This graph compares negative economic growth and positive economic growth; and their impact on the poor or on poverty ...

Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

The current political discussion about tariffs has led to confusion about imports and GDP. Business leaders assessing the ...

Leading up to the election, economic figures said the economy was doing pretty well and inflation was slowing down ...

We should not look just at the visible and obvious results of tariffs. We must also look at the good things that the tariffs ...

The field of economics has a physics problem. Or, more specifically, a playing-dress-up-as-a-natural-science problem, says Nick Romeo, a longtime writer for The New Yorker magazine and a professor of ...

The Trump administration's economic policy will be one of high tariffs, reduced regulations and investment in weapons, according to the president's nominee for top economic advisor.

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

The nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025 have been announced, and it’s certainly an interesting and downright random mix, with eight of the shortlisted artists ...

Complemented by international loans, the exhibition showcases, for the first time, the museum's own collection of American images, which it has been busy expanding since 2007. America and ...