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Workers, innovation, and productivity all suffer when corporations spend their new U.S. tax breaks on stock buybacks.

The African Development Bank has laid out a plan for economic prosperity in the continent. But to get there, African countries must first confront jobless growth and underfunded infrastructure projects.

The corporate titans of yore once offered a sizable wage premium over smaller employers—but not anymore. What happened?

Forget the myth of a savings glut causing near-zero interest rates. We have a shortage of aggregate demand, and only public spending and raising wages will change that.

Summers discusses inequality, the GOP tax plan, and our economic future

How Germany, the EU and the economics field itself suffer from myopia—and what we can do about it

What can today’s economists learn from the 18th century Scottish thinkers who grappled with societal and economic change?

New research shows that access to elite colleges varies by parents’ income—reinforcing inequality across generations 

When an economic model fails, it is reality—and the people living in it—who pay the bills while the model lives on, unscathed.

Faced with rapid cost reductions for clean electricity generation, some commentators suggest that we no longer need the Paris agreement or other policy interventions, because technology alone can solve all problems.