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The Myth of America’s Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies

The Myth of America in Decline

by Josef Joffevia Fellow Talks
Monday, May 5, 2014

Josef Joffe, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discussed the long tradition of American declinism in his talk entitled “The Myth of America in Decline.” 

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Labor’s Digital Displacement

by Michael Spencevia Project Syndicate
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Digital technologies are once again transforming global value chains and, with them, the structure of the global economy. What do businesses, citizens, and policymakers need to know as they scramble to keep up?

The Crusade Years

by George H. Nashvia Hoover Digest
Monday, April 21, 2014

When Herbert Hoover left the White House, he remained intensely interested in world affairs, devoting much of the rest of his life to the struggle against collectivism.

Marxist Myopia

by Mark Harrisonvia Hoover Digest
Monday, April 21, 2014

Why is Marxism still fashionable in some quarters? Because although the free market’s hard edges are easy to see, its benefits are more subtle.

Taiwan’s Voice of Experience

by Tai-Chun Kuo, William Ratliffvia Hoover Digest
Monday, April 21, 2014

If China wants an example of progress, it need only look across the Taiwan Strait.

Dealing with the New Deal

by David Davenport, Gordon Lloydvia Hoover Digest
Monday, April 21, 2014

The debate that erupted in the 1930s still presents us with the same fundamental choice: greater liberty, or greater government power?

On the Cover

via Hoover Digest
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Capitalism's Nine (and More) Lives

by Gary S. Beckervia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Like Karl Marx, present-day doomsayers hail every crisis at the death knell of capitalism—and, like Marx, they're wrong.

Hoover launches “The Libertarian” podcast

In Defense of JPMorgan

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Richard Epstein looks at JPMorgan Chase’s difficulties with the FHFA and the Justice Department.

Another Uncertainty Principle

by Russ Robertsvia Hoover Digest
Friday, October 18, 2013

Why can't economists gaze into the future the way physicists gaze into the atom? Because the science of economics is still emerging.

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