This article appears in the April 2023 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Americans have been hammered for decades with an economic message that amounts to this: When wealthy ...

Economic freedom is a vital component of a prosperous society. Defined as the ability to make economic decisions without ...

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The Budget Lab at Yale aims to address gaps in current economic analysis. Founded last year by three former members of the Biden administration — Yale Law School professor Natasha Sarin ’11, ...

Economics assumes we behave like chimps, but humans are far more cooperative—and our economic models must catch up.

Crucially, this is not just academic debate. The UK has already experimented with elements of new economics, for example, ...

When Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in Economics last October, many of her colleagues rejoiced. The prestigious award endows the Harvard University academic with an aura of respectability that few ...

This brief outlines the consequences of corporate actors consolidating their power to act against the public good, and how Black and brown communities can come together to collectively advance and ...