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This approach to environmental action produces results that can be sustained over time because they are aligned with real-world economic incentives.

Stanford economist Peter Blair Henry said he and Harris have both urged the Jamaican government to harness the power of free markets.

“​​For now, we think the broader macro data flow does not point to recession," Bank of America's economics team wrote Monday.

Economic journalist and broadcaster labelled ‘the cleverest young man in England’

Tributes paid to one of the UK’s foremost economics commentators who was also ambassador to Washington

Getting into a taxi with a stranger at 11pm could have been an awkward experience. Especially when the journey ahead was due to take one-and-a-half hours. Fortunately, when I arrived at Pisa airport last week and jumped into a car to be driven to Siena by Riccardo Chiantini, sitting next…

“Freedom is a core human value,” writes Joseph Stiglitz in his new book The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society. “But many of freedom’s advocates seldom ask what the idea really means. Freedom for whom? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s?”

The athletes have crossed the finish line of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. Now economists are trying their best to accurately assess the economic impact of this global event on the city and on France. Our guest, Wladimir Andreff, is one of them. He is a specialist of sports…

The former president claimed Harris was a "Marxist" during a discussion about unemployment

Where to study is just as important as what – especially when it comes to finding a job

Means-testing will hit up to 2 million people. Rachel Reeves would be wise to admit she was wrong, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott