Turgotonomics

Now the digital exhaust of all that life online is poised to become an asset class for speculative investment...

The first line of inquiry I would like to develop connects to a central point Foucault makes in his reading of German Ordoliberalism...

The adverse impacts of restricting fossil fuel exports on the Russian economy would be overwhelming...

Clinton’s ‘New Democrats’ were eager to partner up with the private sector to draft the first comprehensive set of internet policies...

If the load was heavy bottles of fizzy drinks, as it often was on a hot summer night, the lorry would slow to a snail’s pace on hills...

The role of carbon policy was to keep ‘single agents’ from free-riding on one another...

At first, users paid real money for the upkeep of virtual chickens, sheep, bees, and cattle, earning cash back in the game by keeping the animals alive. Riding high on the good publicity, Farm Bank soon went one step further, launching real-life farms...

There are two competing perspectives about the cause of the opioid explosion, and they lead to different policy prescriptions...

I decided to ask my six-year-old son what he thought money was. “Gold,” came the confident answer. It turns out that he was thinking of pound coins...

In the bigger picture, the economic history of Britain since the mid 19th century is, inevitably, a history of relative economic decline...

To the vast majority of bitcoin investors, success means its price continues to rise. But if that is all there is to it, someday a little boy will yell, "the Emperor has no clothes", and the price will come crashing down...

The currency was literally shrinking, and Newton’s first task was to sort the situation out. Making his life still more complicated, international values were based on silver, but the value of gold was soaring...