At the end of July, shortly after Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate for President, The Economist described her ...

Economic theory does regard capital investment as a contributor to economic growth, but there is another essential factor: ...

Full employment, it was new said, implies inflation; one cannot have the one without suffering the other. Why this should be was never made clear, because bourgeois economic theory does not ... yet, ...

A new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a ...

This is often referred to as New Keynesianism and its proponents include figures such as Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman. We ...

The combination offers a more sustainable future for us all. A core set of services catering to major life areas, provided ...

Acemoglu and Robinson show that the institutions that produce economic growth are inevitable threats to the power of reigning elites. The "key idea" of their theory ... with the new, and the ...

At the biennial UK-South Africa bilateral forum the Foreign Secretary and Foreign Minister Lamola will refresh the ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves plans to merged dozens of council pensions schemes into much larger schemes. Some experts have ...

Rachel Reeves will next week set out plans to use the £354bn local government pension scheme to boost the UK economy, in a Mansion House speech intended to reassure the City of London that she has a ...

Trump’s victory means there are more ‘known unknowns’ than even that other Donald, Mr Rumsfeld, could ever get his head ...