In a recent appearance here at the University of California, Berkeley, Alice Rivlin expressed optimism about the future of economic policymaking in the United States.What Rivlin — who served as vice chair of the US Federal Reserve, director of the White House Office of Management

There are 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to tackle problems including poverty, hunger, disease, inequality, climate change, ecological degradation and many others in between.Clearly, 17 is too many.

According to mainstream economic theory, globalisation tends to “lift all boats” and has little effect on the broad distribution of incomes.But “globalisation” is not the same as the elimination of tariffs and other import barriers that confer rent-seeking advantages to political

According to mainstream economic theory, globalisation tends to “lift all boats” and has little effect on the broad distribution of incomes.But “globalisation” is not the same as the elimination of tariffs and other import barriers that confer rent-seeking advantages to political

In many societies, universities are the main bastions of ideological and intellectual independence.

In December 2015, the US Federal Reserve embarked on a monetary-tightening cycle, by raising the target range for the short-term nominal federal funds rate by 25 basis points (one-quarter of a percentage point).At the time, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) — the Fed body

Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers recently took exception to current US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s views on “artificial intelligence” (AI) and related topics.The difference between the two seems to be, more than anything else, a matter of priorities and emphasis.

Today, the world’s population is, on average, about 20 times richer than it was during the long Agrarian Age.Between 7000 BC and AD 1500, resources were scarce, technological progress was slow and Malthusian pressures kept almost all human populations at a near-subsistence level,

In a recent Vox essay outlining my thinking about US President Donald Trump’s emerging trade policy, I pointed out that a “bad” trade deal such as the North American Free Trade Agreement is responsible for only a vanishingly small fraction of lost US manufacturing jobs over the p