History
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Working Paper
Setting the Record Straight on the Libertarian South African Economist W. H. Hutt and James M. Buchanan
Jun 2022
Despite his opposition to South Africa’s apartheid, Hutt embraced notions of black inferiority
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How to Deal with a “Bretton Woods Moment”
Feb 10, 2022
A new global economic system has to be based on a key principle of Bretton Woods: multilateralism
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Is the Doom of Humanity Really Inevitable? Maybe Not.
Jan 4, 2022
Evidence reveals our remote ancestors were neither brutes nor innocents, but complex beings whose experiments in living have much to teach us. Welcome news as disaster looms in every direction.
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Looking for a Libertarian Who’s Not Afraid of History
Dec 2, 2021
A response to Phillip Magness in The Wall Street Journal
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Why Mislead Readers about Milton Friedman and Segregation?
Nov 15, 2021
The curious case of the Wall Street Journal article on Virginia and school vouchers
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Globalization and Its Big Data: The Historical Record in Financial Markets
Oct 14, 2021
In the 19th Century, “hypothecations” provided investors with valuable information on sovereign fiscal resources
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Working Paper Series
Why do Sovereign Borrowers Post Collateral? Evidence from the 19th Century
Oct 2021
In the 19th Century, “hypothecations” provided investors with valuable information on sovereign fiscal resources
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How the U.S. Lost National Healthcare
Jun 15, 2021
An excerpt from the just released book, The Outlier, by Kai Bird
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How Greedy Corporations Turn the Black American Dream into a Nightmare
May 24, 2021
The plight of white blue-collar workers is well-known, but Blacks in that category were feeling the squeeze long before their white counterparts.
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Working Paper
The Unmaking of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class
May 2021
How once-promising Black upward mobility reversed course, and what can be done about it
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America Hasn’t Reckoned with the Coup That Blasted the Black Middle Class
Apr 29, 2021
In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow – and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.
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Debt Talks Episode 7 | The Case for Household Debt Relief
Webinarwith Erica Jiang, Johnna Montgomerie, and Jialan Wang; moderated by Moritz Schularick
Hosted by Private Debt
Apr 20, 2021
Large-sale debt relief for indebted households could be a game changer.
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Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One
Apr 13, 2021
Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a “Green Industrial Policy” or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”
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Debt Talks Episode 6 | Who’s Afraid of European Banks?
Webinarwith Martin Arnold, Elena Carletti and Richard Vague; moderated by Thomas Fricke and Moritz Schularick
Hosted by Private Debt
Feb 23, 2021
Does the COVID recession still have the potential to turn into a broader financial meltdown?
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James M. Buchanan, Segregation, and Virginia’s Massive Resistance
Nov 9, 2020
When segregationists fought against school integration, libertarian economist James Buchanan saw an opportunity for his private education plan