Over the past year, we've seen a lot of commentary about John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, their relationship, their debates, their various ideas ...

Not quite a "Hayekian," because I disagreed with the master that mathematics could not be used to illuminate theory, and distrustful of Keynesian theory, which advocated massive government spending and deficits -- I felt I had no intellectual home.

As we seek to choose our next president, we are also still trying to decide, as a nation, whether to risk our still-fragile economic recovery on the competing theories of Keynes and Hayek.

Unlike the movies, life rarely permits second takes. But the Second World War gave John Maynard Keynes, the patron saint of government activism, and F...

The Free Market faithful have rewritten a great deal of history. But their most recent claim that Franklin Roosevelt started the Great Depression? That's just ludicrous.