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“Equitable COVID19 vaccine distribution is a very important issue of global solidarity”

Capacity, Scale, and Control

Comment on Paul Krugman’s recent observations on US inflation

Researchers worry the pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations

Developments in the real economy have persistently challenged central tenets of older economic thinking, such as the supposed close connection between the money supply and inflation.

The Challenge to Bidenomics

The economy is likely to be crippled for months and fiscal rescue on a large scale, once again, is very much necessary.

Populist parties and the decline of progressive politics in Italy

While Africa’s “premature deindustrialization” appears to be the dominant global narrative, recent analysis of the data suggests that de-industrialization is not the common experience for the majority of African countries

Expert warns that it could be a race against the clock as the fast-spreading B117 variant picks up steam in the U.S.

Expert warns that without more robust abatement measures and testing, the virus could rage until mid-2022.

In this interview, Camilla Toulmin and Folashadé Soulé speak with Carlos Lopes, Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, London

How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.

On the occasion of the ASSA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (Jan. 3-5), Peter Bofinger presents a “10 Best of” Mankiw list

Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William Lazonick and Öner Tulum study the race to end the pandemic.