Protectionism has been growing since the last phase of the Obama administration. The administration’s Trans-Pacific ...

From early in World War II, the United States led a broad movement toward freer trade that has been the foundation of our ...

Individual ambition serves the common good,” wrote Adam Smith, masterful eighteenth-century analyst of the emerging ...

Capitalism and economic globalization have no shortage of critics. As Cassidy shows, their criticisms have remained strikingly consistent over the centuries.

From early in World War II, the United States led a broad movement toward freer trade that has been the foundation of our ...

Individual ambition serves the common good,” wrote Adam Smith, masterful eighteenth-century analyst of the emerging ...

John Cassidy’s “Capitalism and Its Critics” is a rewarding guide to the many fascinating attempts throughout history to ...

What they did was block British manufacturers with very high tariffs, the highest tariffs in the world well into the ...

That’s because the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs, with the exception of the Covid years, increased from 2010 to 2022. That’s right, the supposedly hollowed-out industry that only loses jobs ...

The 18th-century economist and philosopher Adam Smith, for instance ... Of course, the Industrial Revolution produced theorists in addition to rebels. Among its most famous thinkers are Marx ...