Scholars have long debated what sparked Europe’s economic surge in the mid-18th century. That debate took center stage recently at the University of Chicago, where an expert panel from the Harris ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. President Donald Trump wants Americans to see history his way, historians be damned.

The history of economic thought traces the evolution of ideas about production, distribution and exchange from antiquity to the present. Its narrative begins with early reflections on wealth in ...

Uncertainty is not as easily measured as traditional indicators like growth or inflation, but economists have built some reliable proxies. One of the best-known gauges is the Economic Policy ...

The trajectory of economic development in Africa is deeply intertwined with its historical legacy, encompassing pre‐colonial kingdoms, the trans‐Saharan and Atlantic slave trades, colonial partition ...