Many workers deemed essential during the pandemic—such as those in eldercare, supermarkets, and distribution warehouses—are unable to make ends meet even in good times. And during the COVID-19 crisis ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a ...

Kate Raworth, senior visiting research associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, discusses the Doughnut economics framework as the essence of... Kate Raworth, senior visiting ...

The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, “Rethinking Economic Growth,” by Dan Varroney. The United States is the largest and most productive economy in the world, by a wide margin. But ...

For many years, serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Sunil Paul had mulled over approaches to encouraging sales of electric vehicles by reducing their high price and, as a result, reducing ...

Tough economic times pose a host of challenges, to be sure; however, a pronounced shift away from innovation—rather than a rethinking and recalibration of it—during a potential economic storm will ...

When we hear about economic growth, the first number that usually pops up is GDP-Gross Domestic Product. It measures the total value of goods and services produced in a country over a specific period.

Behavioral economics is a field that seeks to understand how people make decisions about things they want and need. The field relies on a collection of theories—models—that predict how people will ...

In today’s global economy of cross-border production networks, the need to understand the changing ways in which the state and firms work together has become even more pressing. While the state plays ...