If the human capital and quality of life theories are right, the Midwest would be a half-century into a century-long period ...

James Morley receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Welcome to our series on economic theories that are changing the way we think. Today, James Morley explains how the very concept of ...

The American Economic Review is a general-interest economics journal. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in the economics profession and is ...

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Economic development theory usually identifies a critical stage in most countries’ successful development, based on both the examples of East Asia and the U.S. According to Internationalization of ...

When Guillermo Calvo was a young student in Buenos Aires in the late 1950s, he despaired of ever understanding economics. There was a lot of talk about economics at home because his father worked for ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. They knew their letter would fall on deaf ears in Washington, D ...

What’s the theory behind my economic forecast? In simple language, it’s complicated. My forecast is judgmental rather than coming from an econometric model. I begin with a “bottoms-up” prediction of ...

As I’ve noted in several previous columns for Mainebiz, SBA’s Administrator Karen Mills is a longtime advocate for the cluster economic development theory, popularized by Harvard Business School’s ...

President Donald Trump recently proposed a $1.5 trillion infrastructure program. This is a good idea with bipartisan support, assuming we can finance it. But infrastructure alone will not produce the ...

Despite their opposing ideologies, they may well offer valuable insights into the future of country Just a few years ago, China's rise to superpower status seemed inexorable. Today, many independent ...

In an increasingly digital environment where data and advanced analytics challenge traditional economic modeling, the Bank of England is applying a fusion of machine learning (ML) with economic theory ...