Joel Mokyr’s intellectual journey to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics began at Yale, where he was Ph.D. student in the early 1970s under the mentorship of the late William Parker, a path-breaking ...

The S&P 500 is down 3% from its high because investors are worried about rich valuations and the economic impact of President Trump's policies. In 2025, the U.S. economy expanded at its slowest pace ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. President Donald Trump wants Americans to see history his way, historians be damned.

In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power. Centuries ago, Beckert writes, investors traveled to remote corners of the ...

New Delhi: Penguin Random House India is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of The Ideas That Shaped India and Its Economy: 1870–2017 by economist and writer Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, to be ...

Conclusion In observing the economic history of the last 100 years, we do best to look at risks systemically in order to have a better chance to prepare for potential fallout. This is best done by ...

IN RECENT YEARS the British economy has tended to be in the news for the wrong reasons. Growth has been soggy, inflation has been high and living standards have been squeezed. Over the past 15 years ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Winter 2025/26 issue of The Independent Review. What if economics were a material science? In Economics as Science: A Critical History of Economic Thought, ...

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