Economics

What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you re not counted, you don t count.

Harshly exploited migrant labour plays a fundamental role in the political economy of contemporary capitalism.

'Value' seems like an elusive and abstract concept.

The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies.

Despite its oil wealth, the Middle East and North Africa is economically stagnating.

What is life like for workers in the gig economy?

Looming trade wars and rising nationalism have stirred troubling memories of the 1930s.

Consumption used to be a disease.

Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise.

For almost two decades, China has claimed that its expanding economy benefits Europe, stimulating European growth, exports, and employment.

With protectionist sentiment and economic nationalism on the rise, international trade and how it is governed is at the heart of some of the most important contemporary economic and political debates.

The idea that the people have a right to shape political decisions through democratic means is widely accepted.

Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness.

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, central banks created trillions of dollars of new money, and poured it into financial markets.

Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress.

Much of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work.

Should human organs be bought and sold?

From their shadowy origins in Bitcoin to their use by multinational corporations, cryptocurrencies and blockchains are remaking the rules of digital media and society.

The recent downturn in the Chinese economy has become a focal point of global attention, with some analysts warning that China is edging dangerously close to economic meltdown.

Amartya Sen is one of the world s best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe.

Almost everyone has heard of Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics and author of Wealth of Nations.

Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered capitalism as a fact of life.

Although economic inequality provokes widespread disquiet, its supposed necessity is rarely questioned.

The economies of the eurozone countries are plagued by multiple crises, which cast major doubts over the future of the euro.

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age and it still does.

The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise.

Over the last decade, the world s largest corporations from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery.

Chocolate has long been a favorite indulgence.

During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries.

No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky.

John Maynard Keynes is the 20th century s greatest economist.

What is the connection between the sleaziness of Harvey Weinstein s business meetings and the passionless doctrine of neoclassical economics?

Wages for the majority have been stagnant for decades, but a lucky few have enjoyed a pay bonanza.

Austerity has dominated the policy agenda in the past decade.

Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money.

Why did the West become so rich?

The supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change.

We live in a culture of credit.

In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as capitalism, upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique.

Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers.

Today, the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago.

Labor is the source of all wealth.

Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market.

Advocated (and attacked) by commentators across the political spectrum, paying every citizen a basic income regardless of their circumstances sounds utopian.

We are living in a time of extreme inequality: America s three richest people now own as much wealth as the bottom half of the population.

Marx's critique of political economy is vital for understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism.

Governments should spend no more than their tax income.

Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as self-employed .

GDP is much more than a simple statistic.

The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises.