By Nancy MacLean (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2021–22) Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But billionaires did not launch this movement; a … Continued
Edited by John F. Richards (NHC Fellow, 1979–80; 2000–01)
By Daniel Horowitz (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)
Edited by Joan Thirsk (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes IV and V part II, now appear for the first time in five paperback volumes, designed primarily for a student readership. Dealing respectively with pieces, wages, profits and rents; estate management and the condition of the farm labourer; … Continued
Edited by Harlan R. Beckley (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) During the first half of the twentieth century, John A. Ryan developed and promoted moral arguments for reforming the economy of the United States. He was an advocate of minimum wage legislation and child labor restrictions, and he was very much involved in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New … Continued
By Lluís Barbé (NHC Fellow, 1979–80)
Edited by Kevin D. Hoover (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Over the past two decades the new classical macroeconomics has become the single most coherent school of macroeconomic thought. Always controversial, it has nonetheless captured centre-stage, and has become the standard by which competing schools of thought are judged. These volumes contain the most important and influential … Continued
How will the twenty-first century differ from the twentieth? The human population will probably be larger, more slowly growing, more urban, and older. The human population will interact in the twenty-first century with dramatic economic changes, which could take place in information technology, biotechnology, and economic inequality. These demographic and economic possibilities will in turn … Continued
In its June 23 (2016) Referendum, 51.9% of UK voters elected to leave the European Union. Daniel Kelemen breaks down the complicated path of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU – or Brexit. More than a removed political decision in another country, Keleman describes the short- and long-term ramifications of this decision on the … Continued
Too often, the history of corporate capitalism is told as a story of “great men” who innovated by creating new labor systems and irresistible commodities. The reality is far more interesting. This webinar puts the ordinary people who built the early the cigarette industry, before the dangers of smoking were understood, at the forefront. Hundreds … Continued