Even the (presumably rational) economists of the world love to try to predict the future. They often get it wrong, suggesting that all the rational data in the world is rendered useless by the irrationality of human behavior.

Supermarkets represented a major innovation in food distribution—a gendered innovation that encouraged women to find sexual pleasure in subordination.

Being a fitness instructor isn’t a very highly-paid job, but, researchers found that the job provides other rewards for the people who love it.

Monopoly's real inventor was Lizzie Magie, a progressive Georgist, who believed that land should be collectively owned by all.

As the Middle Ages progressed, monasteries became a major engine of economic activity in European communities.

Back in the 1920s and ‘30s, the magazine Women’s Home Companion tried explicitly appealing to its readers to take the ads seriously.

Before today's fight over net neutrality, the US government debated commercial profitability & popular access in the context of a different medium: radio.

Back in the 1940s, when America's post-war economic system was taking shape, many popular economists agreed that “free markets” were a fiction.

How did truckers nudge the American economy toward deregulation?

An early paper by Elizabeth Warren argues for a Financial Product Safety Commission that would regulate financial products.