But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

A truly impressive achievement. Epstein ... went on to ask if “the augurs of old exhibited as much confidence as modern economists do".... My guess is no. One of P.J. O’Rourke’s ...

The Economist on Thursday published a scathing editorial criticizing President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on virtually all of the United States’ trade partners. On Wednesday, Trump held ...

Yet I wonder if we don’t have our own augurs. Today we call them economists. Like augurs, modern economists gain priestly respect for their reading of omens on cable television, where they ...

In a similar spirit, modern economist-philosophers have compiled a list of virtues that can be intrinsic within market behavior. Deirdre McCloskey (2006) wrote of seven virtues of middle-class ...