Global Economy

Between 1830 and 1903, Sweden experienced one of the longest and most successful free-banking periods in history. During this period, private note issuing banks were allowed and prospered. 

Dinosaur reveals many relevant truths that do not appear in World Bank financial statements and press release while reviewing much of the relevant literature. 

Austrian business cycle theory has a legitimate claim to being the most authoritative explanation of the recent global financial and economic crisis. 

Recent events in the US — high unemployment, record federal deficits, and unprecedented financial distress — have raised serious doubts about the future of the dollar.

Authors, Ekelund and Price have produced an engrossing and informative study of the economic life and times of Edwin Chadwick. Scholars interested in economic policy and reform, the history of industrialization,

In this article, J.H. Huebert reviews Richard A. Posner’s Catastrophe: Risk and Response.

Volume 20, Number 4 (2006)

In Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) and Collapse (2005), Professor Jared Diamond argues that geography and environment are the “ulti

Perhaps the best way of writing an introduction for this most welcome French translation of Ethics of Liberty is to discuss what has happe

Volume 22, Number 1 (Spring 2002)

Hans F.

This paper proceeds by explaining deflation and aggregate price determination in more detail. Then, some facts about the development of Japan, 1990–2001, are provided, together with an extensive interpretation