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Our economic model relied on a bottomless supply of cheap workers. Firms must now invest to boost productivity, says Larry Elliott, the Guardian’s economics editor

Survey shows 80 per cent of retailers planning to increase the price of products

Hosted for the first time in the MENA region, the 44th International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Conference in Riyadh reviewed the risks of volatility in global oil and gas markets. Participants at the summit also discussed threats to future opportunities offered by the hydrogen economy. Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman,…

Greg Owen took to Twitter to complain about his experience at The Red Lion Wetherspoons in Gatwick Airport's North Terminal

Editorial: Economics affects us all, yet is too often treated as an abstract field fenced in by impenetrable rules

THE BBC has “no solution” to the impartiality problem posed by the difference between English and Scottish politics, an in-depth report into…

Too many journalists don’t get ‘basic economics’, an internal review says. Imagine the effect that’s had on UK politics, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

Technology to assist football referees was introduced to ensure lineball decisions were correct. But at what cost to the game of chance?

JAKARTA: Indonesia is formulating incentives for exporters to keep their foreign-exchange earnings onshore for at least three months, its chief economics minister said on Thursday.

Where the US leads in using state aid and subsidies, the EU is now following. But the UK will need a change of mindset, says the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott

In studies, forecasts and recommendations to governments, markets are seen as capable of processing so-called rational information. Economists claim that firms’ market prices result from rational expectation about their future monetary flows and intangible assets not accounted by bookkeeping, which, however, would enable those future monetary flows to occur.