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Benner’s recent work with Manuel Pastor suggests the somewhat counterintuitive result that geographic regions with the most equitable distributions of wealth and influence also tend to have the highest growth.

Should policymakers rely on domestic macroprudential regulation in their quest for greater financial stability?

The condition of the Chinese economy is increasingly becoming a significant factor exorcising the minds of global policy makers.

It’s no secret that wealth inequality has grown, both in the US and abroad over the past several decades. What has been particularly notable about the work of Emmanuel Saez is the quantification of that inequality.

Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care. She is Professor Emirita of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who has written extensively about the economics of care and reciprocity.

Exploring the genesis of an important work, one that critiques mainstream neoclassical economics and offers an alternative framework for understanding modern economies.

From the very start, the European Monetary Union (EMU) was set up to fail.

The world economy is just starting to recover from the most disastrous episode in the history of financial globalisation. Understanding what happened is essential.

Economic growth and rising prosperity does not happen at the moment of invention. Only an innovation policy aiming to maximise activities throughout the innovation cycle will succeed in capturing economic growth that enhance the welfare of all citizens.

Lessons Ignored From the 1930s

Professor Casarico explains why her focus on gender and the “glass ceiling” can help us push forward economic thinking.

Patrick Honohan, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, discusses the Irish banking crisis.

Innovation is not a magic pill to solve the current afflictions that ail our 21st century economy.

How might a reimagined American foreign policy both bolster the domestic economy and help build a 21st-century global economy that works for everyone?

Lance Taylor explains how missing the big picture is too common in the field.