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Interview with Hernando de Soto
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Interview with Anna J. Schwartz
Anna Schwartz has been an important force in shaping the course of economic research. Her seminal work, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, co-authored with Milton Friedman, revolutionized the study of money, and her many other books, papers and reviews have also been influential. In this interview she shares her thoughts on money, banking and Trollope.
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Catching up with Lawrence Lindsey
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\\"Something unanticipated happened\\"
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Railroad redux
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Monopolies: Silent Spreaders of Poverty and Economic Inequality
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the vast inequalities that exist within the US economy. As the virus has spread silently, it has laid bare other crises that face our nation---especially the economic vulnerabilities of the country's poor and marginalized. Many of these vulnerabilities can, in fact, be traced back to a single cause that itself has spread silently, but over the last several decades, not months: Monopolies. That monopolies are "silent spreaders of poverty and economic inequality" was well known to economic and legal scholars of the 1930s and 1940s. Wendell Berge, who was ...
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Sterilized fx