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Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics

Academy of Sciences permanent secretary Hans Ellegren (C), Jakob Svensson (L) and Jan Teorell of the Nobel Assembly sit in front of a screen displaying the laureates (L-R) Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson of the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel during the announcement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on October 14, 2024. (Photo by Christine Olsson/TT / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP) / Sweden OUT
International

Nobel economics prize goes to researchers of prosperity

Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei told the General Assembly that instead of the UN’s “supranational programme of a socialist nature”, the world needs a “freedom agenda”.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Who needs a new economic paradigm?

The limited number of core economic principles, such as supply and demand, make it relatively easy to derive their major implications.
Opinion & Features

Exciting economics is often misguided economics

“We get feedback from the market, from investors,” says Faisal Al-Ibrahim, the Saudi economy and planning minister. “We will do whatever is best for these projects, but also whatever is good for the economy.”
International

Saudi Arabia says economic revamp momentum intact as plans shift

One reason women detest the field is the male chauvinist pig standing in the middle of it, masquerading as the avatar of economic rationality.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Economics is irredeemably sexist

Activists at a rally in Indonesia. The key to defang identity politics is to transmit a fundamental message to voters: the government is working for you, not for elites of some kind or for friends in the party establishment.
Opinion & Features

Economic policies and identity politics

American economist Claudia Goldin, who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in economics. Goldin’s work underscores a point that feminists have long emphasised: women do not have the luxury of separating the personal from the professional.
Opinion & Features

‘Women’s economics’ goes mainstream 

Afghanistan (R) represents a potentially valuable addition to the global Belt and Road initiative, given its natural reserves including copper and gold.
International

Taleban official in Beijing seeks to deepen economic ties with China

Economist Milton Friedman at a conference in Oct 2003 Friedman was one of the leading scholars of the Chicago School of ideas -- which championed free markets and minimum government intervention.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Laying Chicago economics to rest

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