All articles tagged: economics

A master class in conflicts

Gunning for history

The iconic novel, which celebrates risk-taking and self-interest, has important lessons for current debates surrounding inequality and liberty.

In his new book, journalist Matthew Yglesias argues that the U.S. should strive to triple its population.

Economist Pavlina R. Tcherneva demolishes the idea that there is an optimal rate of unemployment and makes a timely case for a national job guarantee.

What captains of industry can learn from captains in the great age of sail.

In his new book, journalist and historian Marc Levinson describes the limits of long supply chains and the ways in which new trade routes are forming.

In his new book, historian Rutger Bregman argues that people are actually fundamentally good.

Business is helping reshape how we live, work, consume, and connect in ways that could outlast the current crisis.

In their comprehensive new book, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain why mortality rates in the U.S. are rising.

In his new book, The Passion Economy, journalist Adam Davidson uncovers stories of small businesses that thrive in niches.

In the new book Fully Grown, economist Dietrich Vollrath argues that the recent spell of moderate growth in the U.S. is a sign of success.

Fifty years after its publication, Albert O. Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty still has a lot to tell us about the life of organizations.

In his new book, Oxford University economist Daniel Susskind sketches out the perils and promise of automation’s displacement of labor.

In his new book, Nobel-winning economist Robert J. Shiller emphasizes the importance of narratives.

Make economics germane again.

In his new book, Transaction Man, journalist Nicholas Lemann describes the evolution — and failure — of competing attempts to manage the power of corporations.

In his new book, Michael O’Sullivan looks to the past to find a future for the post-globalization world.

Economist Mariana Mazzucato explains how solving society’s toughest problems starts with rethinking how value is created and innovation is incentivized.

A 1908 novel about the fate of two sisters in Victorian England has a great deal to teach us about the challenges women face in the business world.

In his new book, The Future of Capitalism, Oxford economist Paul Collier lays out a path to restore the ethical foundations of the free-market system in the U.S. and Europe.

Citizens and policymakers are asking whether economies can break out of growth-dependent frameworks. Businesses should help find the answer.

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A new book argues that the global financial crisis that began in 2008 would have been much worse without American financial innovation.