Property rights – which enable decisions over tangible and intangible assets – are critical to an economy as Why Nations Fail ...

The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy. We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on ...

The Austerian policies which followed tend to protect the rich at the expense of the rest of the community. Rarely, for ...

This year’s Nobel awards in economics raise critical issues about the future of the world. I was not alone with high hopes when the Soviet Union collapsed. It has been good to see various nations ...

In 1992 James Carville, Bill Clinton’s lead strategist, hung a sign on the wall of the Democratic candidate’s campaign office in Little Rock, Arkansas. It had three lines on it to focus the team on ...

A new book challenges how we need to think about technological innovation. Last week’s column mentioned the three 2024 Nobel laureates in economics. The column focused only on the 2012 book Why ...

He’s done it. The re-election of Donald Trump as US president is a massive shift in US and global politics. Cool heads and steely-eyes are called for at momentous times such as this, but those steely ...