Now in its fourth year, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ Workshop on Political Economy brings together scholars from across the globe to study the history of economic thought using the archives of such notable thinkers as Karl Popper, Milton Friedman, and F.A. Hayek.  This year the workshop welcomed Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power (2015), who presented a keynote address on June 28^th.

Hoover welcomes the participants of the 2017 Workshop on Political Economy.

Hoover fellow Russell Roberts is using rap music to make the dismal science far less dismal. By Charles Lindsey.

Marxism was never about achieving an egalitarian society. It was about the pursuit of raw power.

The root of most arguments against the market is a lack of belief in freedom—at least for other people—as a worthy end.

The Western media tell us that China’s leaders haven’t changed much in the past twenty years, and they may well be right. What has changed is the China around them. By Hoover media fellow William McGurn.

Transmitting the visceral ethical code of civilization

The political science departments at elite private universities such as Harvard and Yale, at leading small liberal arts colleges like Swarthmore and Williams, and at distinguished large public universities like the University of Maryland and the University of California, Berkeley, offer undergraduates a variety of courses on a range of topics...