February 2026 ISSUE

Property Rights and the Arctic Contest

By Maurizio Bovi

In recent years, the Arctic has returned to the center of public attention: the renewed interest in Greenland, the progressive opening of maritime routes due to ice melt, and the claims over areas like the Svalbard archipelago are clear signals that Arctic policy will r...

How Productivity Advances

By Arnold Kling

Every line trending upward, every drop in cost, every additional ounce of efficiency we can squeeze from a bundle of inputs is the product of deliberate effort—of thousands of workers, engineers, factory managers, and line supervisors redesigning products, rearranging facto...

Exploring The Chile Project

By J.P. Bastos

Any book that intends to provide a complete account of a chapter covering almost 70 years in the history of ideas is an ambitious achievement by itself, especially when it is centered around a fuzzy concept like neoliberalism. If such a book also attempts to cover decades o...

Misusing Trade Agreements

By Peter Calcagno and Beatriz Maldonado

Beginning on July 1, 2020, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) superseded the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as the trade deal among the three countries.1 Unlike NAFTA, which only included a transparency provision, the USMCA contains specific me...

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