We are finally seeing some of the proposed economic policies that both candidates for the presidency are rolling out. While still incomplete, a few commonalities are beginning to emerge. Unfortunately ...

How economics wrecked the world and how we can escape ‘Ricardo's Dream' For two centuries, mainstream economics has promised that abstract models and free markets would deliver prosperity, stability ...

Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.

As part of our Marketplace Economic Pulse series, we examine the economy from a range of perspectives. Today, we hear from Clara Mattei, a professor of economics at the University of Tulsa In Oklahoma ...

Among ongoing efforts to rethink the basic tenets of mainstream economics is a provocative new book by James Galbraith and Jing Chen. The authors sweep aside the intellectual structure of mainstream ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a ...

Monopoly is a powerful thing, particularly where economic ideas are concerned. If economists are to solve the problems that people care about, they must stop treating production as an afterthought and ...

“Heretics always remain tied to the church. To break out, what you do is nail your theses on the door, turn around and ...

It brings me no pleasure to write this. Years ago, as an undergraduate at the University of the Philippines, I sat in Professor Walden Bello’s political sociology class. He was a captivating lecturer ...