Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined over recent decades, darkening opportunities for middle-class…
According to the traditional rules of politics, the US Federal Reserve and President Joe Biden’s administration should get credit for…
This is a bold and intriguing paper. It offers a new explanation for poverty reduction (or lack thereof) and interesting new empirical…
It is painfully clear that South Africa is performing poorly, exacerbating problems such as inequality and exclusion. The economy’s ability…
Lebanon’s current economic crisis ranks among the worst in recent history. GDP has collapsed by 38% in real terms. The Lebanese lira, which…
China’s ongoing economic slowdown is partly the result of its failure to implement crucial structural reforms that would have enabled it to…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
What difference does it make, if any, both analytically and from a policy response perspective, when the basis for the type of social…
In her new book "Doppelganger," leftist writer and activist Naomi Klein seeks to make sense of our current political climate by exploring…
Exploiting a new global macro-historical database of effective tax rates, we uncover an intriguing pro-tax-capacity effect of international…