In his introduction to John Tamny’s new book Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You About Economics, Steve Forbes sums up the present state of ...

1. For several years, I have been teaching a freshman seminar at Harvard. I always start with this book, and the students always love it. Most economics books are bloodless. They give us ideas, but ...

Arthur Laffer is best known as the economist who invented the Laffer Curve, a diagram that shows how an optimal tax rate can maximize revenues without discouraging people from working. So I was ...

The fundamental principles of economics are based on human nature and do not change regardless of how they are interpreted. People behave certain ways on an individual and societal level based on the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Unfinished Business: The Unexplored Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Lessons Yet to be Learned, by Tamim ...