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It's easy to find gloomy predictions for continued slow growth of the US economy. Thus, Lee Branstetter and Daniel Sichel caught my eye ...

Do you know the true story of how a careless clerk, while burning up some outdated money, caused the Great Fire of 1834 which destroyed bot...

"Global value chains often involve numerous cross-border operations, conducted either `intra-firm,' that is, between firms related ...

Members of the Religious Society of Friends (often known as the Quakers) use the word "query" in a specific sense, to refer to a q...

Arnold Kling tackles the hardy perennial topic "How Effective is Economic Theory?" in the Summer 2017 issue of National Affairs . ...

Who said: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty?" Well, it wasn't Thomas Jefferson, at least not according to the officia...

As a July 4 mental workout, consider an alternative version of history. At the end of the Seven Years War (also known as the French and Ind...