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Economics was dominated by theory until pioneering research created a role for evidence
The existence of digital currencies challenges the idea that money can only be created by nation-states
Martin Wolf on the power of vested interests in today’s rent-extracting economy
The reality of John Maynard Keynes’s prediction of a 15-hour working week
In the old days, relative performance didn’t matter — now it’s everything
Analysis of macroeconomic theory suggests substantial ignorance of how economies work
The Bloomsbury Group is ever present in a new exhibition of the artists’s work
Artificial intelligence has the potential to reach places inaccessible to us
or genetic modificationsFear of the unknown has had had no moderating influence on central banksrecent, , writes William White
How do you sift through 794 economic blog posts in a single morning? Giles Wilkes ascends the landslide
The country’s economists have a quasi-religious fixation on the ‘black zero’, writes Peter Bofinger
If you had described your iPhone in 1976, Friedman would not have understood you
Expect more unintended consequences of central bank policies, warns John Plender
Index targeting is only convenient for advisers and consultants
‘Keynes was right to predict that we would be working less but overestimated for how long that trend would continue’
In elite circles it is becoming vulgar to flaunt workaholism and that view may be spreading
What matters is not whether the world will be well managed but whether calamity will be avoided
First editions of James Bond novels and other modern classics feature in price index by Stanley Gibbons
Reasonable dialogue requires a recognition of the tensions between short and long-term interests
To accept that one may at times be wrong is a mark not of stupidity but of intelligence
