Slavery was both a set of economic arrangements and also a raw authoritarian human rights violation.
Simon Haeder makes a gentle case, nudging the undecided to consider the possible of paying kidney donors, in "Thinking the Unthinkable: Buying and Selling Human Organs" (Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter 2020, pp. 44-52).
The Federal Reserve is reinventing itself in plain sight, again. Here's a figure from the Fed website, "Recent Balance Sheet Trends."
The dramatic economic decline due to the Covid-19 crisis and the unprecedented recovery spending plans approved by President Trump will drive the fiscal 2020 United States budget deficit to a record $3.8 trillion, or 18.7% of U.S. gross domestic product, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB).
Lighthouses have been a canonical example for economists--but what that example is intended to illustrate has shifted dramatically over time.
Much of the history of the United States for its first century is a story of expansion from its original foothold on the eastern seaboard across the North American continent.
It's clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a recession.