Biographies

Self-made billionaire Sheldon Adelson says the secret to his success was "never knowing anything" about the businesses he entered.

A particularly outstanding feature of J.B. Say's treatise is that he was the first economist to think deeply about the proper methodology of his discipline.

David Ricardo made one vital contribution to economic thought and to the case for freedom of trade: the law of comparative advantage.

Every great European nation translated Say's Trait into its own language.

By the turn of the 19th century, the views and doctrines of Adam Smith had swept the board of European opinion.

The impacts of Mises’ life and work have been resounding now for 100 years

Raico begins his work of conceptual clarification by asking, what is classical liberalism?

Bryan Caplan recently blogged about “the awful” John Stua

It is no wonder that Smith's Wealth of Nations made little headway at first in Germany.

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk was an economist, lawyer, finance minister, teacher, and a founding figure of the Austrian School of economics.