Are Past Anti-Trust Approaches Appropriate Today?
February 4, 2024
A discussion with Naomi Lamoreaux on the historical shifts in anti-trust policy, and the ongoing tension between rewarding innovation and curtailing anticompetitive activities.
February 4, 2024
A discussion with Naomi Lamoreaux on the historical shifts in anti-trust policy, and the ongoing tension between rewarding innovation and curtailing anticompetitive activities.
February 26, 2023
J. Bradford DeLong discusses why despite the material progress of the last 150 years, the utopia that people in earlier, more materially dire periods believed would come about, remains elusive.
September 25, 2022
Benjamin Friedman of Harvard University discusses how religious thinking influenced people’s views of economic policy in the past, and how that influence continues into the present day.
March 13, 2022
Roger Lowenstein describes how Abraham Lincoln and Salmon Chase revolutionized the role of the federal government, and helped forge a national identity.