Économie

In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be po …

In the ruins of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, progressives the world over clamoured to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of small-state, …

Myths of Capitalismshows that tenets of the capitalist belief system the sanctity of private property, the social benefits of profit, etc. do not hold up under empirical scrutiny. It also addresses s …

For more than half a century, East Asia has been the most dynamic and resilient economic region in the world. Following Japan’s success in its post-World War Two reconstruction and industrialisation, …

Originally published in “Cornhill” magazine in 1860, “Unto This Last” is a series of four essays on the politics of economics and capitalism by the prominent English art critic of the Victorian era J …

In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a ‘quiet revolution.’ In Playing the Market, he traces the p …

Calculates and expounds on the costs to individual Americans of the War on Terror Are Americans in denial about the costs of the War on Terror? In The Real Price of War , Joshua S. Goldstein argues t …

"Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy" is a collection of essays written by the famous British philosopher and economist, John Stuart Mill. In the first essay, Mill exami …

Bank bailouts in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the Great Recession brought into sharp relief the power that the global financial sector holds over national politic …

Prodded by economists in the 1970s, corporate directors began adding stock options and bonuses to the already-generous salaries of CEOs with hopes of boosting their companies’ fortunes. Guided by lar …