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For Each and For All: Martineau’s Moral and Economic Defense of Free Markets

By: Caroline Breashears Mar 10, 2026

Was Henry Hazlitt right in his defense of capitalism as "the system of freedom, of justice, of productivity," a system in which people are "free to choose. . . free to get and to keep the fruits of their labor" because they "recognize that their reward depends on their own efforts and output?"[1]…

Mrs. Dalloway: Only Authors Get to Understand People

By: Winston Tingle Feb 11, 2026

7 Reasons Why AI Isn’t As Game-changing As You Fear

By: Carlos Alejandro Noyola Contreras Jan 07, 2026

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Compounding Interest: Revisiting The Wealth of Nations at 250

By: Eric Schliesser, Maria Pia Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen, Brianne Wolf, Jacob T. Levy, and Craig Smith Mar 09, 2026

Arriving in 1776, as the Declaration of Independence gave birth to a new nation and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall gave birth to a new approach to history, Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations gave birth to a new discipline--modern economics.