Adam Smith has become the symbol of American capitalism, a champion of free trade and a free market. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it sometimes seems as if capitalism and America share the ...

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Nearly 250 years ago, Adam Smith identified two potential constraints on economic specialization: the “extent of the market” and the inevitable risks. Today, the risk constraint is proving to be the ...

Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

Every Nobel Prize in Economics tells a story about how we understand prosperity. This year’s winners — Joel Mokyr, Philippe ...

For the fourth successive year, the Nobel Committee has awarded the prize to economists who have delved into history to ...

George Gilder and Gale Pooley rightly note that a useful measure of how much things cost is how long we must work to earn enough to purchase them (“We Should Measure Prices in Time,” op-ed, April 17).

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt win 2025 Nobel in Economics for explaining innovation-driven growth and the ...

SHANGHAI (AP) — The head of a U.S. congressional delegation visiting China said he backed renegotiating the rules governing the global economy to take into account China’s rise and that of others such ...