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Honorary Vice President at IMANI Center for policy and education, Bright Simons, on the challenges Ghana is facing

Perry Mehrling’s new book traces the rise of the dollar through the life and career of influential economist Charles Kindleberger

What is your first association when somebody talks to you about the economy?

How a bleak Christian theology influenced the development of the dismal science

Melanie Xue shares insights from her research into the parallel history of women and the intelligentsia in Chinese society.

INET is invested in identifying the complex global interactions that influence poverty and development with a focus on strategies that have proven successful in promoting equitable growth, promoting capabilities, and reducing poverty.

Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf discusses his just-released book

The market can’t save us.

How can we quantify the wage share implied by varying degrees and types of participation to Global Value Chains?

On the passing away of Victoria Chick

If primary commodities and mid-to-high-tech manufacturing products are produced by industries with different wage shares, there are distributive implications of deepening trade integration with certain regions with respect to others.

Why the conventional tools of the Phillips Curve, NAIRU, potential output, and money-supply growth are useless

On the passing away of Luigi Pasinetti

Generosity or greed? The roots and fruits of venture capital might not be what you have been led to believe.

Possible repercussions of economic crisis on the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility