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Beneath the heated political rhetoric over U.S.-China economic ties lies an increasingly complex reality

The Institute for New Economic Thinking’s recent Detroit event on race and economics noted both the structural impediments faced by African-Americans, and the impressive gains made in some communities despite those headwinds

As the world turns upside down, Mariana Mazzucato discusses how to shape an economy that works for everyone

What we’re reading: Some analysts expect dramatic changes and a short-term boost to the US economy, others predict continuity — and see Trump’s election reflecting a sea change in the global order

By suddenly eliminating two widely used bank notes, India’s government risks undermining public confidence in the basic means of exchange

Hoping to learn from other countries’ experiences in organizing finance for agriculture, more than 150 Americans were sent abroad in the summer of 1913 to investigate the minutiae of farm-credit systems in and around Europe.

Language has always been a way to divide, conquer, classify, and control, but it also helps to constitute who we are and what we think. 

Wired profiles Color of Change leader Rashad Robinson and explores the challenges of movement-building in an era of digital activism

Darrick Hamilton calls for spreading the benefits of asset-ownership to all Americans.

Eight years after the crisis erupted, what the global economy is experiencing is starting to look less like a slow recovery than like a new low-growth equilibrium. With monetary policy unable to stimulate demand, or even inflation, it’s time for fiscal authorities to relieve the burden on central banks.