If we look back to philosophers such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx, discussions of political economy were deeply intertwined ...

The University of Geneva appointed Charles Gottlieb as Visiting Professor at the Geneva School of Economics and Management, effective 1 March 2025. Within the GSEM, he joins the Institute of Economics ...

A decade and a half after the global financial crisis, austerity has returned. But this time it is not just an economically ...

Note that one is not inherently better or worse than the other: In both towns, the public purse was used so that every resident ended up with at least 10 potatoes. Moreover, no amount of ...

Milei owes his success (so far) to the distributional politics of permanent inflation. The Peronists lost their long hold on ...

However, a critical examination of our tax system reveals a policy decision that has significantly contributed to this purported fiscal constraint — the over-inflation of personal income tax (PIT) ...

Following the rise of right-wing populism throughout the 2010s and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, center-left ...