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Why Digital Currency Won’t Save Us

By Sheila Dow

State-issued digital money may avoid some pitfalls of cryptocurrency, but it’s no financial panacea Read more

Article Aug 13, 2018

Macroeconomics and the Italian Vote

Article By Walter Paternesi Meloni and Antonella Stirati

Aug 6, 2018

The Rise of Hedge Fund Activism

Article By Jang-Sup Shin

Aug 3, 2018

Austerity Caused Brexit

Article By Thiemo Fetzer

Aug 2, 2018

Boycott the Journal Rankings

Article By Alberto Baccini

Jul 27, 2018

America’s White Collar Middle Class Takes a Terrifying Slide Down the Mobility Ladder

Article By Lynn Parramore

Jul 24, 2018

Ending the Wild West of Sovereign Debt Restructuring

Article By Martin Guzman

Jul 23, 2018

Reproducibility Crisis Reaches All Randomised Controlled Trials

Article By Alexander Krauss

Jul 9, 2018

Money and the Unflappable Economist

Article By Philip E. Mirowski

Jun 25, 2018

Italy’s Crisis Is the Left’s Crisis

By Carlo d'Ippoliti

When politics is defined in terms of “populism” vs. “the mainstream,” the possibility for real economic reform is diminished. Read more

Article Jun 22, 2018

A Poetic Challenge to Global Capitalism That Will Rend Your Heart

By Lynn Parramore

Edoardo Nesi’s new book tracks the destructive march of globalization and neoliberal capitalism through his own life and the places, like Italy, that lie broken in its wake. Read more

Article Jun 21, 2018

The Dismal Science and the Beautiful Game

Article By Jack Gao

Jun 20, 2018

The American Behind the Deutsche Mark

Article By Carl Ludwig Holtfrerich

Jun 20, 2018

How the Largest Banks Are Leading Us to a New Financial Crisis

Article By Michael Greenberger

Jun 19, 2018

Italy Holds A Mirror to a Broken Europe

Article By ​Orsola Costantini

Jun 14, 2018