The essays that follow, on the current state of macroeconomic analysis, were motivated by at least two developments. First, consider the question posed by Queen Elizabeth, who, on visiting the London ...
April 2021, Book: "The rise of top-heavy inequality—earnings concentration in a very thin layer of elites—calls into question our understanding of the distributional effects of the Liberal ...
ABSTRACT: This study examines the influence of international trade on income inequality within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by employing the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Panel ...
ABSTRACT: This study examines the influence of international trade on income inequality within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by employing the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Panel ...
The authors set out to use what economists can say with some certainty to find common ground in the great debates of our time, such as those about migration, trade, economic growth, climate, and ...
Why is trade conducted between countries? The short answer to that question is that "the exchange of goods and services between countries is mutually beneficial." The bottom line is "mutual benefits." ...
This week “The Economist explains” is given over to economics. For each of six days until Saturday this blog will publish a short explainer on a seminal idea. ECONOMISTS can usually explain the past ...
IN AUGUST 1960 Wolfgang Stolper, an American economist working for Nigeria’s development ministry, embarked on a tour of the country’s poor northern region, a land of “dirt and dignity”, long ruled by ...
Moving goods around the globe is such an everyday phenomenon that it has become almost invisible. But the business, policy, technology, and politics of trade have been powerful forces throughout ...