Global Economy

The Fed and the Treasury are betting on the fact that the dollar will remain the world’s reserve currency forever, and that the US can inflate with

One of the most common ways in which cronyism manifests itself in Serbia is when professional degrees and employment positions are awarded based on political party membership, and not on the basis of professional expertise.

The Argentine government has a habit of spending without restraint and then trying to cheat its creditors.

Sidney Lens, by his analysis of the roots of the Cold War In The Futile Crusade, Anti-Communism as American Credo, challenges observers of

Confining our attention to large scale slavery, we find that it is historically quite a rare phenomenon.

Booms and busts are brewing in the real economy, but computers that can quickly solve math problems won’t tell you much about how business cycles w

In this new offering, Rojas tends to downplay the existence of any net capital movements and to argue that, if such net capital movements existed at all, they operate only in favor of the capitalist West. 

We have provided a reconsideration of the role of the economist in economic development. In doing so, we first considered the evolution of development economics

It is with great trepidation and anticipation that we review Robert Shiller’s new book, The Subprime Solution. Trepidation as to the causes of the problem, which were expected to take a behavioral spin.