Our present era, like any before it, throws its own complex questions into the economist’s fray: How to balance stability and progress? How to distribute finite resources in a fair manner?

The answers rarely come easily, often revealed only in retrospect. But the journey toward them cultivates an intellectual resilience, and an appreciation for life’s endemic tensions.

Take heart, brave scholar! Even economics essays can reflect a deeper current of creativity, their knowledge-laden paragraphs yielding to flights of candy-striped prose.  [Read more…]