"We've been going back and forth for a century." So began an economics rap between two long-dead English economists, interventionist John Maynard Keynes and governmentophobe Friedrich Hayek that went ...

British journalist Nicholas Wapshott's new book, Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics is about a heated debate, eight decades past, between two of the most influential economists in ...

I got so many emails from readers who loved the Keynes vs. Hayek “Boom and the Bust” rap video last week, here is the sequel. These econ talk videos come from econstories.tv and are produced by Russ ...

Tuesday evening. To the Asia Society on Park Avenue, where I am taking place in a Keynes vs. Hayek debate organized by Sir Harold Evans and Thomson Reuters. (At some point today, you will be able to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Some arguments go on forever. It's been almost 80 years since John Maynard Keynes brought some fresh thinking to Leon Waldras' 1870s Equilibrium Theory of Economics. It set off a squabble which became ...

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With already more than 500,000 views, the “Fear the Boom and Bust” video starring John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek is not exactly news. Still, in case you missed it, I’ve posted it below. At a ...

To many market watchers, the fight of the century wasn’t the “Thrilla in Manila” that pitted heavyweight champs Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier against each other in 1975. No, it was the battle royale ...

It took over 20 years for John Maynard Keynes's “General Theory” to be translated into Chinese. That was still a bit too soon for some of its readers. Published in 1957, around the time of Mao ...

This day in history: 20 years ago today, economist F.A. Hayek bit the dust. Reason interviewed the man himself in 1977, and re-ran that interview in honor of his death in 1992. Reason: Of your ...