Twenty years ago, Science celebrated “a revolution that is fundamentally altering the way the haves of the world assist the have-nots”: Governments and philanthropies were donating tens of billions of ...

Financialization of healthcare drains our current system of resources it needs to provide care. It occurs when money is siphoned off for private profit through mechanisms such as rent seeking, ...

There are many misconceptions about DeFi (decentralized finance). Perhaps the most important is that Defi wants to replace traditional finance. That is not the case. Rather, DeFi is a way to ...

Financialization refers to the growing influence of financial motives, markets, actors and institutions on both macroeconomic structures and individual lives. In contemporary societies, this process ...

The call to leverage private capital in health care is, on its face, enticing. However, private capital does not prioritize systemwide efficiency or patient needs. Private capital’s growing presence ...

In the economics literature, there are two important lines of thinking about the causes of inequality, with some placing the blame primarily on technological innovation and others emphasizing the role ...

Financialization describes the increasing importance of financial activities and assets in non-financial firms’ behaviour, shifting corporate focus from long-term capital accumulation towards ...

India’s next economic leap may not be driven solely by manufacturing, infrastructure, or digital consumption. It may equally ...