Paola Subacchi thinks the US treasury secretary’s efforts to move bond markets shows that the dollar remains everyone’s ...
Yanis Varoufakis cites adherents’ belief that, unlike in the West, the technology will avoid capitalism’s “rent trap.” ...
Across South Asia, this sense has animated powerful protest movements, some of which could shape their countries' political ...
Danny Sriskandarajah urges Andy Burnham’s government to make the most of the UK’s upcoming G20 and G7 presidencies.
Alberto Alemanno sees serious shortcomings in the Rhine Group’s basic approach to European reform.
Katharina Pistor thinks the two institutions have lost sight of their central, but not independent, role in financial markets ...
Brahma Chellaney urges greater transparency and international oversight for a project that could affect two billion people.
After decades on the margins of mainstream economic thinking, monetarism is beginning to re-enter the debate, most notably at the Federal Reserve. To regain credibility, however, monetarists must ...
Esther Ngumbi explains how policymakers can help farmers raise yields without further degrading the environment.
Kaushik Basu urges economists, journalists, and other observers to probe the misery hidden by aggregate income statistics.
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar & Seyed Mohammad Karimi show that a supposedly humane form of coercion imposes the greatest costs on the most vulnerable civilians.