As costs are rising and wallets are hurting, these books explore the promises and pitfalls of the U.S. economy.

Since founding Optimax, the entrepreneurs had achieved tremendous success. Companies around the globe were using their ...

American economics departments don't teach Karl Marx or Arthur Laffer for the same reason: their economic theories were wrong ...

Join the Americas Program and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce for a discussion on the opportunities to strengthen North American economic security in an era of geopolitical uncertainty. The economies ...

What was the worst moment for the American economy in the past half century? You might think it was the last wheezing months of the 1970s, when oil prices more than doubled, inflation reached double ...

When politicians dither, economies suffer. Policy uncertainty exerts a peculiarly pernicious effect on economic growth by making businesses cautious. Bosses confronted with unpredictable regulatory, ...

This article appears in the February 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. As America prepares to transition to a new presidential administration, I want to take stock of the ...

Kevin Hoover had his pick of the world’s best universities. A budding economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, he had been accepted into Ph.D. programs at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and ...

With the recent emergence of two adversarial geopolitical blocs, the fantasy of a “liberal world order,” which is currently driving President Joe Biden’s foreign economic policy, must be buried. The ...

Dr. James Bridgeforth holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has served as an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech, the University of South Alabama, the University of Southern ...

Larry Summers was handed a lifetime ban by the American Economic Association after details of the former Harvard president and US Treasury Secretary’s connection to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ...

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on Monday to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, both of MIT, and to James Robinson of the University of Chicago. The award cited their research ...