Fifteen years ago, a local physician approached me and asked if I’d hire his best friend as a researcher. Even though his physician friend had trained at the Sorbonne in Paris and had been a ...

Trumpism is the new, populist, post-postmodern form of a “non-ideological ideology” redefining the relations between the State and Capitalism. A new iteration of an oligarchy who, after shifting their ...

Theories of capitalism have always also been theories of crisis. John Maynard Keynes linked the instability of capitalism to the instability of aggregate demand, and Marxist thinkers like Rosa ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

We currently have the technology to capture carbon from the air, which could deal with our excess co2 if we had mostly green energy. I think we can deal with waste heat once we have carbon controlled.

Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 6 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, 7th ed., 1999. Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly ...