To return again to that subject exercising so many of our finest economic minds at present. What happens when the robots get good enough to come and steal all our jobs? There's various possible ...

Last week was the 200th anniversary of the most counterintuitive idea in economics. On April 18, 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, in which Ricardo ...

It’s very rare that one feels bold enough to disagree with Professor Diedre McCloskey on economics (or history or English or anything else she chooses to master or simply take an interest in, which ...

The great mathematician Stanislaw Ulam challenged the great economist Paul Samuelson to name a principle in the social sciences that was both true and nonobvious. Samuelson thought for a bit, then ...

The first edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics by David A. Moss was published in 2007—just as one of the world's great economic downturns was taking off. The second edition has just been ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! British Conservative Party member Owen Paterson delivered remarks on the state of negotiations for the U.K.'s exit from the European Union (also ...

David Ricardo's concept of comparative advantage is an important premise in international trade theory because it explains how and why countries trade, even when one country can produce all things ...

Two hundred years ago this year, British economist David Ricardo outlined a theory of international trade based on the notion of comparative advantage. The idea is that each country does something ...

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