Governments around the world are responding forcefully to the COVID-19 crisis with a combined fiscal and monetary response that has already reached 10 percent...
As an educator, I’m always looking for “teachable moments” – current events that illustrate and reinforce the principles on which I’ve been lecturing. And...
As the world’s business elites trek to Davos for their annual gathering, people should be asking a simple question: Have they overcome their infatuation with...
Judging by his appointment of a first-rate economist to his Cabinet as Economy Minister, Argentina’s new President Alberto Fernandez is off to a good start in...
It’s clear: We are living beyond our planet’s limits. Unless we change something, the consequences will be dire. Should that something be our focus on...
At the end of the Cold War, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated essay called “The End of History?” Communism’s collapse, he argued, would...
In the new world wrought by U.S. President Donald Trump, where one shock follows another, there is never time to think through fully the implications of the...
Facebook and some of its corporate allies have decided that what the world really needs is another cryptocurrency, and that launching one is the best way to...
What kind of economic system is most conducive to human well-being? That question has come to define the current era, because, after 40 years of neoliberalism...
Kirstjen Nielsen’s forced resignation as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security is no reason to celebrate. Yes, she presided over the forced separation of...
The world’s advanced economies are suffering from a number of deep-seated problems. In the United States, in particular, inequality is at its highest since...
It’s old news that large segments of society have become deeply unhappy with what they see as “the establishment,” especially the political class. The “yellow...
Just under 10 years ago, the International Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress issued its report, “Mismeasuring Our...
The United States has long held itself up as a bastion of democracy. It has promoted democracy around the world. It fought, at great cost, for democracy...
All eyes are on the United States as November’s Congressional elections approach. The outcome will answer many alarming questions raised two years ago, when...
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, some economists argued that the United States, and perhaps the global economy, was suffering from “secular...
What was at first a trade skirmish – with U.S. President Donald Trump imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum – appears to be quickly morphing into a...
In 1967, riots erupted in cities throughout the United States, from Newark, New Jersey, to Detroit and Minneapolis in the Midwest – all two years after the...
I’ve been attending the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in Davos, Switzerland – where the so-called global elite convenes to discuss the world’s...
Never has a piece of legislation labeled as both a tax cut and a reform been received with as much disapproval and derision as the bill passed by the U.S....
One of the important powers of any U.S. president is to appoint members and heads of the many agencies that are responsible for implementing the country’s...
When the South African government attempted to amend its laws in 1997 to avail itself of affordable generic medicines for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, the full...
Hurricane Harvey has left in its wake upended lives and enormous property damage, estimated by some at $150 billion to $180 billion. But the storm that...
Although America’s right-wing plutocrats may disagree about how to rank the country’s major problems – for example, inequality, slow growth, low productivity,...
Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States took another major step toward establishing itself as a rogue state on June 1 when it withdrew...