Government & Politics

The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right

Economist James K. Boyce explains how to fight climate change and rising income inequality in one shot

The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy

The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy.

Political risk—and what firms do about it

We adapt simple tools from computational linguistics to construct a new measure of political risk faced by individual US firms: the share of their quarterly earnings conference calls that they devote to political risks.

Frequent civil conflicts in African countries may erode national identity, thus highlighting a reason why civil conflict is costly for growth and development

Frequent civil conflicts in African countries may erode national identity, thus highlighting a reason why civil conflict is costly for growth and development

How free electricity could fight climate change and inequality

A collection of our research on populism, globalization and nationalism

One of America’s leading socialists discusses how a collectively owned economy would be structured, the limits of the welfare state, and what Keynes understood that Marx didn’t

The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy

This paper presents an historical analysis of the antitrust laws.