Steve Keen's latest book is succinct and wide-ranging. This book provides a clear direction for economics. Meaningful macroeconomic models must be based on reality. Equilibrium for modeling nonlinear, ...

Exile Economics underestimates the attractiveness of a retreat from free trade. Companies can become reliant on protection ...

Martin Sandbu sets out an ambitious policy agenda to recreate an economy where everyone feels they belong. Readers of his “Free Lunch” columns in the Financial Times will not be surprised by his ...

This is the story of one of the world’s greatest (but least famous) con artists. Ghana’s John Ackah Blay-Miezah bilked investors on several continents by promising he knew where lost gold was hidden.

Brad DeLong felt confident that the story started in 1870. The polymath economist was writing a book on economic modernity—about how humans transitioned from eking out an existence on our small planet ...

Given seesawing tariffs, stock market upheaval, and ongoing supply-chain woes, does the average person have any hope of grasping what’s going on with the economy? “I don’t think you can understand it ...

There has always been something irresistible about advice in mathematical form. When, in the Book of Genesis, Joseph was plucked from prison to interpret the dreams of the Pharaoh, he offered some ...

In her new book, author and PhD student Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman looks at how both gender and race cost Black women — and how ...

S ince the release of ChatGPT in 2022, the value of America’s stockmarket has risen by $21trn. Just ten firms—including ...