Culture

European Union countries are facing an epic challenge of integrating more than 1 million refugees from conflict zones in the Middle East and beyond.

Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care. She is Professor Emirita of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who has written extensively about the economics of care and reciprocity.

The tragic crisis in Flint, Michigan, where residents have been poisoned by lead contamination, is not just about drinking water. And it’s not just about Flint. It’s about race and class, and the stark contradiction between the American dream of equal rights and opportunity for all and the American nightmare of metastasizing inequality of wealth and power.

Professor Casarico explains why her focus on gender and the “glass ceiling” can help us push forward economic thinking.

Since Aristotle the question about the potential relationship between economic inequality and democratic changes has been studied and debated – but scientifically our ability as researchers to assess and understand how such complex social phenomena may be related is much more limited than recognised.

Can education stop the country’s backward slide?

The United States economy has come apart, with the rich getting richer and workers’ incomes not advancing at all.

Exploring inequality, gender, and the North-South divide.

How much does the standard theory of externalities and public goods really say?

The effect of ethnic violence on electoral results provides useful insights into voter behaviour and the incentives for political parties in democratic societies.

News about a wonderful workshop, “Knowledge Transfer and Its Contexts”

Economist Alicia Girón explains why a feminist perspective is crucial to new economic thinking.

Literary productions offer illustrations of economic theory in action.

Inequality, racism, and violence are the real killers in America.

America’s economic system has failed by not raising living standards for most.