The potential implementation of tariffs presents significant economic risks that may be overlooked in the current bullish market environment. Historical evidence and economic principles suggest that ...

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Joel Mokyr’s intellectual journey to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics began at Yale, where he was Ph.D. student in the early 1970s under the mentorship of the late William Parker, a path-breaking ...

The Costa Rican Colón (CRC) has been Costa Rica's official currency since 1896, reflecting the nation's economic history. Learn how it coexists with the U.S. dollar.

During his first Joint Address to Congress, Donald Trump made some fairly bombastic claims. One rambling remark asserted that ...

President Donald Trump wants Americans to see history his way, historians be damned. On the one hand, Trump is actively trying to forbid any reevaluation of American racial history, on campuses and in ...

As we approach our country’s 250 th birthday, there is no better time to reflect on where we have been and how we got here. Yet Americans are surprisingly ignorant about our past. As I noted in Part I ...

The Economic History Association was founded in 1940 to "encourage and promote teaching, research, and publication on every phase of economic history and to help preserve and administer materials for ...