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Beckert's book, a sweeping 1,300-page history, synthesizes bits and pieces of the academic literature to recount the ...

There are thinkers throughout history who offer grand overarching explanations of economic growth. Karl Marx was an economic ...

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Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and ...

"Over the past 40 years, the field of microeconomics has gone through a revolution in real-world applications, yet the ...

The acceleration principle is an economic concept that attributes fluctuations in capital investment to changes in consumer demand.

Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation, and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40 years as an economics columnist for The Washington ...

He was a familiar byline in Newsweek and The Washington Post for decades, explaining the intricacies of economic policy in reader-friendly vernacular. By Michael S. Rosenwald Robert J. Samuelson, an ...