Who defines and enforces property rights? If you are the average person, an undergraduate student, or even a mainstream economics professor, that answer is easy: the government. Look it up! Municipal and county governments determine the deeds to your property and vario...

A central argument of this book is that episodes involving mass violence that contribute to an atmosphere of social unrest and political instability are likely to increase national elites' willingness to invest in primary education in order to prevent future threats...

One common criticism of capitalism is that it has sparked an epidemic of loneliness. This is often attributed to the individualistic nature of capitalism, and to the fact that markets have replaced a variety of more personal and communal connections with commercial acti...

Book Review of Poverty, By America, by Matthew Desmond.1 I had not planned to read this book. I found the author's essay on the history of American capitalism for the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project badly wanting, so I passed over Poverty, By America, ...