Geopolitical risk is top of mind for companies these days, and it seems that every week brings a new proposed sanction, trade control, or investment restriction. Increasingly, companies and investors ...
Jenna Saucedo-Herrera is CEO and President of greater:SATX, an economic development partnership leading the San Antonio region’s growth. People are often surprised to learn that economic development ...
Communities across the globe are in a constant cycle of modernizing nearly every facet of life: housing, infrastructure, education, amenities, transportation and public policy, to name a few. All need ...
In an era marked by economic turbulence, from inflation spikes to tech disruptions, the compass of classical economic thought, particularly that of Henry Hazlitt, offers not just direction but ...
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Defining modern economics

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1723-90) was published on 9 March 1776. It met with instant success. Scholars were all praise for it but thought such a ...
I read “Searching for Capitalism in the Wreckage of Globalization” with more frustration than surprise. Oren Cass’s argument consists, roughly speaking, of two parts. The substance of both parts ...
It did not require the invention of national income accounting to demonstrate that the United States was becoming increasingly well-to-do. The expansion of the United States geographically from its ...