To return again to that subject exercising so many of our finest economic minds at present. What happens when the robots get good enough to come and steal all our jobs? There's various possible ...

The great mathematician Stanislaw Ulam challenged the great economist Paul Samuelson to name a principle in the social sciences that was both true and nonobvious. Samuelson thought for a bit, then ...

It’s very rare that one feels bold enough to disagree with Professor Diedre McCloskey on economics (or history or English or anything else she chooses to master or simply take an interest in, which ...

In 1817 the great English economist David Ricardo coined the phrase "comparative advantage" to identify activities that one nation can do better than most others. The concept here is that if the Swiss ...

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Many believe that cities, regions, and countries should specialize: they cannot be good at everything, so they must concentrate on their comparative advantage. But, while this idea seems obvious, it ...