An often-discussed term in macroeconomics, especially in the past year, has been the so-called “soft landing.” Any observers of American...

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A series of intense pro-democracy protests took Hong Kong by storm in the latter half of 2019 following the introduction of an...

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Gabriel Winant is an historian who studies the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism and a professor at the...

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The national debt currently stands at almost $25 trillion, with interest of $382 billion. However, it receives minimal attention. Since...

Anton Howes is an economic historian studying the industrial revolution. He is currently the in-house historian at the Royal Society for...

Gregory H. Shill is a law professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. His recent work, including Should Law Subsidize Driving?...

Dr. Jeffrey Miron is a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is...

Nick: I remember first reading about a controversy surrounding the New History of Capitalism scholarship when Dr. Edward Baptist’s book,...

In the last two years, the Shanghai and Beijing Municipal Governments have been on a steady mission to, ostensibly, formalize the...

Since 2016, Portugal has enjoyed robust growth (at least relative to its European peers), climbing wages, and a precipitous drop in...

Amazon’s search for a city in which to locate its second North American headquarters has caused a frenzy among prospective locations....

John Maynard Keynes needs no introduction as the most important economist of the 20th century. His theories have shaped modern economics...

Panama City is an intersection. It lies between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; between jungles and man-made waterways; between colorful...

Dr. Ha-Joon Chang is currently a professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Born in 1960s South Korea, Chang used his humble...

Four years ago, a mass demonstration in Barcelona to celebrate La Diada, Cataluña’s national holiday, triggered the latest in a long line...

Imagine living in virtual darkness: zero access to Internet connection in your home; shut out from scientific and technological...

I remember standing in line at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Providence at the heart of a rally for Donald Trump. Like at many other such...