What’s the Point of Economics as a Discipline?

3/17/2026|Updated: 3/17/2026

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Commentary

Prices up, prices down. Markets up, markets down. Jobs up, jobs down. Recession, stagflation, inflation, recovery, and blithering amounts of data. What is the meaning of all of this? For many people, the economic news is white noise that makes no sense with no coherent plot. But for those who take the time, the news is a narration of the story of our times.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker

Author

Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]