Bradley A. Hansen's Blog

The irony of holding tea party protests on April 15 is that the Tea Act of 1773 was a tax cut. Prior to the Act the English East India Compa...

The BBC Online examines the Wizard of Oz as a monetary allegory . I was interviewed because of my paper “The Fable of the Allegory: the Wiza...

"Constraining the state's ability to employ forces: the standing army debates, 1697-99" by Shawn Humphrey and Bradley A. Hanse...

Think Tanks The Cato Institute The Brookings Institution The American Enterprise Institute The Heritage Foundation The Urban Institute Gover...

Robert Wright reviews Hamilton's Curse a new book by Thomas D Lorenzo.

If you are thinking about majoring in economics you are not alone. Here are stories from NPR and the Chronicle of Higher Education .

Ed Perkins writes about The Rise and Fall of Relationship Banking at Common Place .

Dani Rodrik writes that "we need to contemplate a transition from the national version of the mixed economy to its global counterpart. ...