Once relegated to the junk heap of economic ideas by mainstream policymakers, industrial policies, or state actions to change the composition of economic activity, are making a comeback. In the United ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a ...

Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world It’s a mind-blowing idea: an economic model of the world in which every company is ...

Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it is reshaping economists’ education As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of ...

President Trump will nominate Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor, to be the next chair of the central bank. Warsh has advocated for lower interest rates and a smaller balance sheet at the Fed.

An Introduction to Ergodicity Economics is a new textbook that draws on physics to re-examine traditional economic theory. It begins with flipping a coin. And a hypothetical gambit. Imagine you were ...

Jasper Kenter is Principal Investigator for the Global Assessment for a New Economics (GANE), Honorary Fellow of the University of York and former Lead Author for the Intergovernmental science-policy ...

The Trump administration authorized a $20 billion financial lifeline for Argentina as it faces an economic crisis. The deal has raised major questions and criticism about its merits. President Trump ...

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE IS USING A GLOBAL POP STAR TO HELP STUDENTS LEARN THE INS AND OUTS OF ECONOMICS. WLKY’S MEGAN MATTHEWS WENT TO THE CLASS TODAY AND EXPLAINS HOW TAYLOR SWIFT IS THE PERFECT ...

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The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University; Philippe Aghion of Collège de France, INSEAD and the London School of Economics; and Peter ...

The unsettling impact that the Trump administration’s health care and tariff initiatives are having on M&A activity and financing is highlighted in a new survey of CEOs and investors, who say ...