Hobbes, Locke, and the Problems of Political Economy

BY PETER B. JOSEPHSON Saint Anselm College

Looking back at the remarkable history of the Nobel Prize from 1901–2016 using maps, charts and tables

Rousseau on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing

BY JOHN T. SCOTT University of California, Davis

Aristotle on Economics and the Flourishing Life

Adam Smith and Human Flourishing

BY Ryan Patrick Hanley

Of Deliberate Practice, Memory, and Expertise

Of late, I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of expertise. It’s partly…

Working Memory is the Path to Expertise

I’m spending a few posts riffing on the relationship of memory and expertise, and what…

The Costs of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Chicago’s teachers are on the verge of striking — for the third time since 2012…

Federal appeals court rules against Chicago taxi monopoly in favor of consumers, competition, creative destruction