Small Modular Reactors are pivoting the nuclear industry from custom-built energy cathedrals to factory-built energy ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences last week awarded the “Central Bank of Sweden’s Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” to professors Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A.

Discover how Keynesian economics can stabilize economies by mitigating boom-bust cycles, as pioneered by John Maynard Keynes ...

Before his disastrous invasion of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Geography is destiny!” This assertion prompts thinking ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...

Science warns us that the 2020s will be humanity’s last opportunity to save itself from a climate catastrophe. Decisive action must begin this year. Climate change, however, is just one of the many ...

I reported earlier this month that the Financial Times published a pair of important articles asking why the goal of a firm is to maximize short-term shareholder value is still being taught in ...

Last weekend, I delivered a keynote lecture to economics students at Britain’s Open University on their Economics Day. This is a transcript of my presentation. Today I have been asked to speak on the ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...