By shielding Washington from accountability, the 2008 cover-up institutionalized systemic moral hazard and permanently ...

Scholars have long debated what sparked Europe’s economic surge in the mid-18th century. That debate took center stage recently at the University of Chicago, where an expert panel from the Harris ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. President Donald Trump wants Americans to see history his way, historians be damned.

The history of economic thought traces the evolution of ideas about production, distribution and exchange from antiquity to the present. Its narrative begins with early reflections on wealth in ...

IN RECENT YEARS the British economy has tended to be in the news for the wrong reasons. Growth has been soggy, inflation has been high and living standards have been squeezed. Over the past 15 years ...

Underlying economic and market factors mattered in previous presidential rematches. They may help President Biden, even if polls aren’t showing that so far. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes ...

The trajectory of economic development in Africa is deeply intertwined with its historical legacy, encompassing pre‐colonial kingdoms, the trans‐Saharan and Atlantic slave trades, colonial partition ...