Note: This history of economics at William & Mary is taken from a paper published in Essays in Economic and Business History, Vol. 6 (1988), pp. 110-123. Since that time other works on the early ...

What is an economy? You might say it is how people who cannot predict the future deal with it. People save money to protect themselves from calamity. Banks charge interest to account for risk. People ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Winter 2025/26 issue of The Independent Review. What if economics were a material science? In Economics as Science: A Critical History of Economic Thought, ...

Brad DeLong examines a study that places the origins of the Industrial Revolution in fifteenth-century Europe. What is modern economic growth? Going by the best available measure (it might be more ...

Economic history examines how production, exchange and institutions evolve over time, shaping societies and livelihoods across regions and eras. It explores the causes and consequences of economic ...

If economics is truly the dismal science, then you might conclude that the history of economics must be a positively depressing topic for a book. Fortunately, such is not the case with Niall Kishtainy ...

The Department of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno, was founded in 1911, making it one of the oldest units in the university. Originally part of the College of Arts & Science, we awarded ...