Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign economic proposals cantered on an “America First” approach that echoes neo-mercantilist ...

In Das Kapital, Karl Marx outlined a historical progression of socioeconomic systems: tribal communism, slave societies, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, and ...

Explore how President Trump plans to reshape the U.S. economy for a 'Golden Age,' aiming for dominance and long-term success.

UK Parliament. “The Navigation Laws.” University of Houston, Digital History. "Chapter 4: British Mercantilism, and the Cost of Empire." University of Houston, Digital History. "Slavery in the ...

In Wealth of Nations, the father of modern economics Adam Smith argued that free trade promotes a flourishing economy—not mercantilism. Slavery was a common practice throughout the history of ...

Donald Trump believes that imports are a 'cost', and that exports are a 'benefit'. And, secondly, he seems to believe that tariffs are a tax paid by foreign exporters to the governments of importers.

Today, the US Trade Representative will hold hearings on proposed interventions to support the US shipbuilding industry, which both the Trump administrations (and the Biden administration) believe ...

Trump is appeasing Russia? Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not to ...

This week in Friday Philosophy, David Gordon reviews The Tariff Superstition: Why Protectionism Always Fails and Who Really ...

The Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett discusses what Trump’s plan to “detox” the economy is actually meant to achieve.

In the long history of Western diplomacy with mass ... standing up to China's mercantilism, neo-imperialism, and domestic oppression of minorities, or Russia's prior 2008 and 2014 invasions ...