Today in the Planet Money newsletter, five recent papers that lit lightbulbs in our brains, and are maybe worth taking a look ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government on Tuesday created a new economic strategy panel, aiming to boost the ...

Without a plan for what comes next, the United States is not only hastening its own decline but also forcing the world into a ...

An Old Testament sage once said, “there is nothing new in the world.” Yet the Trump administration and that of Javier Milei ...

The global steel industry “is in a dynamic state,” — a Vietnam-era phrase used when much seemed astir, but no one understood exactly what. Two steel-industry issues confront us in the United States.

Profound change sometimes takes a long time to fully register. The economic and geopolitical consequences of President Donald ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Goodman offers market-based solutions to public policy problems. The election of Zohran Mamdani as the Democratic candidate ...

Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems In the early 2010s, a widespread feeling that economics teaching was failing students ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...