Economists

From breakthroughs in behavioural economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. But ha...

The first solo female recipient of the economics prize has blazed a trail by identifying the obstacles to gender equality – and how to overcome them

CGS-CIMB Securities Singapore has appointed veteran economist Song Seng Wun as Singapore economic adviser.

INVESTORS should not expect an acceleration in China’s economic recovery, nor a pop in markets, even if talked-about stimulus measures are implemented, economists and analysts said.

IT IS possible, contrary to the predictions of most economists, that the US will get through this disinflationary period and make the proverbial “soft landing”. This should prompt a more general recon...

Markets have a better record at predicting downturns — but sometimes the inevitable never happens

Science fiction opens the mind to other ways the world could be.

AFTER I wrote a newsletter last month on how economists’ views differ from those of ordinary people, I got emails to the effect of, “If economists are so smart, why ain’t they rich?” I’m not an econom...

SINGAPORE may have skirted a technical recession - defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction - in Q3, according to flash estimates from the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) on Monday morn...