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

Tariffs do not necessarily push the balance between income and spending in one direction or the other, which is why they don’t improve the trade balance or manufacturing employment.

According to Godongwana, the SRD grant alone requires an additional R35.2 billion in funding to be extended until March 2026.

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

Comparing the austerity experiments of Europe, Argentina and the US to the present day as a necessary hardship traces its ...

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 ...

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) issued around €4.2 million in payments farmers across a range of ...

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 ...

The proposed increase in VAT has become a major contention within the GNU, threatening the coalition’s stability before the ...

The proposed increase in VAT has become a major contention within the GNU, threatening the coalition’s stability before the ...

The electrification of the car fleet is one of the solutions proposed to combat greenhouse gas emissions. Swiss economists ...