A new study tackles the fraught question and upends tidy narratives with a subtler reality: more equal countries tend to be ...

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British economist John Maynard Keynes spearheaded a revolution in economic thinking that overturned the then-prevailing idea that free markets would automatically provide full employment—that is, that ...

You may not know it—we all use economics every day. Economics is the science of decision-making and how to create value through trade. Since we make decisions and we trade every day, we all use ...

The U.S. economy and equity markets may be underperforming this year due to a surge in policy uncertainty, a decline in ...

It brings together the long tradition of analysis of economics as a policy science with more recent ideas about the performativity of economics. It draws on the literatures of economic history, ...

Ideas in economics can sometimes prompt policies that promote the greater good. But ideas motivated by idealism and then pursued with intense commitment are rare. Yet these are the qualities that make ...

A grassroots effort is asking American consumers to refrain from making purchases at major retailers for one day in February.

an Economics professor at Boston College. "For example, a lot of the defense spending goes to private contractors. So how can you cut that out of GDP? It's a ridiculous idea." United ...