Economic Dynamism

We consider the principles, policies, and culture that support free market capitalism.

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A Tech Republic, If You Can Keep It

The only real threat to American tech dominance is America itself. 

James Hartley
Economic Dynamism
Jun 9, 2026

Eating the Rich, Ending Civilization

Will we build a moral architecture disguising a perennial human impulse?

Economic Dynamism
Jun 8, 2026

The Great AI Jobs Transition

It's time to develop a posture that treats AI labs and other private actors as the first movers in discovering policy interventions that Congress can then scale, with a particular eye toward younger Americans.

Kevin Frazier
Economic Dynamism
Jun 3, 2026

Edmund Phelps and the Culture of Dynamism

His research led him to a new theory of what he called “indigenous innovation.”

Ryan Streeter
Economic Dynamism
May 28, 2026

The Contested Legacy of Keynes’ 'General Theory'

Nearly a century after the publication of 'The General Theory,' debates over Keynes’ legacy continue to influence modern economic debate.

Joshua Banerjee
Economic Dynamism
May 27, 2026

Edmund Phelps: Economist of Values

Edmund Phelps was rooted in an older tradition of economics, that of political economy, than perhaps even he recognized.

Economic Dynamism
May 26, 2026

AI Vulnerability Can Spur Tech Progress

Until recently, finding software vulnerabilities, especially in applications where the source code is unavailable, was the province of a tiny, elite group of reverse engineers.

Economic Dynamism
May 26, 2026
Research
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The Beginning of the Warsh Fed Era

Economic Dynamism
May 22, 2026

Proxy Advisors Vote “No” on Texas

Michael Toth
Economic Dynamism
May 21, 2026

Lives Entwined in the Great Stock Market Collapse

Alex J. Pollock
Economic Dynamism
May 14, 2026

The Keynes Symposium

Richard Epstein, Jonathan Hartley, Michael Munger, Veronique de Rugy, Leonidas Zelmanowitz
Economic Dynamism
May 13, 2026

What SpaceX’s IPO Tells Us About American Capital Markets

Julia R. Cartwright
Economic Dynamism
May 6, 2026

Chicago’s “Disappearing Middle Class” Can Be Found in Its Proliferating Upper Middle-Class Neighborhoods

Scott Winship
Economic Dynamism
Apr 30, 2026
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Gordon Wood Told the Truth About America

Gordon Wood showed us that a great historian could also be a regular guy.

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Gordon Wood's American Revolution

Widely acknowledged as the pre-eminent historian of the American Founding in our time, Wood was virtually without peer within academic American history today.

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