It’s been said that the discovery of something as modernly primitive as coal resulted in major leaps for the typical worker. By one estimate, this form of theoretically “dirty energy” was the equivale...
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Helen Rappaport’s Fascinating ‘After the Romanovs’
In 1981, Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane traveled to the Soviet Union with his fellow co-founder, industrialist Charles Koch. Crane subsequently wrote a long-form essay about his visit that remains...
Matthew Hennessey’s Very Enjoyable “Visible Hand”
In his endlessly excellent 1981 book The Economy In Mind, the late, great Warren Brookes told the story of an economist clearing customs at JFK Airport in the malaise-ridden, late 1970s. The official ...
Want to Arrest Inflation? There’s a Simple, Bipartisan Solution
It’s hard to fathom now given the debased nature of the monetary discussion today, but when Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1980, a standard line in his speeches was that “No nation in history has ...