In 2014, India elected its first absolute majority government in 30 years; the majority leader Narendra Modi’s right-wing populist party was elected largely on the promise of economic development.

John Maynard Keynes famously wrote that “the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than commonly understood. Practical men ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former professor of economics and senior adviser at the Bank of England. Today’s Economics ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sara Kamali, University of California Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) In September ...

If you’ve been on Twitter recently, you may have stumbled across arguments about critical race theory, or CRT — what it is, whether it’s good or bad, whether it even exists at all. The term has surged ...

What are the 50 most important economic theories of the last century? That’s the question a publisher recently asked me to ponder for a book they are developing. I’ve noodled on this over the past ...

Americans across the political spectrum do not recognize their own country anymore. Instead, they often experience themselves as strangers or outsiders to their own land. At the same time there is ...