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Treating education like a market is all the rage. But it hurts students, and our society.

Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be a job killer—if we use it right

The implications of rising inequality are massive. Economists need to tackle it together.

When workers are classified as independent contractors instead of employees, they fall into a hole not covered by many labor protections

Lance Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research, delivers the annual Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism.

Dani Rodrik says that when ideas become conventional wisdom, we are blind to their limitations

Globalization’s elite winners get lower taxes while its losers pay more

China is the staging ground for an economic experiment: Can innovation succeed when it’s directed by an authoritarian stat

Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare

“Founding father” of virtual reality explores the ways digital platforms change economic relationships Computer scientist Jaron Lanier explains the uneasy relationship between an analog world and a corporate digital infrastructure.

As automation takes on more routine tasks, work will become more about creativity, ethics, and empathy

The Nobel laureate economist discusses how an activist government is needed to tackle problems like climate change

To understand behavior and choice, we need to borrow from not just cognitive science but also sociology.

We can land planes safely at crowded airports, yet we can’t manage to make our financial system safe. Why?

Universal Basic Income is gaining in popularity, among socialists and libertarians alike. But when it comes to implementation, the devil is in the details.