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We revisit the rationale for place-based policies using a canonical urban framework with agglomeration spillovers. We derive six main lessons. First, the spatial allocation is inefficient even when ...

And the price beats everything. This classic treatise on monetary theory remains the definitive book on the foundations of monetary theory, and the first really great integration of microeconomics and ...

Joseph Stiglitz’s new book, The Road to Freedom, joins a queue arguing that capitalism is based on exploiting the weak and wreaking havoc on workers, the environment and our ethical system. Remarkably ...

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Standard economic theory is struggling. It relies on faulty assumptions about the world, and it hasn't done the best job predicting the economic impact of major world events, including the global ...

The economics and data editor of Sky News in Britain travels the world in this study of how six crucial materials—copper, iron, lithium, oil, salt and sand—have altered human history and ...