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By Daron Acemoglu   CHICAGO – In the Middle Ages, Italian city-states led the European “commercial revolution” with innovations in finance,...

By Gordon Brown   LONDON – After three days of pomp and ceremony that presented an image of a seemingly...

By Alzbeta Klein   WASHINGTON, DC – On the evening of March 14, tropical cyclone Idai slammed into the southeastern coast...

By Joseph E. Stiglitz   NEW YORK – What kind of economic system is most conducive to human wellbeing? That...

By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala & Brahima Coulibaly   WASHINGTON, DC – The current backlash against globalization, most notably from working-class citizens in...

By Robert H. Dugger      ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA – In a recent Project Syndicate commentary, James K. Galbraith of the...

By Kemal Derviş   WASHINGTON, DC – Technological waves have always driven social and political change and progress, along with...

By Michael Spence   MILAN – For much of the post-World War II period, economic policy has focused on unemployment....

By Jeffrey D. Sachs     NEW YORK – NATIONAL POLITICS in the United States has become enslaved to macroeconomic...

By Barry Eichengreen     FRANKFURT – FIVE YEARS AGO, the French economist Thomas Piketty made a splash with his...