Economics

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson is a deeply probing historical biography. This book plunges into the depths of…

12 months ago

Keynes: The Twentieth Century’s Most Influential Economist

Ever since the current financial crisis began in 2007, one name started reappearing in the newspapers. Not that John Maynard…

1 year ago

10 Things You Might Not Know About Adam Smith

1.While studying at Balliol College at Oxford, Adam Smith became absent-minded at the dinner table, which was common for him.…

1 year ago

Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy

Adam Smith: Life, Thought and Legacy is an expansive work about one of history’s most important thinkers and political economists.…

1 year ago

New Book on John Maynard Keynes Offers an Accessible and Engaging Introduction to the Famed Economist’s Life and Work

“Roger Backhouse's Simply Keynes is simply the best brief account of Keynes's thought and influence. Keynes was a man of parts and…

2 years ago

Excommunicated and Outlawed: Putin and Bonaparte, The Pariahs of Europe

The similarities between Vladimir Putin and Napoleon Bonaparte are at once striking. Napoleon was at the apogee of his career and power in the…

2 years ago

Understanding John Maynard Keynes

This piece has been excerpted from Simply Keynes by Roger Backhouse, part of Simply Charly's Great Lives series. John Maynard…

2 years ago

Darwin, Evolution and Economics

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution includes two generative components: mutation and natural selection. Mutation generates genetic variants and hence phenotypes;…

4 years ago

Closing the Book on Marx Is Not a Class Act

"Abolish all private property!" This admonishment came in the middle of the 19th century from the founder of communism, Karl…

4 years ago

A Brilliant Madness: The Death of Mathematician John Nash

He had shown that an extraordinary mind could overcome mental illness, but a few days ago the acclaimed American mathematician,…

4 years ago