The extraordinary power of Trump 2.0, and the most dangerous consequences of his policies, stem from the normalization of anti...

Is China's economic power approaching America's, partly by making the US fatally dependent on Chinese trade? These two Dartmouth authors...

"Market failure" is often cited as a rationale for proposing government solutions to economic problems. In #4 of his year-long "Understanding the Economy" lecture series, Meir Kohn subjects the reasoning behind the theory of "market failure" to critical scrutiny.

In this talk, the third in a year-long series, Professor Kohn explains why terms like "capitalism" and "communism" do more to obscure than to illuminate any real understanding of the economic world around us. Understanding the economy involves thinking clearly about the words we use to describe it.

Matt Yglesias discussed the bipartisan rejection of neoliberal economic policies after the election of President Donald Trump in 2016 and an analysis of what this means for the future of American economic policy. The conversation was moderated by Douglas Irwin, John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and Co-Director of Political Economy Project.

Co-sponsored by the Economics Department, the Tuck School of Business, and the Political Economy Project Melissa S. Kearney is the Neil...

A wide-ranging conversation with Lawrence H. Summers, former Treasury Secretary of the United States and former President of Harvard...

In this second installment of his year-long series of lectures on "Understanding the Economy," Prof. Kohn explains that the real obstacle to continuing economic progress was not the inherent limitations of a subsistence or organic economy, but predation.

Michael Strain (American Enterprise Institute) and David Leonhardt (New York Times) drew on their recent books—The American Dream is Not Dead: But Populism Could Kill It (2020), and Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream (2023), respectively—to debate one of the pressing issues of our time: whither the American Dream?

Finance doesn't produce anything. It has long been regarded with suspicion across global cultures. What, then, does it contribute to our...