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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 ...

After the excitement of graduation wears off, many undergraduate economics students become worried. A friend, who got straight As in her final year, once said she didn’t think she knew “how economics ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...