Economic Insights

Economic Insights presents commentary on people and issues that lie at the heart of a free-market economy.

Past Economic Insights Issues

Vol. 11  | Vol. 10  | Vol. 9  | Vol. 8  | Vol. 7  |  Vol. 6
Vol. 5  |  Vol. 4  |  Vol. 3  |  Vol. 2  |  Vol. 1

Volume 11, Number 1, 2006

• Jean-Baptiste Say: Foundations of France's Free Trade Tradition
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 10, Number 2, 2005

• Henry George: Antiprotectionist Giant of American Economics
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 10, Number 1, 2005

• Irving Fisher: Origins of Modern Central Bank Policy
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 9, Number 2, 2004

• David Ricardo: Theory of Free International Trade
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 9, Number 1, 2004

• Knut Wicksell: The Birth of Modern Monetary Policy
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 8, Number 3, 2003

• Ronald Coase—The Nature of Firms and Their Costs
  Robert L. Formaini and Thomas F. Siems
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Volume 8, Number 2, 2003

• James M. Buchanan—The Creation of Public Choice Theory
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 8, Number 1, 2003

• David Hume—Foundations of the Classical School of Economics
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 7, Number 3, 2002

• Frank H. Knight—Origins of the Chicago School of Economics
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 7, Number 2, 2002

• Milton Friedman—Economist as Public Intellectual
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 7, Number 1, 2002

• Adam Smith—Capitalism’s Prophet
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 6, Number 4, 2001

• Ludwig von Mises
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 6, Number 3, 2001

• Schumpeter—In His Own Words
  W. Michael Cox
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Volume 6, Number 2, 2001

• Economic Protectionism
  Dwight R. Lee
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Volume 6, Number 1, 2001

• Henry Hazlitt—Journalist Advocate of Free Enterprise
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 5, Number 1, 2000

• Alexis de Tocqueville—Chronicler of the American Democratic Experiment
  Robert L. Formaini
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April 19, 2000
Special University of Georgia Issue

• 'Growth Comes Through Change and Causes Change'
  Bob McTeer
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Volume 4, Number 1, 1999

• Hayek—Social Theorist of the Century
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 3, Number 1, 1998

• Frédéric Bastiat: World-Class Economic Educator
  Robert L. Formaini
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Volume 2, Number 1, 1997

• The Entrepreneur as Hero
  Candace A. Allen
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Volume 1, Number 2, 1996

• Tax Reform: An Opportunity to Increase Our Saving
  Bob McTeer
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Volume 1, Number 1, 1996

• Rediscovering the Value of Honest Money
  Bob McTeer
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• Honest Money
  Henry C. Wallich
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• Examining the Moral Dimensions of Monetary Policy
  Rev. Robert A. Sirico
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