We are finally seeing some of the proposed economic policies that both candidates for the presidency are rolling out. While still incomplete, a few commonalities are beginning to emerge. Unfortunately ...

How economics wrecked the world and how we can escape ‘Ricardo's Dream' For two centuries, mainstream economics has promised that abstract models and free markets would deliver prosperity, stability ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Goodman offers market-based solutions to public policy problems. The election of Zohran Mamdani as the Democratic candidate ...

Among ongoing efforts to rethink the basic tenets of mainstream economics is a provocative new book by James Galbraith and Jing Chen. The authors sweep aside the intellectual structure of mainstream ...

As part of our Marketplace Economic Pulse series, we examine the economy from a range of perspectives. Today, we hear from Clara Mattei, a professor of economics at the University of Tulsa In Oklahoma ...

As U.S. trade with China exploded in the early 2000's, American manufacturing began to shrivel. Those workers struggled to adapt and find new jobs. It ran counter to how mainstream economics at the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a ...

The miners’ April 2026 Ankara resistance and the fragmented and weak picture on 1 May 2026 have once again highlighted the ...