the author attempts to construct logical rather than mathematical arguments, as seems to be the disease that has struck most of the economics profession at the present time. 

When the economics profession turns its attention to financial panics and crashes, the first episode mentioned is tulipmania. In fact, tulipmania has become a metaphor in the economics field.